03-27-2019, 11:27 AM
(03-27-2019, 06:11 AM)McC Wrote: Eight teams besides the Bengals passed on Mahomes. Would they have if they had known? And he didn't play until the very end of his rookie year and the Chiefs still made the playoffs, meaning they were a playoff caliber team even without him. They had a good team around him when he took over. Would we have had a good team around him or would he have been running for his life and doing very little?Hindsight is 20/20 but because something bad happened before doesn't mean it will happen every time. 32 teams passed on Brady five times each. But to say Murry is going to be a bust only shows you ignore destiny. If the Bengals took Mahomes or Brady there is little to suggest either would be the players they turned out to be with their current teams. Most people like to call a player a bust but in reality their team was the ones who failed to either coach them right, surround them with others who make it easy for them to succeed or just totally drafted them in the wrong spot. The only way a player is a bust imo is when he is injured and can't play. The team must take players that fit their team not what others think they need. Ross is a perfect example. Taking him at number nine was as foolish as it gets. Andy can't throw accurately on deep passes or have the time to throw said passes. But fans want to gripe about Ross when it was a FO mistake to draft him.
The point is, there is a helluva lot of 20/20 hindsight that goes on around the whole Patrick Mahomes conversation.
