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Originally Posted by Detoxing
OBJ wants $20M. Most in NFL circles say it's a pipe dream and his demands will come down as most teams will want him on a 1 year prove it deal.
You don't know, nor do i know, what his market actually is.
There's obviously a limit on what the Chiefs can and should pay him. Maybe some desperate team like the Ravens swoop in and meet his demands. Maybe not.
But to hand wave this and say, "Oh for sure, this will NEVER happen" is pretty closed minded and not at all how i think the Chiefs operate.
The Chiefs love special players. KT, for example. But they have to operate in a manner that awards special players at good value.
Both Hopkins and OBJ can potentially be had for good value. Only time will tell.
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You're speaking as if my thought process is one sided only.
It's not.
My thought process is:
1) Cap space vs. value now and in the immediate future, as in like, the next two to three years.
2)The player's worth and/or perceived worth on the market, or in the case of a trade, the other team's concept of what that is.
3) if it's a trade, what the draft pick's value is
4) Has Veach done or said anything that might make me think this is a possibility or is it a pipe dream? Does this fit the last few years of team building?
And that's it.
And the answers on all of those tell me that no, this is incredibly unlikely. Not Dhop, and not OBJ.
Taylor's a 25 year old ascending talent that is a minor overpay if he's unable to get it done at LT, but certainly an upgrade at RT in a worst case scenario. This is a smart move with huge upside that gives the team a ton of flexibility moving forward in several scenarios. (and the deal is $40m guaranteed, by the way, we can get out of it in '25 if he were to tank-which is unlikely.)
That's not the same thing as $20m a year on either over 30 WR that hasn't finished a season in two years.
I don't know what to tell you if you don't see that. I mean, this conversation is just going in circles.