Seems alot like....you guys making things up in your head so you don't have to accept the reality here....:p

I mean, I said I'm speculating.

The only thing I would say FOR SURE is that anyone who thinks they know FOR SURE what the tag means in this case is acting more confident than they should.

Except it doesn't. We literally saw in real time this year that an OT providing even average to below average play next to a camp fodder G is much more desirable comparatively to even an All Pro G playing next to bad OT play, which seems to be exactly where we're headed again.

I don't know that the play was even THAT much better, but the QB trusted the new OT more...

So keeping the same OL that got utterly destroyed in the SB
and got Mahomes hit and sacked the most in his career, except this time they’re almost assuredly the highest paid OL in the NFL, is a good idea?

For the record, Philly is paying roughly half what we do for our OL for a group that is infinitely better.

I mean, we managed to negotiate the regular season well enough, albeit on a razor's edge at times.

And they seemed to do fine in the playoffs against the Texans and Bills for the most part.

So maybe the plan is just hope we don't meet up with Philly in the Super Bowl again if we get there?

This is what I've been screaming for the last 2 days. It's obvious.

If the Chiefs let Smith walk and the OL suffered because of it, you'd 100% be the first to bitch.

Mailata, Johnson and Dickerson are all paid top 5 contracts each $20+ million.

Wtf are you talking about?

Everyone knows overspending on the OL is the quickest way to kill a team, it's why almost every team drafting in the top 10 this year is desperate to do it. :rolleyes:

Until he didn't.

Oh, and the Browns game where he did but the offense was still terrible.

Paying a RG $22+ million/yr is stupid and paying him because you don't have a LT is even MORE stupid.

It's like paying a 2nd RB because your QB sucks. And you're not even getting a great one at that.

"Well we have Jamaal Charles and a real problem at QB....lets go sign Arian Foster!"

Nobody would understand this signing if he weren't already a Chief. This is just inertia. It's is absolutely asinine that we're going to have 3 of the highest paid interior lineman in NFL history. Who were all here LAST season and played for on an offensive line that every mother's son on this board blamed for every ****ing problem this offense had.

This is just stupid.

Shit.

Honestly, I didn't even know if I'd posted that. I lost interest in the thought halfway through because I knew it was probably bullshit. The server was being ornery, I was irritable anyway and just thought "ah **** it..."

I guess I hit post.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Quick&quot; Cap Fixes for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a><br><br>Convert Patrick Mahomes&#39; roster bonus to signing (+$25.8M)<br><br>Convert Chris Jones&#39; roster bonus to signing (+$12M)<br><br>Convert Travis Kelce&#39;s roster bonus to signing (+$10M)<br><br>Extend Joe Thuney @ 2 yrs, $40M; $20M bonus (+$10M)</p>&mdash; Spotrac (@spotrac) <a href="https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1895225853447151840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I thought I'd read somewhere that we could clear close to $20M on Jones and close to $40M on Patrick if we needed it. Must be another move on top of converting the bonuses.

Or maybe I mis-read something.

Well I guess that's where the deferred money and contract structure comes in, none of them are making that in 2025. Their cap numbers are around $45 million combined for those 3 and their center.