To add, there’s much more value in getting a multi-year player than a one-year rental. Chiefs have been living year-to-year at WR for years which seems an especially bad approach for a notoriously complex offense. Plus WR room is barren next year
Overpay for long-term solutions
The painfully obvious takeaways from yesterday:
* Butker released
* Fire Dave Toub
* Worthy's role should be diminished immediately
* Jack Cochrane should be sent into the Sun
* Overpay for a Wide Receiver that matters now and into the future. Who cares what it costs.
I gotta wonder what the Chiefs would have gotten for #95 if they traded him instead of gave him the new extension a couple years ago.
Maybe it was a different NFL, different comp for a trade, but...
Keep in mind, prior to tearing his ACL last season, ONL was leading the league in pass rush win rate among all DTs. It was a small sample, but if he’s able to come back with that juice, that is huge.
talked about this on the pod this week but it’s unforgivable that Andy’s system is simultaneously both 1) extremely hard for receivers to learn and 2) not actually giving the players in it a significant, tangible schematic advantage
that’s just a bad system!
Isn’t it crazy how teams with far better WR situations than KC (Niners assuming Evans gets healthy, Steelers, Texans) seem far more willing to try and improve their WR situations?
I have never seen a team hate that they have developed decent young talent more than the Chiefs lol.
CRW has been solid every time he’s played but they playing shredded knee Sneed over him cause he “knows the system”.
That Bo Nix run reminded of something I was thinking about before this game: We’ve basically all forgotten that Mahomes came back from that knee injury in 9 months. After game 2 it felt like that story was gone. We’ve heard about Nix’s ankle, Maye’s shoulder, other carry over injuries. But Pat is basically not talked about as either still getting over an injury or or as someone with any signs of decline with how quickly he’s returned and how great he’s looked. Pretty incredible
Having overnight to think about it, I think my annoyance at how it was done overshadowed annoyance with Kingsley for whatever occurred here.
It takes a lot for Andy to bench a guy. That shouldn't be ignored, hopefully he learns and moves forward.
You can give Allen/Royals a runway to show what they got after the bye week but you gotta sign Tyreek and Veach should be on the phone every damn day trying to find a WR worth a damn we can trade for.
Thornton was maybe the 5th most important player on offense.
This is the first time this year the Chiefs’ offense has felt just like the 2024-2025 team.
Nothing they do seems very connected, everything feels like it’s “own” thing and not building off anything else.
And a complete lack of confidence from everyone just oozes on every play.