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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
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.
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So I've mostly been in the WR suck camp but I've mostly not been in the Veach made a mistake camp.
Outside of whiffing on Skyy (every GM has busts), what were any other of his clear mistakes based on the information he had at the time?
There's a thing called a salary cap and a draft.
If Toney had been reasonably healthy, he might have won some games for us and most of you would be talking about V's brilliance. It's still certainly possible that Toney might be a game changer in the post season. Or outside of last years post season, he might be a gamble that didn't pay off.
When you are trying to have a SB level team, year after year, you can't stick with a conservative strategy even when anchored by Mahomes. Especially at Mahomes salary. You certainly can't afford to pay your SB level team market rate or only draft high floor/low ceiling players.
I guess you could have gone more all-in this year when you have CJ and Kelce and just live with rebuilding years later.
But otherwise, without hindsight, Veach has to roll the dice on all his decisions. So he went cheaper at WR. That a dice roll doesn't go his way is not automatically a 'mistake'.
This is more like a poker game where you got to play the odds. For instance, how much investment is your QB2 worth? Well, how many games in the middle of the season do you expect Mahomes to miss?
He paid a premium for Taylor at RT, but I think that was reasonable based on not having either starting tackle at the start of FA.