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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
But it doesn’t at all hang together why they wouldn’t have gotten a bandaid knowing Reid doesn’t like playing rookies. 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 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
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Well, it's a punchline at this point given the way things worked out, but they did sign James, who was productive last season in NY, was a dependable, good hands, first down player with good advanced metrics. Of course, he mised most of the season. I figured when they signed him that was the insurance policy in case Moore didn't work out.
Clearly, Moore did not work out, and James spent most of the year on IR.
I liked Thielen, and said as much back then.