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Originally Posted by RunKC
The Chiefs are absolutely playing this right. Chris Jones is a very good player but he's not worth $30 million, especially now that he's about to be 30.
People get pissy about this but take emotion out of it. He's had only 2 seasons with double-digit sacks and didn't have any sacks until this last season. His magnus opus was dominating a Bengals OL composed of backup players. And then the next game was invisible in the SB.
I like Chris but he has no leverage to demand such a high amount.
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That's the thing that's annoying about the "How can we not pay him as much as TJ Watt?!?!" stuff.
Watt AVERAGED 15 sacks/season prior to last year's injury year. He's demonstrated year in, year out dominance. He's been a monster.
Jones has been a very very good player and had a great quasi-platform season. But he's not been Watt. In what was arguably Jones best season (2018) our defense was hot !@#$ing garbage. Even last season we were firmly mid-pack.
This team goes as Patrick Mahomes goes. But TJ Watt has been the anchor of a defense that was pretty instrumental in any success the Steelers had. His QBs have been the corpse of Big Ben and Kenny Pickett with a Mason Rudolph interlude. Why SHOULD the Chiefs pay Jones what the Steelers paid Watt?
And I think Jones is monumentally important to this team - but he's not as important to KC as Watt is to Pittsburgh. He's not as good in a vacuum. And that's the case with Watt, Bosa, Donald and Garrett - all the guys that are being paid more than him.
He's just not being reasonable.