Pay Mahomes now for less or wait for a couple of yrs?
 

Pay Mahomes now for ultimately less money

or

Wait a year or two for an increased chance to win more super bowls immediately


If we don't pay Mahomes immediately we can keep Chris Jones and pretty much anyone else. In 3 years, the salary cap will be higher and let us handle Jones in his 3rd yr and Mahomes in his 1st yr of their new contracts.


The risk and reward are huge; maybe win 2 more super bowls vs maybe piss Mahomes off

The sooner you pay him, the happier AND cheaper he’ll be.

yea, but winning a super bowl next year will be much harder.

We have so much talent in their prime, what is your priority?

Pay him. Then figure the rest out. If, and I don’t think there’s anyway this happens, but if you piss him off and he were to walk in a couple years, it would go down as the biggest **** up in the history of sports.

The priority is locking up the best player in football to be on our team for the next 20 years. He's cheapest TODAY....and odds are a new CBA will bail us out to some degree.


But I'll say this - Veach knows what he's doing. They'll do the best thing and Pat won't get away an he WILL be the highest paid player ever. Those things are certain. Don't worry.

You might not have a choice. He has enough leverage to hold out. Do I think he would want to do that? Heck no. But his agent might force him to do it because of the injury risk.

Where is the “Pay him now to save money and get players in the future” option?

Shitty poll. Way more options than those two.

It’s all about good faith. Operate in good faith he will too

Make damn sure (in a nice way) he gets that he is worth big $$$$ but if he plans on winning another SB it would help if he could get by with something more team friendly. If he seems agitated or put off by that kind of talk then pay the man, worry later.

This. While I think it's absurd to pay any QB roughly 20% of the team's cap money, it's a fact of life, especially for PMII. I don't think he's the kind of guy that's so short-sighted he'd hamstring the team to the point of losing any chance to play in multiple SBs and not cementing his legacy as the GOAT. Plus, he's publicly stated he wants to play here forever, he loves the town.

Just add years to his current deal. Huge signing bonus spread out and keep his cap number low next two years.

That’s what always happens. That why it’s a contract extension not a new deal. They will wait till the new CBA is done, though. The new deal will have specific language for QB contracts. Pat, Andy, Brett and Clark all know this.

He’s not getting a brand new deal. He’s getting an extension. So you’re adding years onto his current deal. He won’t have a $40 million dollar cap hit this year.

Mahomes is worth everything he could get. However I would like to see him sign a cap friendly deal allow us to spend freely to keep the team loaded with talent. Mahomes has the personality, looks and intelligence to clean up in the endorsement world.