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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
this isn’t just some ordinary rebuild where a great qb is proven a fraud because he can’t win without elite weapons. These were deliberate choices we made to make this season unnecessarily frustrating for mahomes.
I mean don’t even get me started about deciding our best path was to turn mahomes into a game manager. But that aside, after our choices were made it was incompetent to put him through 14 weeks of a gazillion versions of WR rotations. This isn’t just about elevating bad talent or mahomes not finding ways to get bad guys the ball anyway. Mahomes has been plenty patient with the drops. I’ve never once seen him even a little mad at rashee for occasional drops. He is frustrated because of wr mental mistakes that have become a laughingstock of the league that turn slam dunks into costly catastrophic errors.
we are at a crossroad of 2 choices. We can either continue on with this science experiment and just tell him to ****ing deal with it. Or we can finally after 14 damn weeks give him something steady to work with the rest of the season. We finally looked like we had some rhythm if not for boneheaded mistakes. So stop leaning on boneheads for the rest of the season
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The 'deliberate choices' were to lean into attempts to strengthen his protection and depend on improvements from a 1st round pick and a pair of 2nd round picks.
They're completely defensible and, in fact, wholly necessary given his contract.
It's no 'science experiment' - it's a reality born of the cap and the fact that some of those choices simply didn't work like they'd hoped they would. That's not making things unnecessarily difficult.
And yes, this is
absolutely an ordinary rebuild. And to sit here and act like most rebuilds are as seamless as the OL rebuild in 2021 was is just the height of hubris. The overwhelming number of them have stops and starts. This one looked to be built upon a WR room that won a Super Bowl the year prior and saw a notable young talent added to it. There's nothing about what the Chiefs attempted that was inherently unfair or unreasonable of the Chiefs to ask of their generational quarterback.
Y'all just don't want to acknowledge that equally great QBs have gone through roster issues around them every bit as precarious as this one. There's nothing unprecedented about this.