Just copy paste the playbook we used with Tyreek and Sammy. Worthy isn't Tyreek but he can be a version of him and Rice can certainly do all the things Sammy could do. Just tweak the usage to account for Rice being more experienced and more ready to handle a high volume role.
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I thought it was odd that initially all the reporting was "most of the regular season", "three months or more", "December"...

And then the big wig reporters start saying January. Where's the disconnect?

If he can play, he's gonna play. Cause I suppose even just a great Super Bowl run may be enough to get him a nice pay day. But damn it I want him here at least another year no matter what as it's pretty obvious he and Mahomes have that mojo, not too different from what JuJu immediately had w/ him.
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It's a contract year for Hollywood. If there's any way at all for him to get back out there, he's going to try.

He'll go into FA at 28 years old next season. Another 'make good' deal like he just signed puts him back out there at 29.

A 29 yr old speed receiver with a pretty substantial injury history is going to be doomed to 2nd wave of FA status for the duration of his career, IMO.

But if he can get back and put up a solid 3-4 regular season games and then have a big post-season, he's not going to recapture ALL of his earning potential, but maybe enough to get himself a 3 year, $35-40 million deal.

It's not the kind of insane shit others at WR have managed, but it's a pretty substantial chunk of change.
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Hell.....if he wants to sign a nice 3 year deal here I'd contemplate that if he comes back and shows well.
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Jackson/Maclin

I think Rice is closer to Maclin than Worthy is to Hill.
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I might be interested - really depends on Worthy.

If Worthy develops over the course of the season to be a guy who's a genuine weapon at all levels, then I think I'd be content to just continue the WR Draft Pick Ladder.

Every year in the first 3 rounds, we grab another guy and then take a flyer on a veteran looking for a bounce-back.
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I think Pacheco is a wait and see kinda deal. Truth be told we have a light schedule in November.

Raiders twice, Panthers and one big game against the Bills that I don’t think they’ll bring him back for. If we’re something like 10-2 going into the Chargers game on 12/8 I’d look to have Pacheco back that game as well as the Texans game 2 weeks after.

I think Hollywood is gonna try to come back to practice sometime in the mid part of December. I think the goal is getting him ready for January.
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I think those wins on the road last year in the post-season took a lot of pressure off.

Now they know they can do it.

While I'm sure they'd love the bye and the home playoff games, I don't think they'll take any massive risks to secure them at this point.
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This stretch of 4 games coming up isn’t terrible. The Falcons and Saints will be a pain in the ass. I expect us to lose one game between the Chargers, Falcons and Saints which sounds totally fair.

But man the 49ers are just beat to hell. I’d be surprised if McCaffrey played against us with that injury. Deebo and Kittle are having lingering injuries as well.

Purdy just looks like ass without McCaffrey. He really makes that offense dangerous
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Brown is all hope and hype. His catch% and success% are bottom of the barrel WR2. Rice is clearly your #1.
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Whatever makes you feel better.

He won't be the first WR that Mahomes and Andy squeeze potential out of, nor the last. He was tearing up training camp and caught a 15-yd pass in his first - and only - live game play so far.

Injury is the only thing preventing his production right now.
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ive never thought of it before but yea rice is really similar to watkins, hes basically watkins if he wasnt a brokedick and instead just a dumbass
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My concern is the little things Patrick doesn't seem to do as often.

Not going through reads. Locking in on wrs.
Not hard counting as often as before for free plays.

The other which may be attributed to line play. No pumpfake or play action. But knowing Andy. Saving that for second half of season.
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Said it when we drafted him.

I thought Rice was going to be somewhere between who Watkins was in KC and who teams thought he was going to be coming out of the draft.

Which is to say he was going to combine Watkins and his physical play and RAC skills over the middle with some of the downfield ability that Watkins was supposed to have before his feet failed him.

Rice is just such a perfect fit as the X in the Reid system as we have come to know it. That said, while with the Eagles, Reid used DeSean as his X and Maclin as the Z and that's a fine alternative in its own right.

We'll miss Brown. I think we'd be more chagrined by his absence had we actually had him by a few games because we'd have seen what an impact he'd have made on this offense.

Instead, we really never saw it so we never came to appreciate it.

Patrick was gonna eat this year. Without Brown, it's gonna be more of a grind; somewhere between what we got in 2023 and 2022.
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Some ESPN bozo saying we’re looking to add a reciever before the trade deadline
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