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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
NFL is in a weird spot and I'm not sure you can really mimick the way the Chiefs win.
Overall I think you can almost argue you shouldn't be overpaying any skill players unless you have one of two things:
- A top 5 QB
- A top 5 defense
Unless you're a top defensive team or have a top 5 QB you're in really tough to win a championship. Dallas is a good team...but they don't have a top 5 QB, and have a borderline top 5 defense, so them winning the Super Bowl is unlikely whether they sign Lamb or not. But if their defense can be a consistent top 5 defense then Lamb makes Dak better so you have to sign him.
Really the big problem for other teams is that last year by points allowed the Chiefs were the second best defense, and they have Mahomes. So unless their defense takes a big step back then they probably are in the AFC championship game again at the worst (Ravens probably best shot to dethrone them), and their offense is probably actually better this year.
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Until Andy Reid retires it's going to be tough for other teams to dethrone the Chiefs. Steve Spagnuolo is extremely underrated as a coach as he did a fantastic job getting all those young players on defense playing at high levels and the Chiefs are fortunate that he's not viewed as head coach material so they are set at OC and DC while other teams see their top coordinators poached on a yearly basis. This is also a big reason the Chiefs can just keep rolling year after year as their coaching staff isn't nearly as fluid as other organizations.