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No idea if we’ll make a big splash, but nobody is signing anything official these next few days. Buffalo can reach an agreement to acquire some player with a big cap hit and then free up the room to fit the contract after the fact.

The Cox rumors seem pretty clearly to me to be a case of other teams wanting him and Philly not being interested.

If Cleveland ends up being the team that lands Watson, this trade will look very different.

Dallas really backed themselves into a corner with the contracts they had handed out. Someone else should have beaten that kind of offer.

The Amari Cooper and “imminent” McCaffrey rumors are BS accounts. The Kirk news, if legit, should probably push him out of our price range. That just isn’t responsible IMO. CMC wouldn’t totally shock me but I’d be pretty disappointed. Cap hit would be the full $20 mil unless we restructure/Dallas agrees to pay some amount of it.

Fine if he’s cheap, but if we come out of this off-season with the young guys, Shaq, and maybe Hughes as our edge rushers, we’ve messed up.

Seems like there’s some Malik Willis #2 and Travon Walker > Kayvon buzz building right now.

I hear ya but I doubt NFL teams actually expected these guys to hit the market. It’s been known for awhile now that Godwin wasn’t going anywhere for example. Adams almost certainly wouldn’t have been let go either. Teams knew Robinson was probably going to be the top guy available and that Cooper might be available.

Cooper and Robinson alone make it a good crop of FA WRs and the draft is once again very strong too.

If Trubisky gets $10 mil per year, we’re looking at a 2023 5th round pick if we manage our other moves correctly. I don’t think it’s really worth worrying about unless some dumb team decides to give him $16-20 mil per year which I just can’t see happening.

I haven’t really scouted this season but I’d probably take the guy that’s been getting compared to Mike Evans (Drake London). Allows us to keep Davis in the slot where he thrives and have a three headed monster at WR.

The funny thing is he never actually did follow them. The story appears to have been made up out of thin air. He’s still following damn near his entire team too.

I believe their plan is for the shortened name to be DCFC.

Some relatively under-the-radar guys (aka not going for the top 20ish free agents) that I like: Michael Gallup, WR Cedrick Wilson, WR Marques Valdes-Scantling, WR Chase Edmonds, RB Maxx Williams, TE OJ Howard, TE He was #8 in pass rush grade on PFF this year, though his run defense woes brought his overall grade down to #40. They'd have to do their homework on him but he's as good a pass rusher as we could really hope to add this offseason.

Yeah I would say Brady had the best career but IMO Peyton and Rodgers were better QBs. They just didn’t enjoy the team success that Brady did. It’s all splitting hairs though. They’re all incredible.

If New York were willing to eat most of the contract, count me in. Not really interested in giving up an asset for him otherwise. I might consider the Beasley package because I'd like to move on from Beasley anyways, but we can probably make better use of the cap savings from moving Beasley than a RB that hasn't been healthy in years.

Playoff teams with more cap space than KC: Cinci, Las Vegas, and Pittsburgh. $21 mil is a pretty decent amount of room to start out with and their list of free agents shouldn't be terrifying to Chiefs fans IMO. They'll be fine this offseason in the very least.

Strictly about the player roster, my top 5 in some order would be: WR - Ideally, I'd love to enter the season with Davis as the #3 WR on paper, but maybe more realistically, he'll be the #2 and we have to find a #3. I do not want McKenzie to be the #3. Whoever we add to the fold would preferably play on the outside with Diggs on the outside and Davis in the slot. Edge - I think this one goes without much explanation; we simply need to get a better pass rush. #2 CB - I'd be content with just bringing Levi back, but seems like we may need to find a cheaper option. IOL - I figure we bring Bates back but I would like to see an infusion of talent here. LB - I would prefer we move on from Edmunds after his 5th year option rather than sign him to a massive contract (obviously depends how he performs next year though). In that event, I would like to have a LB waiting in the wings to replace him. Just missing the cut would be the RB and TE position. Singletary and Knox are fine for the most part, but ideally Singletary would be a backup and we'd have a playable backup behind Knox.

Obviously a lot of what goes into coaching is behind the scenes stuff that we aren't privy to, but I think Leftwich has everything you could really look for in a coach, at least from an outside perspective. I think he has the right temperament for the job too. Hopefully he can get Lawrence headed in the right direction after a mostly disastrous rookie season.

Part of the problem is they don’t even get the good locals. JJ Starling is a McDonald’s All American and we’ve known for years now that we were nowhere near his top choice. There’s plenty of talent in what used to be our pipeline. We just don’t land them anymore and the coaching isn’t good either.

If the market for McKenzie ends up being weak, I'd take him cheap as our #4 WR going into the season. Just not really interested in anything more than that; we can almost certainly find a better WR to pair with Diggs and Davis without spending a ton. He's literally been one of the best #1 WRs in the league the past two years (and arguably before that as well).

Bummer to see him almost certainly go, but it was bound to happen this offseason. Best of luck to him and hopefully we find a good replacement.

I suppose the fun thing about losing this way is that we get to learn that a ton of people that cover the NFL don't understand how the game clock works with regards to squib kicks. It's pretty amazing seeing all these national writers, former coaches, players, etc. that think it's impossible to kneel a kick. The clock stops the moment the returner gives themselves up. Realistically if the ball was kicked to the 5 yard line, they probably let it bounce and see if it reaches the end zone (which it almost certainly would) and it turns into a touchback just like we gave them.

The days of a squib costing a team 3+ seconds are long gone. The chiefs would have fielded it on a knee or immediately kneeled. It wouldn’t have run any time off the clock unless they fumbled it. All it would have done is maybe given them better field position. Nothing wrong with the kickoff. Maybe you go for a regular kick that comes up a little short of the end zone but in all likelihood they’d just let it bounce into the end zone for a touchback anyways. The defense screwed up an easy situation for us.