Our goal in the regular season is not to impress fans or break scoring records… it is to obtain the number 1 seed. We are nearly tied for that, with an easier schedule than the ravens coming up.
Has anyone considered, that Andy KNOWS Rice is our best receiver. And he is saving him AND McKinnon AND possibly Richie James for a late season playoff push?
Why give away our hand in November to win a game when we could save those surprises for the annual Arrowhead invitational (AFC Championship)?
Its not a surprise though. Every team looks at basic stats like this. Every team can tell who the best members of a particular position are. Rice being the best receiver would surprise no one.
We just lost to the Eagles because we over relied on two highly unreliable players - Watson and MVS. Look at any other top tier team - Eagles, Cowboys, 49ers, Bengals, etc. They do not spend a bunch of targets on WR3s. You feed 2-3 players most of your attempts, and spend 20-40% on your WR3s. That’s normal. The Chiefs should be targeting either Kelce, Rice, or our third best receiver - probably Toney - 60-80% of the time. Everyone else gets the remaining attempts. That’s exactly what we did last year with Kelce, Smith-Schuster, and MVS.
Right now our 3 most unreliable receivers - MVS, Watson, and Moore - are getting about 35% of attempts among our WRs and TEs. That’s just for our 3 most unreliable players. That’s just too much for those guys. You need a receiver to be “the guy” for Mahomes who is on the field 90%+ of snaps. That’s Rice.