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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
What does this even mean? Who in this thread is throwing these people under the bus? Acknowledging that Mahomes might not be playing at the same level as last year isn’t throwing him under the bus; it’s having an actual conversation about what’s really happening. And I for one haven’t made the slightest mention of Nagy or Embree and I don’t think you’ll find many others in this thread here who have challenged you doing that either.
But people are trying to find blame. It’s what fans do. Butker misses some FGs? Blame him. Then blame Toub. Then blame Townsend. It’s the nature of the beast.
And finally, Veach made a mistake? Seriously? The season isn’t even ****ing over and we control our own destiny for the 1 seed. His process was fine. The results are the results.
If we lose in the playoffs and it’s clearly on the WRs, then by all means, then maybe you can justifiably make that statement.
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No I don’t put you in the same camp. I don’t see you participating in the criticism and can respect that too much of it bothers you. But there is another camp that’s been hell bent on a narrative that we had a great wr strategy going into the season and that anyone who disagreed is a dipshit. Now that there’s pretty widespread agreement that most of these WRs aren’t actually any good, rather than admit they had the wrong read and that maybe people like me were kinda right about it, we hear a bunch of blame deflecting.
And because wr critics were branded as cynics and everyone else pro veach, I think they’ve slipped a lot of this under your nose. That while some of the blame on mahomes and kelce is deserved, there is an added notch of criticism that is intended to make WRs look less bad by making other players like mahomes look much worse. You may not participate in the nagy or embree hate threads, but I also don’t see many people defending them either. You say we will always find blame. I’m just pointing out that both sides are doing it and it doesn’t make it less cynical just because one side is choosing to spread the blame to multiple groups
Yes, veach made a mistake. But it is one mistake surrounded by an otherwise brilliant roster construction and we still have a great shot at winning it all. We’d be downright unstoppable if we had addressed the issue, but we’re still damn good. I have tremendous trust in Reid to make it work while also wishing we had done better. Just because we made a mistake doesn’t mean it’s a fatal one. We adapt for now and we fix it later. No sweat.