Jones is going to cost himself 8 figures. What a moron.

Yeah, you play it this way and end up losing 10 million plus. Then you give the Chiefs more leverage to keep you the next two years for cheaper.

It's .....the opposite of what you should do right?

I hear ya, but this is not about rational thinking. He's not showing up today.

Now in fairness - little of this will matter if he DOES come back in week 8 and dominates on his way to the SB. All will be forgiven at a point.

But then he'll just get tagged and we'll go through this lunacy again.

He can save himself a TON of heartache by reporting today, swallowing some pride (y'know, only making $20 million this season...**** that makes my head hurt) and balling out.

At worst he'll get the 'thanks for the memories' send-off that Hill got before he started running his mouth to 'build a brand' in Miami. There's still a relatively happy ending to be had here for Chris Jones.

But man, he's gotta un-**** himself. This is just dumb.

Does it get to the point where the Chiefs just go full OBJ and decline to even tag him next year? Or does he just bring too much value to do that?

Very possibly.

Depends on the FA market. They didn't tag OBJ because they wanted the flexibility to go into the market and snag Taylor and Omenihu. I mean for the tag price, they got Taylor, Omenihu, Tranquill AND Edwards. It's possible that none of those guys wait around for KC to finalize a trade if they don't enter the market with available cap space.

So yeah - it could work out that way.

That is among his best scenarios, but he still loses 8 game checks and $2mm for missed training camp. THEN, he is a near 31 yr old trying to negotiate that last big contract. Lost leverage. It's possible he balls out and would be fresher, but that magic is hard to recapture, especially if they are 5-3!

Yeah. Kinda my thoughts too.

It's why there's no way I'd try to let KC off the 33.5 million dollar tag hook. There's your leverage to hit FA unencumbered. Just makes no sense to me.

Thats why I think its all a charade. They know the Chiefs are in cap hell and thats their only leverage in hopes the Chiefs up their offer at the last minute. So if the Chiefs dont do so by the end of the day today Jones has to sign. If he does that then its hard to say it was a bad decision to not report. The idea to skip all of training camp to lose 2.2M to gain something like 4 to 6M in a contract extension makes sense but if it isnt there by 4pm it isnt there and you sign the extension and show up to play accordingly

There's no hope for a contract extension at this point. I'd say that ship sailed a while ago.

Lions winning week 1 would be an NFL buzz dream come true

If he sits out til week 8, doesn’t hit tag amount go down significantly? Might be able to do both.

Man he’s such an idiot if he continues to die on this hill.

This ESPN.com headline just totally mind****ed me.... had to read it over a couple times as I saw 'trade' and 'Jones' and 'star':

Panthers cut Jones, trade for K.C. preseason star

Yall think he's gone after this year?

Just as Chris was getting over the Chiefs letting Frank Clark walk they go and trade Omar Smith-Marquette