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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. 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.
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The critical mistake was subtracting $$$$ from an already weak position group and not replacing. And no, Rice is not a direct replacement of JuJu. That was what people came up with later when Rice looked good.
We needed at least 1 vet chain mover. Many of us brought this up in FA, then early season, then the trade deadline.
And all the response was no need. Someone that has never done that before will emerge. So even if Rice gets 12 targets a week moving forward he can not replace that this year.
When your QB has zero WR's they can trust that doesn't help the offense. Rice will get there at some point. But he hasn't been that guy week to week yet.
Then you have the issue of numbers. If the plan is to develop young players to become good pros then you have to actually use draft PICKS.
They spent 1 pick on WR last draft. That is incredibly low for a team going with a youth movement philosophy.
I think we got the worst of all words. No vets that can play and no group to develop. The young WR corp is one dude, Rice.
The Skyy Moore stuff is very scary because lots of teams miss on draft picks. It's doubling down on it when you can see the guy in the pros.
I have no idea what they are looking at or seeing with the kid.