Worry about your own shit team, turd

But did we keep Marlin?

I hear that Alex Smith can throw and catch it too!

When you can cut talent like Maclin you know your team is awesome.

I don't see why this is a bad thing.


Maclin simply wasn't playing up to his contract. It's pretty simple.

That and he probably looked rough at the voluntary OTA

Bunkering money isn't a bad thing. But this move isn't about that. It's about finding money to pay current bills, not go on a shopping spree next year.

Don't get me wrong--I don't think the Chiefs are expecting to lose and rebuild this year. But I think the FO made it clear how they feel about their current SB odds when they made the move for Mahomes.

Next offseason, Alex is gone. DJ and Hali likely are too. That represents a completely new era. The Mahomes era. This season will still likely field a 9-11 win team, but Reid and Dorsey know that this is just the swan song season of this most recent era. 2013-2017 was largely led by Smith, Charles, Maclin, Poe, DJ, Hali, Houston, Berry, and a bit of Kelce...

2018 and beyond will be led by Mahomes, Hill, Kelce, Peters, Houston, Jones, Ford, Berry, and the current secured OL.

After we cut Maclin (just did), Smith, and Hali, we will have close to 30 million in cap space next year. And there are a few other candidates, like Allen Bailey, etc,.

We are fine.

All I need to know to validate my opinion that releasing Maclin was a good decision is the fact that Rausch and Whitlock don't like it.

My 9th Grand-kid is getting baptized this week.

You mother****er.

Now I'm down 1...

I think this is a postive thing as it forces us to really know what we have in our young WRs. If there is one position group that we have struggled with as a franchise it's WR. Give these young guys an huge opportunity and see who emerges.

Well if this doesn't validate the move, I don't know what does.

Just my opinion, but even before this move I was on record saying that the Chiefs best Super Bowl window will likely come between 2018-2020 with Mahomes on a cheap contract. This move just reinforces the idea that the FO feels the same way.

They are going to make the remaining cuts next offseason to launch us into the Mahomes era (Smith, Hali, DJ, etc). Use the cap room to extend the young guys who you want around to help lead in the Mahomes era (Peters, Ford, Hill, etc). Use a little bit of the cap room to sign the few FAs who might get your roster over the hump, much like Seattle and Denver did before their SB runs.

Dorsey and Reid know what many of us on here have already known as well-- it's all about what is best for the Mahomes era now.

It's about ****ing time!

Now if he would just tighten up that haircut. Hippie! :D

There might be some truth to this...it's hard to bench a veteran $10m WR that's underachieving. He was their FA prize two years ago. What ever was Maclin's issue last year, they obviously felt they could get similar production on the cheap going forward. He was brought in to offset Bowe's departure. I guess it played it's course. Hill made him expendable.

They must like what they are seeing out of Robinson in OTAs.

It's a very shrewd move..similar to how the Patriots roll. Most teams cut declining players a year too late or wont admit to a contractual mistake. The are gambling on the young WRs to step-up.

At least Cassel's reeruned shit was funny and entertaining. Smith's is just infuriating.
Oh well, at least they will BOTH be members of the has-been garbage pile.

ROFL Thank god this putrid episode of Chiefs football will soon be history. I can only hope that 2PM educates a bunch of sorely lacking knob-gobblers about what it means to have your very own QB that can do more than check-down, stare-down, and be dragged to victory by a team whose individual players possess more talent in their urine specimen than the QB ever will.

Thank you KnowMo! This is indeed great news if true!

Nah, he just mad cuz' his homie got shafted by The Man.
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Well, he was no Dwayne Bowe, but I guess he had a few moments that were big for us.

Nah, can't really think of any of those. Maybe they'll come to me.

There was that one catch that helped the Chiefs beat Pittsb.....well, I guess not.

The only shot we had at a Super Bowl this year involved lots of horrific QB injuries, so I'm not thinking this changes our season all that much.

I hope he's done, cause I enjoyed watching him when he was on the field once in awhile. If he has a great year somewhere sadface.

We don't need Maclin and his 12 mill, it's that simple. We have youth at WR that need to play if for nothing else so that in 18 they know what they are doing when Mahomes starts.

Maclin is hardly worth his pay in this offense. Smith makes it look even worse paying his salary.

Great point.

The sacrifices we make now will pay huge dividends for Mahomes in '18.

2017 is a 16-game preseason. Get those reps in, boys. You're all competing for starting jobs in 2018.

No...Cassel was horribly inaccurate. He was most certainly NOT entertaining.

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Suck it Smith. Maclin won't miss this:

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Yeah, I can almost recall that one. That was classic Marlin.

Wonder if the Chiefs kick the tires on Boldin....

He put up 584 yards receiving and 8 TDs last year. He is a perfect red zone target

You want to put a Dwayne Bowe clone in an offense with Alex Smith, who needs 5 yards of separation to throw a ball?

Yeah that'll work...

The Chiefs need to roll with these young guys, let them sweat it out for 16 games and see who's standing at the end. Then they can determine if they want to draft a receiver in 2018 to pair with Mahomes or not.

600 posts....

Was Maclin good or shitty?

Think he smacked a bitch?

Clay is right. Hill, Conley, Chesson, and Robinson are all under contract for 2018. They need game reps in order to make the Mahomes transition that much cleaner.

The jury is out on Robinson and Chesson, but I feel like Conley suffers from Smith. He made a lot of clutch 3rd down catches last year, usually near the sideline. No, he doesn't get a ton of separation typically, but he's also huge and can body most DBs.

By 2018, we will know for sure if our WR corp needs help or not for Mahomes. That is a good thing.

He's Schroediger's WR.

I didn't say sign him.

Also, I'm sure they pick up a WR at the 53 cut downs.

I'll say given the contract + the draft pick given up it turned out to be a shitty signing.

When does Maclin sign with Denver?

Maclin should go to atl

This post makes no sense.

Trying to make plays you physically can't make exposes you.

Umm... yeah. Doing nothing is actually better than doing something incredibly stupid.

Second, Cassel, when he wasn't being stupid, was nothing but a 1 read check down guy too. He's a worse version of the same player.

MOTHER****ING This.

I know Chesson isn't likely to play much this year right now, but this guy looks legit in this video... makes plenty of wow plays. I think he was severely limited by a shit QB last year.

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Oh no you didn't mention the QB!!! You're going to get banned if DeFace sees this post.


reported :D

We just need a WR that can catch screens and slants

jsp is right, we can argue about whether this hurts the team's non-existent super bowl chances for this season or about whether the team's poor cap situation made it necessary, but we can't argue about whether the Chiefs are better at WR today or not. They are worse. A player who would have been high on the depth chart was let go for nothing in return. Maybe the youngsters take over, but no one can honestly say this was addition by subtraction or any such thing.

Never really understood acquiring him to begin with considering Alex Smith is this team's QB, so it's hardly surprising to see this.

He's a moron.

Maclin isn't the difference between a Super Bowl in 2017 or no Super Bowl, so it was best to get rid of him now, rollover money into 2018 and get the younger players on the field.

The Chiefs still have weapons in Kelce, Ware and Hill. They have an ascending #2 (or #3, at worst) in Conley. If Hunt is the player he was in college, the offense will be even more dynamic and it wouldn't surprise me to see Ware, who's an excellent receiver, to line up in the slot from time to time with Hunt in the backfield.

Andy Reid will scheme around the loss of Maclin, just like he did last year.

Sure sounds like full on Rebuild Mode to me.

Did not pick up any impact FA's to make the team better, moved up to draft a QB in the top 10, now they are dumping cap.

Macklin cost you guys a draft pick because Reid CHEATED and now he is $7mill of dead space for the next 2 years.

Great moves for a single WC victory against a terrible team.

Loving this, just hope the Raiders or San Diego don't sign him.

Sammy ****ing Watkins trade/extension here we come

8 pages regarding Jeremy Maclin's release. That's impressive in and of itself.

He would be useless with Smith but Mahomes would get the best out of him for sure.

Broncos signed our trash bc they can't draft. Unless Denver falls into a HOF QB again they will be looking up to Chiefs and Raiders.

Who is going to protect reek from getting double teamed? Teams are going to have a guy hit him at the LOS then bracket him all day and take him out. There are a bunch of no named guys behind him they can match up man on man.

Ware wasn't great last year either. Still has yet to break off 1k in your system and his YPC (which kc fans loved when Charles was with you) dropped over a full yard last year, in a year where he was the featured back. Ware only had 3 TD's last year as well.

Full on rebuild mode if your hoping rookies are going to save you.

Too bad for Dorsey he can't fire Reid as well, he would be better off getting someone in who can design and call an O that has some balls.

It will get ugly if DJ and Houston cannot return to form, I think Houston has a chance but DJ is going to be a long shot with the injury he had.

A truly moronic post

Full on rebuild?

Offensive line... Young and all back.
TE... Young and back
RB... Same with upgrade
WR's... Pretty much same
QB... Same with upgrade

Defensive line... Solid and young
Secondary... Solid/young
LB's... Decent. Solid with/when injuries heal.

Transition would be far better word than rebuild. Transition to Mahomes from Smith.

I would trust this FO completely with releasing a veteran WR, BTW.

They knew Bowe was done, guessing they see the same indicators on Maclin's tape.

Meh...Demaryius Thomas has dropped off by 500 yards and 6 TDs from 2014.

Donkos have $21+ million invested this season in WRs that netted 10 TDs last year.

KC's 5th round pick generated more points than them combined...and had more receiving TDs than either of them in limited play.

I'm not even going to mention the fail at TE...

Enjoy the 4th place rebuild...

Damn it I hate this line of thinking. It's really not that simple.

You can't double Hill AND Kelce. So if you're assuming Hill is the guy teams take away, then Kelce is going to have a lot of opportunities.

There's only so much you can scheme defensively, but at some point it's man vs. man. The better one will win typically win.

Low risk high reward. Not like John was signing guys like Quentin Griffin or Joe Mays.

kc has no depth, your old at MLB and OLB, let a top flight DT Walk, a solid DE walked, no depth there, a bunch of no names at WR after reek, one TE, one RB who hasn't broke off 1k, a QB who knows he is going to be gone in a year or 2 because they aren't going to eat his cap either.

I like the Broncos chances when compared to a team dumping vet cap space especially on a guy who cost them an extra 2nd round pick!

Dumb.

As.

****.

Literally everything in this post is wrong. Try getting facts right and people will take you seriously.

I truly hope that for your sake, you aren't ignorant about life as you are about football.

You don't watch many Pats games do you? They are known for taking the best player out of the game.

2 safeties allow a DC to bracket both guys if they want, depends on what they are showing at the LOS. It is not like kc can spread teams out and kill them with speed, they will spread teams out to get the short basketball type pass and hope for YAC but need perfect blocking to pop anything big downfield.

Plus there are going to be times where both guys will need a breather and at least one is going to be off the field.

Imagine having to face an O of 2-3 no named WR's and Kelce or reek and your backup TE. Suddenly gets very easy to double.

Now if you still had Macklin then you have DC's in trouble.

I don't like it at all. I think it is a stupid move. Our WR corps looks like a bag of s**t to me right now.

I trust Reid and Dorsey so I support this move based on that but personally it is not something I would have done.

This guy makes Knowmo look like Ron Wolf

Enjoy rebuilding.

I heard that your top 10 QB started with the 3rd team today, but that was from Clay so it could be wrong.

You're assuming that the rest of our WRs are terrible because they don't have a 'name'...

Bold strategy, Cotton.

This poster is from the Mane so it's not surprising to see that he is football stupid.

Krammeddicksinhim will realize that Alex Smith has beat his team.....3 times in a row......twice in Denver.


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Clearly they're putting 13 on the field so they can double Hill/Kelce plus stack the box on Hunt/Ware. Clearly.

If anyone is about to undergo a rebuild, its Denver.

Your best players are aging, but unlike the Chiefs, your most recent drafts have been buckets of ass in large part. The replacements are not in place.

Buckets of ass is giving too much credit.

Whatever Dorsey says, I support, but this is still rather shocking. Here are the receivers on the roster.

Veterans
10 Hill, Tyreek WR 5-10 185 23 2 West Alabama
17 Conley, Chris WR 6-3 205 24 3 Georgia
12 Wilson, Albert WR 5-9 200 24 4 Georgia State
13 Thomas, De'Anthony WR 5-8 176 24 4 Oregon
14 Robinson, Demarcus WR 6-1 203 22 2 Florida

Drafted rookies
80 Chesson, Jehu WR 6-3 203 23 R Michigan

Guys who will come out of nowhere to dominate the league like Kurt Warner did
4 Dieter, Gehrig WR 6-3 207 24 R Alabama
81 Jones, Seantavius WR 6-3 200 24 1 Valdosta State
7 Kemp, Marcus WR 6-4 185 R Hawaii
83 Moore, Alonzo WR 6-2 185 24 R Nebraska
85 Stevens, Tony WR 6-4 198 R Auburn

So we'll typically keep 5 or 6 receivers on the roster, which must mean that they like a camp guy or two, they like Robinson and Thomas, and/or they're planning to go out and get someone. It's possible too that these less-name guys merely represent a better value for the cap dollar, and Dorsey want to put cap dollars somewhere else.

It's a surprise, but as the coinage says, In Dorsey We Trust.

I can't think of one player on Denver's offense who is above average and still on a rookie contract.

He may not have had a great year, last year but I didn't see that one coming.

Paradis and Garcia. We also have three really promising young QB's and drafted a couple WR's this year that have some promise as well.

Let me repeat this again Knowmo. I'll bold the important part:

I can't think of one player on Denver's offense who is above average and still on a rookie contract.

Matt Paradis was the #1 graded center in the NFL last year LMAO

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You need to worry about kc now that Dorsey is in slash-and-burn mode with veterans due to your crappy salary cap issue.

I see a Jerrod Marlin signing in Denver's future. Island of the Chiefs misfit toys out there.

The Chiefs current WRs have a total of 2,643 yards and 12 TD in the NFL.

:facepalm: