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Originally Posted by tredadda
KC’s GM is also clearly better at avoiding bad contracts and better at drafting. As such he’s keeping this team young while still winning. I am pretty sure KC has one of the youngest rosters in the league.
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He's leveraged his generational QB to his fullest extent.
Think about the 'bad' contracts we've had.
Clark, Hitchens, Watkins are the three big ones. Mathieu played to his deal, I won't include him.
But those three? Those were guys he signed to take pressure off Mahomes and try to put the hammer down a bit when we had a cheap QB.
And they were all mistakes.
When he's not had to be desperate because he's had a God playing QB, he's been smart about how he's parsed out spending and cap space. And to be fair, it's a LOT easier to build a winning team when you have that guy playign QB for you.
The teams that have made the biggest mistakes did so by taking homerun swings trying to close the gap between themselves and the Chiefs.
To use a different analogy - the Chiefs are running in clean air. We don't have anyone in front of us buffeting the air and messing things up for us. We're in the lead and command of the race and our pace. Makes it a hell of alot easier to do the smart thing.
Credit is still due for not making unforced errors, but make no mistake, Mahomes makes Brett's job a fair bit easier for him.