Tee’s market price

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(02-19-2025, 12:21 PM)Bengalbug Wrote: It’s a draft and develop problem.  You can’t fix trenches and defense through free agency.  If you look at the best teams in the nfl, they rarely use FA and when they do, it’s to supplement their core roster.  

It’s not apples to apples… The chiefs OL was a mess and so was their WR room (albeit a lot due to injuries).  The second best FA is their RG Trey Smith.  He was also their best OL.  Should they let him walk, so they can invest money on multiple, maybe above average, OL and WR?  You keep your best players and build around them.  I doubt he hits FA.

You keep tee until you have too many areas to address financially with handfuls, emphasis on the S, of above average to great players.  This is where the chiefs are at.

The bengals tagging Tee twice, shows they are committed to spending on the roster, one way or another.  That IS different than years past, when they let these guys walk.  

If they hit on any one of the receivers over the last 3 years, we are not in this situation.  Again, draft and develop problem.  

Anyone saying we are good at finding WR in the draft, it’s complicated.   While we have a higher hit rate than average in the nfl.  The reality is we have hit two times over the last 7 receivers drafted, one of which was a top 10 bust.  So we have drafted two of the top 24 receivers since 2017, and 5 that are back end roster guys or out of the league.  Optically it looks like we are great because we have been fortunate with two game changers.  But it’s extremely top heavy.

we have reached that point where we have  "too many  areas" ..and we have to get out of the mindset that Joe, Chse and Tee and going to make us unstoppable..Actually the team has to get out of that mindset ...