I can accept that last point, however our general operating philosophy puts us in a bind. The only way to improve your talent is through the draft and FA. Picking in the mid teens puts you right outside the consensus guys most years. Moreover, our cap management style limits our ability to be aggressive in FA, even though that's not how you build the core of your team. Either we get better at player evaluation and become more aggressive in targeting certain players, or we get this cap under control an try and add more players trough FA.
Mick is too complacent and deferential to the HC at times. Beyond the Mahomes example, Lamar and Jalen were players we could have gotten without giving up a lot. The wait and see approach is just not cutting it and I think we need to seek quicker results from coaches and players. We are no longer a top tier team that's jn thr hjnt every year and that should be the goal. Obviously, with our new HC we'll have to see how things go but I'm not optimistic about the FO strategy historically.