Bet Miles Austin gets cut.. Has really done nothing since he last played the Chiefs when he beat them in OT.

They also signed Chris Canty, Elvis Dumervil, Micheal Huff and traded for Eugene Monroe.

Less money under the cap means less money to spend on FAs.

Teicher

I'm not sure extending Hali is a good idea, he was looking pretty slow late in the season.

This team is decent without changing very much.


I agree with you.

I think this is the update part:

The Chiefs also have a salary-cap carryover of $2,381,518 they will add to the league’s limit, buying them some extra room.

1. Who the hell is David Canter and why should I care.

2. Why would giving Alex Smith more than the $7.5m he's scheduled to make this year make his cap hit lighter? We're going to have to double that.

We brought DeVito on board at $5m a year.

You're going to have to pay that to keep TJax.

Hatcher's going to stay in Dallas. He's in his twilight years and finally found a defense he can thrive in.

Suggs has a deal worth 28.5 mil over 5 years, his cost never goes over 6 mil in any of those seasons. If Hali signs a similar deal, he can easily be released if the organization feels that he is no longer worth the money at any point. I think that deal makes a lot more sense than keeping Hali at his current price tag for 2 more seasons and just letting him go. He's not a pass rusher that ever relied on superior speed to beat his opponent, he'll still be effective for a few more years, especially if we bring someone in to groom behind him and give him some rest.

David Canter is Sean Smith & Eric Weddles agent. He's the business and how teams work.

The longer-term you sign a player, the more he's going to cost you when you cut him.

Fair enough.

I just don't understand how paying Alex Smith twice what he's scheduled to make lowers his cap number.

we won't have a clean cap in 2015 but can't we get out of a lot of these contracts after the '14 season where it actually saves the Chiefs money and the cap hit is a lot lower, Flowers and Smith come to mind here, I think Hali in 2015 saves money as well. the Chiefs will only take a small hit in dead money, think of it like what the Saints and Falcons did where they cut like 4 or 5 veterans at a time. That could be us, next year. Rather than restructuring and extending more years, of course.

I'd love to ask him that and different questions about how this stuff works. Maybe compile some questions from CP members regarding the salary cap, free agency, and the relationship between agents and teams. It could be interesting and he's a real cool guy who's answered just about any football related question i've asked him.