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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
For clarification, im not blaming the players. Its nobody's fault that they were injured. But dropping that much money on one player, is a gamble.
When you gamble, you are going to lose at one point or another.
Injuries are a major aspect of pro football. Its not a matter of IF you are going to be injured, its WHEN, and for HOW LONG.
If Veach is comfortable letting 200 million ride on two trench players, where violent contact is experienced every single play, then okay.
Its simply not a gamble that has paid off for the Chiefs.
Name any Chief (aside from Frank Clark who has played one season on his) given a monster contract that worked out, and was worth the money.
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It depends on what your definition of "worked out" really is. If you're criteria is "we won a SB with that guy" then the list is pretty short. But that's an unfair metric IMO, because even just getting to a SB is an extremely rare and difficult thing to do, and it requires an entire team to get that done. Much less win one.
On the other hand, if your parameters are statistical production, leadership, etc. then the list is significantly larger.
Take Alex Smith for example. Alex signed a 4-year extension, including 45 million guaranteed, IIRC back in 2014 to be the Chiefs starting QB. Now despite the fact that he ultimately couldn't get the Chiefs to the big game, he was in fact well worth his contract. He took over a team that in the previous season went 2-14 or whatever it was, and led the Chiefs to five consecutive winning seasons, four of which totaled at least ten wins, two consecutive AFC-W championships, and four playoff appearances.
Except between 1990-95, the Chiefs had never experienced a such a period of consistent success in franchise history.
And in reference to your "gambling" scenario, the fact that the Chiefs ultimately lost on Houston and Berry actually tells us that the Chiefs should gamble on Jones, mathematically speaking. The law of averages says that gambling on Jones should work out positively for the Chiefs because those two gambles didn't work out.