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Originally Posted by Red Dawg
We have a ton of money in the OL but the player's suck. Veach has failed in this area and now we have hardly any money and still for the 7th year in a row need an LT.
That sucks and there is no good answer.
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The Chiefs are currently paying 3 players on the OL.
Joe Thuney - excellent and worth the money. Got exposed and worked last night (there's a reason he is not a LT and it showed in the way he got dominated by a long DE).
Creed Humphrey - excellent and worth the money. Best C in football.
Jawan Taylor - had some struggles last night but was good in pass protection during the Super Bowl run last year and in the run to the Super Bowl this year.
The other two spots have been cheap bandaids.
There's space between "Veach sucks" and "dang it, that didn't quite work out." Which is where we should all be living.
I have a hard time accepting "Veach failed" when the approach since Fisher went down has been to take swing after swing.
He traded a 1st for an established, younger vet and then tried to sign him long-term. Didn't work for the player, he moved on, and honestly it was for the best. (That was also an atrocious T draft, so the 1st they shipped out for him can't be squabbled over too much, especially considering the Chiefs got a pick back that was used to take a 4-year starter in Nick Bolton).
When that T walked, the Chiefs pivoted to replacing him by giving that money to the best available pass-blocking T on the market. He hasn't performed to expectations, primarily in the penalties area. Getting targeted on national TV by Cris Collinsworth put a target on his back that he hasn't shaken.