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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Let's also remember the extraordinary amount of hindsight necessary.
And not just the 'well you have to use hindsight to see this years WR corps would suck' but rather 'you didn't know Hopkins would be a FA during the initial wave of free agency...'
By the time the Cardinals had cut Hopkins, the money had been spent. We'd signed Omenihu, drafted Rice, signed Smith. I absolutely believe that the Chiefs intended to sign Hopkins with money freed up from a Jones extension - didn't happen that way.
"Veach mishandled this" assumes a degree of omniscience here. It's just dumb.
You play the cards you have as you have them. You go out there and say "Nah, I'm going to slow-play the DL and the OT position just in case Hopkins becomes available..." and all that does is discourage the Cardinals from cutting him and you may end up in a situation where you HAVE to trade for him and suddenly his agents play hardball because you gave up draft capital to get him.
There was simply no way to ever know that Hopkins was going to be out there at the price point he was when those initial signings were made.
Jakobi Myers is literally the only real gripe from the off-season.
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This post is dumb.
Whether DHop was available or not, they needed to add a vet WR that could play.
Omniscience not necessary, anyone with a few brain cells firing could see it. And DHop was talked about as a guy that could come free WAY before he was signed.
They also could have just gave Cardinals a pick and secured him. Even if they wanted to wait till he was released they had options.
Simply convert 15 million of Mahomes roster bonus into a war chest and have it ready for him OR someone else at the trade deadline. Not being ready to sign a vet WR when they had nothing but MVS paid was poor planning and roster management.
Having a dependable target opposite Kelce to take pressure off was more important than signing a 3rd pass rusher or backup defensive players.