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Originally Posted by Sassy Snatch
Well, yeah. That was a pretty obvious goal of the owners in this last CBA.
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Then I don’t see any way that comment is anything more than trolling. It would put KC in position to have him next year on the franchise tag for less than his cap charge this year, while also giving them all that extra cap room for the year. And still having him for the stretch run and playoffs this year.
Right now if he shows up and plays on the current deal, he has missed training camp and preseason and a game check and a few million, but franchise tagging him is still too costly and therefore risky for KC. Even holding out thru two regular season games might be enough to make the franchise tag more palatable (considering KC gets a 1.3M swing it’s way between the salary withheld that rolls over in 24 cap space plus the 250k reduction of his franchise tag number).
That threat ain’t real unless his agents don’t realize how it works out.