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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
This is ultimately where I have to get to - the team has blown a couple first round picks in the last 5 years and it's been fine.
But every time they do they get just a little closer to the pack. To where a few weeks of scattershot play cost them a bye or HFA and now they have to work just a little harder to get to where they want to be.
And as HoF throughput like Jones and Kelce age out while the home run 2022 draft class gets more expensive, they get closer and closer to being ordinary + Pat Mahomes.
Which is still a damn nice place to be. But it makes your margins week to week and season that much tighter.
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But the blown picks weren't actually the top choices by Veach. Mahomes was banging the table for CEH and it was at the time a "luxury" pick to many, so they did it. FAU was taken in the draft in KC and Lamar wanted a pick and nobody would trade down, so we took the local kid. This isn't the case with this, it's a calculated risk by Reid, Veach and the medical staff. A far cry from the other two.