He was also dealing with a serious groin injury which was more than likely the bigger negative impact on his performance.

If you have two degrees from Miami, that school should be shuttered immediately.

I don't buy it for one hot minute.

I understand the cap prospective, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend I'm in some delusional world where this was a net positive from a personnel perspective. Maclin was a good receiver.

Tyreek Hill offset Maclin's drop in production in 2016. Hill and Conley will both likely have to produce more this season to offset the loss because I'm doubtful that a handful of rookies and a 2nd year guy that could only muster 4 snaps are going to do it. I don't think that's a huge stretch to expect 800 yards each out of Conley and Hill and 200 yards out of a rookie, but it still has to happen just to break even. We'll see how it transpires, but I'm certainly not jumping up and down about this transaction at the moment.

So when it mattered { playoffs not regular season ). Did maclin ever play it contribute while in KC?

I'll take that as a compliment since you "buy" this:

Prove otherwise.

Thanks in advance.

So it looks like every pass play KC will run next season is Hill on the fly, Kelce over the middle and everyone else on a check down.

I think Andy and John saw an injury prone receiver that couldn't justify his salary and knew we had the resources to make him expendable.

Conley was the 3rd WR last year and had about the same amount of yards as Maclin. Wilson had the same amount of TD's. It's a hell of a bargain to keep those 2 combine for $12 million less.

It was also interesting to hear our scout say that Chesson doesn't need much development bc he's knowledgeable of the game from his time at Michigan.

I have a hard time believing this offense will be better without Maclin than they would have been with him.

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can't possibly argue with this...

Pretty cold that Reid was just at his wedding.

Make or break year for Conley

I am stunned but I want Conely to get more catches. He's young and fast. Mack in not worth the cash and he wouldn't be around next year for Mahomes anyway.

https://arrowheadaddict.com/2017/06/...anquan-boldin/

Anyone else find it interesting that this article posted 8hrs ago about the various sports writers that have very recently mentioned Boldin as a fit for Chiefs?

Boldin was better than Maclin last year, and doesn't disappear in the Red Zone, plus he costs a fraction of Maclin's contract. I'd be fine with a 1+1 or 2 year contract if it means we also get Hodges or Revis!

That's better personnel value than Maclin

Sucks. Loved Mack. He looked diminished physically last year.


Next guy up.

Choke on the big bucks.....sad to see him go but the money is the ticket these days. He had no tie to KC, its show me the money....

we arent getting Hodges

I guess if "franchise QB" is just a silly term with no meaning whatsoever, we can go ahead and knight Smith.

Otherwise, I believe it would be best to just recant the statement and call it too much whiskey so we can all get the **** on with our lives.

We need our draft picks at WR to play not sit behind over old vets.

?

This should be the case with as many positions as possible. During this throw away season, we should be getting the newest blood some experience in preparation for the coming of the Franchise QB, and all of the awesomeness it will entail.

Third season is the one that matters in Reid's system. Obvioulsy Jeremey couldn't get it down. Sad.

he signed with Buffalo

Um, he played for Reid for years in Phillips too...

Bah-Humbug! Sign Revis and Josh Gordon, trade a pick for an ILB. lol

Wow, no way did I expect to log in and see this today.

Alex ain't it, and 2PM is being prepared for his shot

Maybe this is his wedding gift...


...because Chiefs

The grim reaper short, Alex is the only player left, and he's going bye bye too.

Who ****ing said that?

how could there be a better, falsely conceived gif?


https://media.giphy.com/media/xZwCTfI3EBBF6/giphy.gif

And the Alex only fans response.

#TARGETACHIEVED

Conley breakout year confirmed

This was a bit shocking at first, but it's the right move. We need to start creating cap space to keep guys like Ford, Peters, Hill, and Jones.

Also, as somebody else already mentioned, Alex is going to put up Alex #'s regardless of who his weapons are.

So, we all agree that Reek goes for like 1,900 yards and 22 TD's this year right?

Escobar will help make up for this loss. Alex always looks for the TE's and Escobar could be a decent player this year.

Maclin seemed a little too Pro-Alex for me.

This move will hurt us in 2017 (I think), but in the end its probably the right thing to do.

The amount of Alex ranting in threads like these is why I barely even try to talk Chiefs here anymore.

The buck stops with Dorsey, has has player decision power. I remember that was said when he was hired. This may be proof of that.

According to the Kansas City Star, free agent Jeremy Maclin "looked spry" in OTA practices and ran with the first-team offense prior to his shocking Friday night release.

Cap expert Joel Corry indicated Maclin's release may have been almost entirely salary-cap related. The Chiefs' only other high-salary, cut-able veteran was Tamba Hali, but his salary is guaranteed. "They had the most cap commitments of anyone in the league for 2018 prior to the (Maclin) move," Corry said. "They’re going to have to do something else next year. They’re not in good shape, cap-wise." The Chiefs' likeliest 2018 move for cap relief is moving on from Alex Smith.

Ditto.

This.

Bye.

Getting rid of the best receiver on the team(don't anyone say tyreek is better, he's not) pretty much means the Chiefs are in a sort of proto-rebuild/rearrange mode to get the team ready for Mahomes. Marcus Peters needs to be resigned, Tyreek too. Also getting another WR1 and DT.

Pat Mahomes is Andy Reid's last shot at winning a SB, and I think he knows it, so they're going to make the team the best possible situation for Pat Mahomes to waltz into.

This definitely signals that the team has closed the window on the Alex Smith era.

No rebuilding. No fairy tales.


Maclin wasn't worth his production.

Blame Alex. If he weren't so frustrating, people wouldn't talk about him all the time.

This shit happens on every Chiefs discussion board I've ever seen. It's not just Chiefs Planet.

This is almost the exact same situation when we cut Brandon Flowers.

It was met with shock at first, but eventually we got used to it, and as it turns out, our secondary was just fine. And it was for the best.

Yep.

Not by me.

True story.

He choked at Indy.

Buh Bye.

How do you expect us to spend the cap space?

Extend Smith and give him a raise.

I stand by everything I said in the Maclin thread.

Thanks goodness he is gone.

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Im sure this was an incredibly difficult move for the Chiefs to make. I'm generally not one that favors cutting players after a down year, but i'm ok with this move.

I'm betting Maclin was well aware he was on the bubble. He didn't show up to OTA's because it was the vet thing to do, he showed up because he knew his ass was on the line and he had to prove he belonged on the roster.

As crisp as he may have been, he probably wasn't 13.5M dollars crisp.

A very Patriots move...

Too bad, he had one fine season but injuries are injuries. Probably time to move on. Especially at that price.

The solution is simple

The new mods chose otherwise.

I did not.

Here's Conley leaping through the air to snatch the ball away from Gaines...

http://www.chiefs.com/media-center/p...6-36c8e0ada6cb

That ones a certainty

Lighting a fire under the rest of the teams ass. I like it.

Our receivers aren't the Frankie Hammond's of the world anymore, Dorsey has stockpiled potential there so I'm honesty okay if we go into the season with what we have.

It'll be a breath of fresh air really.

generally speaking, i prefer a young thang for tingling my balls...

ymmv...

I'm 36. I'm not old.

Yup.

When you have an elite tight end and a solid run game, you can get by on a squad of low end tier 1 and tier 2 receivers

lol...this is techincally a bust signing, but solid bailout on the 10 mill, James McClair wasn't a world beater out there.

:clap:

I'm not happy about this either...there has to be an ulterior motive to this more than just saving money. 12-4 teams dont usually cut their #1 WR without having a contingency in place. While Maclin had a bad year, there really isn't anyone to take his place when he's healthy. He knows this system better than than any other WR on the roster.

I dont see how this makes the Chiefs a better team in 2017...

Kind of a raw deal to have him practicing out there in OTAs, risking injury, when they were going to cut him after June 1st. Dorsey did him dirty, IMO.

works well, if you have a TE that doesn't drop game clinching receptions... or a run game that averages 14 carries a game? :deevee:

I get the move from a financial perspective. I might even get it from the perspective that they want their young WRs to get game reps, especially since they are more likely to play with Mahomes than Maclin was.

But the bottom line is that the 2017 Chiefs got worse today. No doubt about it. Now, I don't really care all that much, because I knew our odds of winning the SB this year were pretty much nil anyway.

Long term, its probably the right move. Short term, the Chiefs likely suffer.

This.

I hate it too. No really, I do. I believe every Chiefs fan should look forward to a day when his putrid name never be mentioned again. An entire season is a long time to circle the bowl, but at least the handle has been pushed and the flush of all things Smith has commenced.

Guess we'd better get some better weapons for him!

Oh wait...

ROFL

Might as well cut loose Houston's worthless ass.

Oh FFS. :facepalm:

Alex Only Fans tears are so sweet,because of their idols inevitable mediocre careers demise in KC.

And Hali as well. Oh and Berry. Taking up all the cap space

With moves like this, it's as if the franchise hasn't been to a Super Bowl in almost 50 years, or hasn't won more than 1 playoff game in 24 years.

that guy very well may be the worse football poster on CP.

we swept you last year so your opinion about our team is irrelevant. No keys? No problem.

Yeah..... No not even close. It's moves like Alex that keeps this franchise in the dumpster...

Recycling trash for decades is the reason.

ROFL

We've seen this before somewhere. Difference is, that team had a QB who pushed the ball vertically and was smart as hell.

List of more important player (not in order)-
Berry
Peters
DJ
Houston
Ford
Jones
Fisher
Morse
Schwartz
Kelce
Alex
Tyreek

He was 3rd on the team in cap hit this year. This is what good teams do, and we're trimming the fat. Dorsey recognized that Maclin just wasn't worth the cost over what they feel they have developing. They've always approached positions of need this way where you plug in a serviceable starter and then develop behind it. If anything this should excite Mahomes fans because it proves that this team is not afraid of going young once they feel the position can be handled.