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I guess that's one warm weather team with a solid QB that won't be in on DK Metcalf now. Adams with Nacua is a scary thought though.

If they had an offseason that was less than this mock projection - this place is going to be unbearable.

It was a mock involving trades.

Creating Space: Josh Allen Extension: 11.8m Saved (Done) Greg Rousseau Extension: 9.8m Saved (Done) Connor McGovern Extension: 4.2m Saved Von Miller Cut: 8.4m Saved (Done) Ed Oliver Restructure: 8.7m Saved Dion Dawkins Restructure: 9.8m Saved Dawson Knox Restructure: 6.3m Saved Approximately 49.3m Under the Cap Re-Sign: RB Ty Johnson: 2 yrs, 6m FB Reggie Gilliam: 2 yrs, 5.5m WR Mack Hollins: 1 yr, 3m TE Quintin Morris: 1 yr, 2.5m LS Reid Ferguson, 2 yrs, 3m (Done) Free Agents Signed: DE Josh Sweat: 3 yrs, 60m CB Charvarius Ward: 2 yrs, 30m WR Josh Palmer: 2 yrs, 10m (Done at 3 yrs, 36m) DT Bobby Brown: 2 yrs, 7m DE Deatrich Wise: 1 yr, 3.5m NFL Draft (with trades): Round 1: DT Darius Alexander (Toledo) Round 2: DE Jared Ivey (Ole Miss) Round 2: WR Jaylin Noel (Iowa State) Round 3: S Kevin Winston (Penn State) Round 4: CB Dorian Strong (Virginia Tech) Round 5: RB Jarquez Hunter (Auburn) Round 6: TE CJ Dippre (Alabama) Thoughts: - Joe is usually much more conservative than this. When I put on the video, I wasn't expecting he'd have Josh Sweat and Charvarius Ward on his list. Both players I would be really happy with. Though I'd bet Sweat will cost more than 20m after the deals to Garrett and Crosby. - I'd like to see something a little more at WR then Mack returning, a 2nd Round speedster, and Josh Palmer. But he makes a good argument for why Palmer would fit this offense well. - I wouldn't re-sign Morris and I'd probably pass on paying Gilliam that much. - I agree that with the roster as it would be after his moves in Free Agency, we wouldn't have room for 10 Draft Picks. So he probably would move around a bit using those picks. All in all, a fun video by Joe and an offseason i'd be relatively happy with. I really like what I've seen from Josh Sweat and how he could fit in with this Defense, opposite Groot. And a Christian Benford, Charvarius Ward starting duo would be a big step up from last season.

Here's the thing - there isn't 32 quality starters in the NFL. Let alone quality backups. And when it comes to the Top Backups, they choose to go to the following situations: - A team that has nothing at QB where they might at least be able to compete for a starting job. - A team that has a Top Pick and will select a Rookie that may not be ready Day 1 and they can be a bridge. - A team with an often injured QB - A team that has an underperforming young starter that could be pulled. - A team that has a weak veteran starter that could be pulled. We check literally none of those boxes. Josh is the MVP and thus far (knock on wood) doesn't miss time. A quality backup looks at this situation and says "I have no chance to see the field". Because of that, we're always going to have to settle for the Mitch Trubisky's, Kyle Allen's, and Case Keenum's of the world.

Garrett and Diggs want/wanted out and either made that known or went nuclear publicly to make that happen. Cook wants the Bills to pay him. There is no comparison there.

You're putting words in my mouth. That's not what I said. What I said is it is slightly concerning or eyebrow raising to see him tie up such a slice of the pie in future years on bringing back so many of these players. Especially given that his MO that he has been raked over the coals for years over is re-signing good to pretty good players at the cost of bringing in great players. It's starting to feel like more of the same. And I'm far from the only one worried that he's falling into the same patterns. We'll see what happens. Hoping for the best. But add a Benford and/or Cook in there and we're taking up a large portion of the pie in the later years where we'd be pushing the big numbers for bigger pieces via Trade this year.

Gotta be honest - I'm a little concerned when it comes to the Cap. Extensions in a vacuum provide more this year. But if we're getting someone big, we're going to have to push the big numbers into years that follow. And Bernard and Rousseau are guys I wouldn't have put on the books for bigger numbers in 2026, 2027, and so on. If we extend Benford (as we should) and/or Cook - then we're really cutting into things in future years. To me, one of the things that we'd need to do to get one (or more) of the bigger ticket items this offseason was probably not re-signing most of these guys. And he seems to want to bring them all back.

He's not Saquon and he's not going to be paid like Saquon. He knows that. But when Saquon's getting 21m - his asking for 15m that fans were tearing him to shreds over and Beane wouldn't do, becomes a fair market value. It justified him. I'd be excited too.

Nothing wrong with not wanting a RB to eat up a whole bunch of cap. I am of the mind we shouldn't either (even though I love Cook as a player). But the insults and acting personally offended bc he's making it known he's not happy about how negotiations are going, which is based in his wanting to be here (or else why would he be upset with it?), by fans is ridiculous and unnecessary.

I wonder if that isn't part of the hold up. He was concussed twice in the span of a week. The last one looked scary. On top of Cornerback being a trickier market than say Slot WR and Middle Linebacker is - there may be some concern over his long term health.

Do you think he started complaining without knowing what Beane was willing to pay him? Do you think Shakir, Rousseau, and Bernard came together in the same day? Each of them were signed to fairly team friendly deals. Especially Rousseau, who signed for less than what his expected market value was. Pretty clear that Beane had a number in mind and Cook and his people had a number in mind. And unlike the other 3, they "weren't on the same page", as Beane put it. The number he had in mind ended up being about what his market value actually is, after the Barkley trade. If Beane wanted to pay it, we wouldn't have heard anything. The guy wants to get paid top dollar and I don't fault him for that. This idea that's floating around that "if he would have kept his mouth shut, he'd have been paid like the other three" is ridiculous. If he wanted to take a team friendly deal like they did, sure. But that's not what he's looking for.

I'd expect he'll still get hit with a 4 game suspension like Von did. No charges were filed against Von either. Suspension still came for conduct unbecoming.

Here's the thing: if he owns the place or his name is on the lease - then why hasn't he called the Cops and said "this is my place, I don't want this person here and she won't leave"? It's either his place, in which case he can call the police and have that person removed. Or it's a place they share - in which case, get up and leave yourself. He's a millionaire, just get another place. How about just not putting yourself in that situation? Or removing yourself from the situation? I don't think you sound as cool as you think you do saying you'll hit a woman back. No excuse to strike or choke a woman. I don't care what's happening. She's getting physical, you get outta there. F-ck outta here with this "F around and Find out" bullsh-t. Two wrongs don't make a right and I don't care who starts it - a man doesn't put his hands on a woman like that and you're scum of the earth if you do.

Patriots, Chiefs, and many other teams saying "drats!" right now. Top target for many teams this offseason stays put.

Yeah, when you have one WR who went down for the year and has yet to get his suspension for their off the field incident last year and then another WR get arrested for felony domestic assault of their girlfriend - you pretty much don't have a choice. 11m for him (even on paper) is a pretty big number. But he had some crazy leverage, thanks to Worthy being an awful human being.

I didn't word that as well as I'd have liked to. Apologies, I was half awake. What I was trying to to get across is that, generally, what he is now is by and large the ceiling for a late 6th Round Offensive Tackle. Just as many late 6th Round OT's who make a 53 are outright cut in the first or second year. It's pretty rare that they develop into full time starters and exceedingly rare that they would become starters by Year 2. My overall point was that Pete's idea that we're doing him and the team some kind of massive disservice by having him as one of our off the bench Offensive Tackles behind studs like Dawkins and Brown is a wild take to me. He's in a good spot right now for where he was Drafted. You keep saying this and it's an overvaluation of the guys who aren't on the 53. We cut Gouraige every season. He's been made available to every team in the league since he's been here. We cut him, no one signs him, and then we have no issue bringing him back to the Practice Squad and keeping him on the Practice Squad. We don't even know what Clayton is. He's a guy who has never played Football before. He's an International Pathway Program guy who's literally learning how to play the game. He's way behind most every Practice Squad lineman in the league. Mike Edwards is like Richard Gouraige. An Undrafted Free Agent who we cut after Training Camp. Again, we had no problem getting back and keeping him on the Practice Squad, when he could have been poached at any time. None of these 3 thus far have proven to be anyone we should be worrying about losing. Especially when the 9 we keep on the 53 and the starting OL performed so well last year. There are teams out there with better Offensive Lineman in their Practice Squad, as evidenced by OL poached from PS while Gouraige and Edwards stayed put. If someone were to sign one of them, I'd say "good for them". As you said, we aren't going to keep more than 9, maybe 10 on the roster. You keep the best 9 or 10 and if anyone wants to give us something for another player, you take it. Otherwise, you cut them. Simple as that. And I'd bet you dollars to donuts there's going to be other OL brought in with Late Round picks or as UDFA's that may push one or more of these guys off the team as well.

Just what I was about to say. Seeing a lot of "Chiefs gonna Chiefs" posts and some from handles that I've definitely seen rake Beane over the coals for not Drafting Worthy.

You're acting like Undrafted Practice Squad Players, International Pathway Program Players, 6th and 7th Rounders are Pro Bowlers. Clayton is still learning how to play Football and spent the entire year on IR. Grable is a Late 6th Rounder from UCF that also spent the majority of his Rookie year on IR. Gouraige is an Undrafted FA that has been cut two years in a row and could have been signed by anyone in the league and has lived in the Practice Squad. These guys are nice developmental players. But they aren't "Oh my god - we have to have them in the Starting Lineup now" guys. I'm a little perplexed by the "Tylan Grable is so talented, we have to get him on the field and supplant a solid starter right now, at another position" take you have right now. He was essentially redshirted after Week 3 for 3 months on IR for a Groin injury. Only dressed for 4 games all last year. He's a 6th Round developmental OT player. That's the type of prospect that's ceiling is generally a Backup. That's what he is right now and what he'll be. He's shown some flashes in Pre-Season and spot duty. But he hasn't done anything thus far that has me thinking he needs to be in the Starting Lineup immediately. Dawkins Edwards McGovern Torrence Brown - Van Demark Anderson Van-Pran Granger Grable That's your OL for the 53. Same as it was at year end last year. Again, we *finally* had a very good Offensive Line. I can't fathom feeling like "yeah, we need to mess with this".

TYLAN Grable is an Offensive Tackle. We always carry 4 and he's our 4th. He played Tackle in College and played Tackle in the Pre-Season and he played Tackle in Week 18. He also spent most of his Rookie year on IR. Predicting a 6th Rounder who played in 4 total games is going to switch positions and immediately become a Starter is a wild take. I don't see them converting him to Guard and I certainly don't see them thinking David Edwards needs to be replaced. He'll be at Tackle in Training Camp. And they're not going to want to mess with the continuity of an Offensive Line that was as good as it's ever been. There's many ways we can come up with Cap. We finally got a good OL. Let's leave that alone.

Post June 1st doesn't get us under the cap now. We don't get that cap space until after June 1st. I would expect them to do something with Milano's contract. But I don't see him being cut. Edwards was part of the best Offensive Line we've had under this regime. You're not messing with that. Edwards is a bargain for what he's bringing. You'd be hard pressed finding a new Guard on the 4m he'd save. He's not going anywhere.

They'll have to overpay for people to come there. But with 125m - that won't be a problem for them. DK Metcalf might want a contender and a warm weather climate. But if they offer him a contract that tops Justin Jefferson as the highest paid WR in NFL History? That might change things...

Daniel Jeremiah reported today on Pat McAfee that everyone around the league believes he's going to New England: DK has adamantly stated he doesn't want to go there. And it's a cold weather team. But the problem we could run into is if Seattle decides they don't care what DK wants and New England decides they'll give up a 2nd for him, even if there's no guarantee they'll be able to keep him beyond this year. And with 125m in cap space, they may feel they can offer him a massive, overpay contract that can get him to change his mind. Their 2nd is practically a 1st and our 2nd's are practically 3rd's. We'd have to give up our 1st to get him and there's no way in hell we'd do that if he's not interested in signing a long term deal.

Oh man. The HerdMentality x Joe Marino public crash out continues 😂