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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
No, I don't think that was anybody's argument.
The argument was, and still is, that when you're paying your QB this much of your cap, you need to draft and develop your weapons. You can't afford to pay market price for them.
And that's still true, regardless of whether these particular players panned out or not.
The goal was always to give him good weapons.
Sustained success depends on drafting well and developing talent. These guys all shit the bed simultaneously, which is why I'm looking hard at Nagy and Embree because this just doesn't make any other sense.
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But it doesn’t at all hang together why they wouldn’t have gotten a bandaid knowing Reid doesn’t like playing rookies. I get the draft strategy and can’t be mad about getting rice. But what do we do at other positions? We drafted a first round DE and got a bandaid in omenihu. We paid jawaan Taylor to play LT and instead of playing wanya at RT, we bandaided with Donovan smith. In each of these instances we eased our rookie in. But at WR, the position where Reid is notoriously resistant to playing rookies, we didn’t?
So we obviously built our plans as if rashee wasn’t going to be a primary option this year. We should have known skyy at best projected as more a slot option and Mvs was purely a clearout guy. Which means we centered our entire strategy around Toney being a wr1 even given his injury history. Because there is nobody on this roster other than rice who ever projected to be a #1 option or target eater. That is somewhat self scouting but I think we also got a little cute thinking we had found a loophole where we can save a lot of money by not spending a fortune on WRs. And last years success reinforced that belief. But no matter, we learn from it and we won’t make that mistake next year
As much as we want to say we didn’t see it coming, we should have. Even if we thought they had potential We should’ve known the chemistry implications of constant rotations and changing depth charts and the hole at the top of the depth chart was obvious even if we are shocked by regression of everyone else in the middle/bottom.