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And Hill would have had half the targets that he had if Kelce hadn't been on the field. That will be true of any team Hill plays for that does not have a HOF tight end. If he thinks he will get more targets now without Kelce, he has a big surprise waiting for him...like another defender front of him...and maybe behind him. Tua will be throwing to him less, not more, at least by the time the season is half over.

It will be, after they all learn their stuff. The question is how long will that take? Those quicker on the uptake will get most of the snaps in the games we are behind or have a small lead, though. But, yes, having more targets with different skills will be better than one main guy with a huge dropoff if injured. And injuries are the name of the game. Another is: how good is Mahomes, really, at running an offense with multiple WR's having different skill sets? This year, we will learn the true capacity of Mahomes' brain and self-discipline. If he truly has a Peyton Manning or Tom Brady brain, we will find out the answer this year.

True. During the growing pains, he could be a big help here and there.

It will be great fun, as long as we are not expecting too much in the W-L column. This is about 2023 and beyond.

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Mahomes is a huge factor, but remember the second baby coming around Nov. or Dec, I think. Also, the Broncos have a bunch of weapons on both sides of the ball. We could see the old Wilson, with the weapons they have. And Justin Herbert is VERY accurate. Injuries could easily decide the Division.

Could be. Reid is great at making a new system out of new players and confusing teams. That confusion helps for about half of a season, and our most difficult part of the schdule is the first half. So, you could be right. I just would never bet the house on it. If we cruise through the year, Veach needs to be inducted into the hall of fame.

Any kind of "news" needs controversy, or it isn't news and no one cares. And it isn't just June or sports in that regard. News is about making money. Money is the oxygen in our entire system. It's the money, honey. That why we hear conspiracy theories and misinformation. Profit.

You are right about the definition of congenital. But there are congenital defects caused by in utero mutations. but Klippel-Feil is actually inherited and if you care to know, it is autosomal (not sex chromosome) dominant, usually from the father. It is often limited in its expression, like Ross apparently, but the one thing that is the same is that these people need to avoid activities that can injure the neck. If Ross is Klippel-Feil, he is truly rolling the dice in a high stakes game. I suppose that makes me worry about him?

You are right. But....I predicted our exact record last year. Anyway, I am always optimistic about one bone in my body.

Don't get me wrong. This coming season will be super fun, watching these young guys come into their own. But there will be enough hiccups and losses to make us tear our hair out. Fortunately, a lot of us old guys don't have much to tear out. All I am saying is curb your enthusiasm about us being playoffs or especially Super Bowl bound. I doubt we win the division in 2022. If I'm wrong, shame on me. Keep this post and throw it back in my face. 10-7. Maybe 9-8.

All good things must end, including the Tyreek Hill era. Chiefs will have a rough time this year. All those rookies, the hardest schedule in all of football, and a team built around a QB who will be distracted by the birth of his second child exactly at crunch time. But in 2023...look out. The front office did the right thing accumulating those first contract draft choices in HIll's place. The trade was perfectly timed.

I agree that it shouldn't have any noticeable effect on anyone after a time. The gallbladder just adds a big amount of bile into the small intestine to help digest foods after a large fatty meal. For awhile, people do best if they eat many smaller meals instead of gorge on a few big ones each day. Even that goes away after awhile. But with a pro athlete who has to eat big time on a regular schedule, I have no idea what that would mean. Its odd that a young man would get gallbladder disease at all and need to have it removed, so maybe there is more going on. It's not surprising he would lose so much weight with it, but he should be fine now. There is a reason it could happen in a young man, but unless you are really interested, I won't bore you with it.

...that we know of.

Don't be so glum all the time.

You are just beginning to realize that?

If he got waived and kept getting signed by other teams, he would be a Ramblin' Rose. But I think if he turns out to be good, he would look best in red. Right?

He should have that nipped in the bud.

Nevermind

You are obviously right about that. Different kind of risk, though, than simply drafting someone. A draft is always a hopeful gamble, not one that ends up in a court of law. The greatest ideal is to get a "steal." That says something. A risk is considered acceptable in a draft situation. That is what it is all about. But the risk in these cases is not all on the team. The players are exposed to some of it, in some cases more than they realize.

You make good points. But money talks, and I think the stakeholders have a lot of say in choosing what they want to hear and which specialists to pay the most attention to. But that is just my bias. I hope I'm wrong and that they had it all figured out and ruled out all the possiblities. I'm ready to drop my concerns in my posts, but not in my mind. 'Nuff said.

College educations don't teach you about that kind of thing. Also, I'll tell you. Its been a long time, but when I was a pathologist, my special area in clinical pathology was coagulation disorders. I also know doctors and how much they know generally. Based on that, the chances that they obtained an anti-thrombin III level or levels of other natural anti-coagulants on Trey Smith is essentially zero. Remember, he was evaluated by general internists and sport medicine specialists. He was not at the Mayo Clinic. A 20 year old getting blood clots in his lungs out of the blue for absolutely no obvious reason is very unusual.

Making their own decisions about something they know exactly zero about is a different matter, and I know you are very smart and understand that, no matter what you say for the sake of argument on a forum. The decisions we make depend on our knowledge of the reward/consequence ratio.

Yeah, I know 21 year olds are great at evaluating risk. They have so much experience. And, of course, the money flashing in their eyes does not bias them at all. Come on. Get real.