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Originally Posted by DaFace
It's tougher for us to say than for a player to do, though. Most guys will be unemployed before they hit age 35 and have to live off of their earnings for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile, they've got people coming out of the woodwork to ask them to help them out financially. Everyone they know is telling them to get as much as they possibly can, while they can - especially agents who are financially tied to whatever deal they get. And even on top of that, the top players are told that they need to get as much as they can to set the market for other players at their position. It just goes on and on.
It's absolutely possible for someone to take a team-friendly deal, but if someone told me I could take $10m this year from the Chiefs or go play for the Raiders for $15m, it sure would be hard for me to say that extra $5m isn't worth it.
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Clark Hunt did an interview during the Chris Jones extension time period where his wording was specific as “we will decide if we will offer Jones a contract or not”…which changed how I look at these scenarios when players leave.
A) it showed me that Clark plays a role in those scenarios, not just a check writer.
B) sometimes the team doesn’t offer a player a contract at all.
Sneed seemed hurt that he wasn’t allowed to stay in KC and with his knee issues, it made me think he was a player they decided to trade versus offering a contract at all. They knew what they had with Trent, Watson, Williams and Connor and decided the team would be better off with using the cap room on CJ95 and getting a pick for him.