Matt Derrick
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He didn't have anybody else he was going to have to significantly share the backfield with.
I'm sure that was absolutely a factor in his decision.
If you told him that, hey, you're going to be the guy, that's not a situation where you can just call the guy up when you're on the clock and say, by the way, we're checking Jeremiah Love.
So I don't know if either one of those guys would probably be real happy with the situation.
And again, financially, mathematically speaking,
You know, you're going to guarantee $30 million to Jeremiah Love.
You've already guaranteed $30 million to Kenneth Walker.
You can't, there's no, there's just no way that it makes any financial sense whatsoever to be guaranteeing $60 million to your running back room in this day and age in the NFL.
And maybe there's a world in which it makes sense, Seren, because I do firmly believe that one of the things that the Chiefs has really hurt their offense in recent years has been the fact that they haven't had an effective run game.
I mean, the most effective run game they've really had in maybe the last four or five years has been when
uh... you know in the rookie year for president pacheco i mean that was it and yeah i want a super bowl but we've also seen the when the team has a truly effective running back and that often to something to be seen so
Hey, if your thought process is that you want to be ready in case Walker goes down, that you've got another guy that can go in there and keep the offense at a top three level, I can see the point.
But things like that, just because they make sense on paper doesn't mean they're going to make sense and work out in real life.
I think one of the things that would happen is that you'd probably have two unhappy guys in your backfield, and that can affect the team too.
And you and I talked about this last night on Sunday Sound Off, Soren, that even the Chiefs, you need to come out of this draft with three or four starters that are going to be starting for you very quickly.