It can be both though.

Targeting a guy early who sucks (Skyy Moore) is evaluation.

Teams that draft guys late who become great are probably a little lucky and draft a bunch of busts along the way. If they loved those players so much, they’d take them earlier.

The draft is a bit of a crapshoot. Have to evaluate those guys better but also need to take more swings at receiver. Like we’ve done with DB.
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Most teams that have a lot of weapons have put in a lot of investment in the position.

The Chiefs weapon investment in the last 4 years is CEH, Skyy Moore and Rashee Rice.

I know people hate this, because it was pointed out when it was brought up but when you use top 3 round picks on 3 LB's, a center, a RB who was a miss and you have the highest paid guard in the league..there is an argument about money and draft pick allocation along with positional value.
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The D will likely regress a bit, but it might have to.

The goal should probably be to create an elite offense around Mahomes with a 10-15 defense. The defense just can’t be bad if we’re elite on offense.
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I think evaluation has been bad outside the Draft too. MVS & Toney are examples of that. Frankly, so is Sammy Watkins. They signed him to a $16M salary when the top end of the receiver market was $20M. He missed about 50% of the games with injury, so you basically had a $32M receiver who didn't perform anywhere near that level. Everyone knew his injury problems before they signed him, and the injuries continued after he joined the team.

Toney is like a boneheaded version of Sammy. At least Sammy ran good routes and caught the ball when he wasn't on the sidelines with injury. Toney is injured a lot, runs poor routes, can't catch the ball, and apparently can't line up correctly without penalty as well. Lol
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Veach has an a hardon for guys he had high draft grades on, so if they fail somewhere else he'll bring them.

Ronald Jones and Karious Toney are 2 examples of this.
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I think keeping Sneed and one of Tranquill/Gay is fine on defense. Losing Chris won't make us the Bob Sutton defense again.

I think they've got resources to get some quality weapons at WR and RB in FA. I just don't know what they will do at LT.

Good news is this is a really deep WR class. If they choose to load up on weapons in FA they could take a LT in rd 1 and a WR in rd 2 and not have to rely heavily on him like they are Rice this year.
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That strategy has worked on the other side of the ball, but it's been a bad miss when it comes to receivers.

Charvarius Ward and Tranquil come to mind about where it works on defense.
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Boy if you wait till round 2 you aren't getting the type of WR this team needs.
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Tranquill has probably played himself into a pretty good contract...Gay is a superb athlete. Mix that with whatever Nick Bolton wants and you have to ask yourself, in a league where you have a really high paid QB, do you want the LB contracts too?
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Yup, I'd rather take my chances with Prince Oongaboonga at LT, and draft a WR in round 1. Waiting until after the 1st is part of what got KC into this situation.
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Really bad game.

He had a really good game against New England so hopefully he resets.

Let's talk about what we see on this play.

It's 2nd and 15. The Chiefs run a zone-beater with Rashee Rice on a dig. He breaks open behind the second level. Potenially huge play.

However, Mahomes feels pressure and bails. Would like to see him step up into the pocket and fire.… pic.twitter.com/iFJLWIb7qm

— Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) December 27, 2023

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Watson is open on the comeback. Otherwise, maybe Kelce when crossing midfield but it's tighter and you have to drop it in.
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No he’s not. He doesn’t come open until well after Pat bails.
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yes, after he bails but before he goes past the line of scrimmage
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When considering whether a player is 'open,' it's standard to consider just the initial patterns. once the play breaks down, that's a separate play.


Also, that's not a comeback route; that's a go route that Watson is never open on, then he comes back because Pat is scrambling.



edit: That's not even a good go route by Watson. he allows himself to get driven into the boundary; there's nowhere for Pat to throw the ball even if he did stack the DB. Watson cancels himself out on that route.
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