Yea, this is a horrible mindset. Fill all the holes and weaponize the cap space while filling depth through the draft. That allows for late round picks to develop behind veterans. Thrusting rookies into playing immediately is a problem. So, short term solutions are great to allow for that to happen.
There’s more experienced somewhat decent QBs this year on the market than I’ve ever seen.
It’s what the players agreed to. They aren’t working for peanuts.
Those are also two of the teams that will be going after all the top free agents that we're all wanting and have a shit ton more money than we do to get them. If Trey Smith makes it out there then these will be two teams going after him hard and same with Josh Sweat and Milton Williams and any other name that makes it to free agency.
I'm fine with the Zeitler's and Scherff's but i really want to get a younger unit in here to play with Wright and Jones so they can build that continuity and play together for years to come. It would be nice knowing who our starting OL are for the next 5 - 10 years. But i'll take the 1 - 2 - 3 year vets if it'll help Caleb and the running game.
He won’t be going to the Commanders, they just paid 2 guards and a C. I don’t see Pats desperate enough to throw out big money, but I could be wrong. Poles has cornered himself into desperation mode. He helped draft Trey right? Hard to imagine Poles not being obsessed with getting him if available.
The transition tag is almost worthless... though I guess it would save KC the burden of negotiating a contract.
Oh i know Poles will be interested, i was just saying that many teams will be interested and some that have more money to spend than the Bears do but didn't know the Commanders recently signed two starting G's and a C so that knocks them out which is good. Mike Vrabel and the Pats will definitely be involved IMO.
I figured YouTube TV would help with that…
This isn't good for us... makes teams more able to retain players and makes our cap space pretty meaningless unless we really start driving up the cost of players. It also means we should start extending players asap before the cost blows up.
I looked it up a week ago and he'll have a $60M Cap hit for a couple of years but nothing outrageous. The thing with him is that he has a 10 year contract, so that definitely add a lot of flexibility because the team can spread out the money over the many years he still as left.
Flexibility aside, Mahomes is taking it up the ass with all these huge cap raises. QB prices in the next years are going to get stupid and he has an AAV in the 40's locked for a decade. I don't know what happens when the guaranteed cash is up, but I'd imagine he'd love to get a cut of these massive cap raises.
Well yeah that's the player's problem for signing a 10 year deal. But what I also read in that article is that KC is going to redo his deal in the next couple years... for what that's worth.
Does he have Venmo? I’ll kick in. Poor guy.
I mean… I’m not worried about his money and I’m sure he’s not worried about being broke. But when you’re one of the best to ever do it, you usually want to be paid like it. His contract isn’t horrendous moving forward though, but he’s still making roughly Jared Goff money. If he gets out of the last two years though, then it won’t matter. But from the competitive… hard to compete if one of the best in the game is making under market value, so it’s partially jealousy speaking.