When people talk about the Chiefs needing to add Wide Receiver depth, a lot of other Chiefs fans will respond that “this is the exact same offense -JuJu +Rashee that got us a Superbowl last year, we don’t need it” which is incredibly misguided because the league changes every single year.
The Buccaneers won a superbowl (against us I’ll add). Proceeded to bring back every single player and coach from that SB team, add in the draft and free agency, then lost in the Divisional to a Rams team that went all in. What was good enough last year, may not be good this year.
Players develop, players age, the tape adds up. The offensive scheming is not at the level it was last year. Kelce is a year older and having a down year. 2 of our WR bets in Skyy and Toney have not worked out. And it’s hard not to see that players that were integral to our SB run can’t even make the field on much much worse teams
The sky isn’t falling, its not panic mode. We’re still leading the AFC and you still have to believe that Andy, Veach, and Mahomes will do everything they think is necessary to win another SB. And if nothing happens on the deadline today I’ll still trust they made the right choice, but WR is a real need and people aren’t being fair weather fans for pointing it out.
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It’s not a fair weather fan thing. It’s an availability of resources thing.
Cap space is a major factor. Yes there’s the possibility of shuffling money to bonuses and spreading it out over 5 years, etc. But that becomes like a sugar rush economy situation where you hope to enjoy the quick high then hamstring yourself for the long term, and the more you do it the worse it gets.
Plus - Andy’s offense is notoriously hard for WRs to digest and takes a good bit of time, even for vets. Other than using someone for a few situational gadget plays (like Toney late last season).
I’m 110% for improving the team anywhere and everywhere we can. But it seems like an awful lot of people think this is just like a game of Madden where you can basically trade for anyone, and real life just doesn’t work that way.
WR is a need. There’s nothing wrong with pointing that out.
The recent criticism in this thread is toward people that are overreacting to just that alone (like KC has never had WR problems in the past, when it was almost a constant issue in the era pre-Mahomes), or acting like the sky is falling if we don’t pick up a tried-and-true elite WR immediately that’s going to help us win out the rest of the season and carry us to another Super Bowl win.
The chicken littles around here are not adding anything of value to the WR discussion. They’re just flooding the sub with multiple posts all screaming about the same thing.
Kelce through 8 games
DNP
26 yards
69 yards
60 yards
67 yards
124 yards
179 yards
58 yards
2 good games…Out of 8
Yeah he’s declining
The numbers don’t back that up.
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 DNP 121 76 50 88 6 26 51 109 90 107 109 69 58 104 87 89 114 60 92 23 70 85 78 67 25 57 108 70 100 124 108 99 65 58 61 179 98 65 31 44 95 58 106 27 109 63 79 83.3ypg 82.4ypg 70ypg 76.3ypg 75.5ypg 80.3ypg
Yards per game do not count games he didn’t play in at all.
So he’s actually slightly better than what his best year was on a per-game basis.
He’s in his 6th season of Mahomes throwing him the ball. If you take his total yards through 8 games it comes out to 72ypg, meaning it’s not even his worst first 8 weeks of those 6 years…and it’s in 7 games.