So the 3-2 Bills who have wins over the Cardinals, Jaguars, and Dolphins and the 2-4 Bengals who have wins over the Panthers and Giants are tied with the Chiefs who have won 11 straight games which include wins against the Bills and Bengals plus the Super Bowl? That is one heck of a hot take.
It’s fine to have a lower tier WR2 when he’s earning less than $1 million a year and only cost a 4th round draft pick. That’s excellent value that allows you to allocate resources elsewhere. The problem was that the FO didn’t make good use of said resources nor did they seem to have a coherent succession plan for him.
I’ll never understand the antipathy so many Bills fans have for him. I don’t recall him ever being a bad guy or teammate. All he did was wildly outperform his draft slot and have the greatest postseason game by a WR in NFL history against the team’s biggest nemesis.
What have the Chiefs ever done to suggest they would even consider making a trade like this? They traded Tyreek two years ago and have won two Super Bowls since. They traded L’Jarius Sneed this offseason and are 5-0 since. Juju and Kareem Hunt were free.
I get the appeal, but the juice is rarely worth the squeeze. Draft your studs and be strategic about filling in the gaps around them.
He's a really good player, but he's always been more sizzle than steak, IMO. Whatever it is that the greats have inside them just seems to be missing in him.
Brown is a good example. The Cardinals didn’t give up much of anything for DHop. They sent the corpse of David Johnson and a second round pick for Hopkins and a fourth rounder. Even then they didn’t have much success with him.
I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad move, but it’s they type of move that the teams shipping out the player have benefitted from more often than not.
When has trading major assets for an expensive WR ever worked out? Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Hollywood Brown… I’m sure I’m missing some, but Stefon Diggs is probably the most successful example of it, and even that ended poorly.