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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief
We have drafted WR's... and Veach even tried to trade up. Rice is looking like he will be a good pick and Skyy none of the recievers taken after the 1st round run in 2022 are really better. Pickens has better numbers, but he was probably not on our board, and his attitude is starting to reflect the hestitation from teams. Could this team get him in line, maybe, but that's a big but... Free agency this year was stagnate due to Jones hold out, and we shouldnt push cap down the road.
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I mean we can try to justify it all we want. Hopkins was sitting right there for us wanting to come here, and it would’ve taken a small shifting of dollars to make it happen.
We can try to blame it on mahomes or coaching or cap. The fact is the chiefs thought this unit was good enough and they were wrong. They bet on guys who they had lots of scouting on and bet huge on guys they had seen every day in practice. They saw Toney and skyy in practice and bet on those 2 guys being our top 2 WR options. They had plenty of info to recognize their limitations. If we knew there was a hole we wouldn’t have hesitated to bring in a bandaid. This wasn’t a resources issue. This was misreading our WR room and putting bets in the wrong places.
It’s a forgivable mistake. But I wish we’d stop dancing around the obvious conclusion that veach made a rare miscalculation.