If Clark Hunt can't pay his players then sell the team or trade the QB.

I doubt Mr. Hunt agrees with that. The NFL gives these teams free money every year.

That doesn't even seem possible, the Chiefs really need to dig into how teams are doing this shit. If Mahomes is over his willingness to take a team friendly deal, we need to start circumventing like everyone else. Don't really care what happens 10 years from now.

They don't even have to be that aggressive.

Just keep Mahomes under 40 for a few years as cap rises then be willing to overpay hits on a down cycle.

So if we rebuild 4 years from now after winning 2 more rings load Mahomes hits to 75 then.

What happens to the 5.4 million of Prorated Bonus's due to Jones? 1.35 million per year for 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027. Won't that be 5.4 million in dead money against the cap in 2024?

Even if they are in cap hell, they are still competing. Plus, I'd still do it in a heartbeat if it meant more Super Bowls.

Wouldn't you feel the same? You have a generational QB, do you really care if you have a few sucky years after he's gone if you can win a couple chips? Seems like the only way to go for teams like KC and Cincy.

Time is now.

I said this last offseason.

QB's prime is historically to 31 years of age.

Kelce still here.

Go get it.

Yes, you absolutely can throw anything and everything and the kitchen sink at fixing the WR problem and no doubt fix that one problem.

If all you want to do is make sure that Mahomes has weapons and the fan base feels you are trying to address 'issues', well I'm sure it will keep butts in seats at Arrowhead.

But if you want to maximize your chances of winning SBs, you have to juggle more than one thing at a time.

Instead of taking the approach that we are going to bring in an expensive vet and an expensive draft choice and a semi-expensive vet... in order to guarantee a solution to one problem.

If you want to maximize your SB odds, you got to take calculated gambles to several problems. And hope enough work out. And look a little further out than last games latest disaster.

I sure as hell hope Veach doesn't panic and put that much into WR.

And you guys in hindsight were/are whining about how much KC's RT is eating the cap versus production and you want to dump that much into WR all at once regardless of value?

Sure, if good value is there, I'm not opposed. But the overpay is what gave us Taylor at his current contract and you can't just know that decently priced vets and/or good value draft picks will automatically be available without over paying or not drafting BPA or giving up too much to move up in the draft.

Other teams seem to be using void years in a creative way. Tampa did this with Brady too. He was being paid $35M of cash with cap hits around $15M because of the void years.

Cleveland handed Deshaun Watson a fully guaranteed contract at $46M of cash per year, and yet his cap hits have only been $9.4M and $19M in the first two years of the deal. I know they added void year stuff after the fact to help cheat the cap as much as possible. Supposedly his cap hits will be jumping north of $63M very soon, but we'll see what other tricks the Cleveland front office has up their sleeves.

They need to pay some real NFL players at WR.

That's it.

Right now they aren't paying one guy that Mahomes wants to throw to.

The Chiefs did have a perfect contract in place paying him a team friendly contract. They were on track to pay Patrick Mahomes $46.7 million, $48.3 million and $44.4 million from 2024-2026.

Mahomes came to the table and wanted more money. And Clark Hunt is paying his ass $210 million in the next 3 years after this one, so anyone getting pissed at Clark Hunt can **** off bc that's the most any player has ever made over a 4 year span.

Mahomes agent said that him and the Chiefs will plan on revisiting the contract again once those 4 years play out.

Anyone bitching about how much Mahomes makes should point the finger directly at Mahomes bc the Chiefs had the awesome team friendly deal in place to help the cap.

Mahomes chose to go with money and I bet more than anything he regrets it after what's happened with his WR's this year.

Oh I have no problem with an extended period of cap hell after Mahomes is gone and would be sort of disappointed if that's not the case.

The question is...

why didn't they do that when they rewrote it last year?

None of this has anything to do with his cap hits. They can change those.

That was the whole point of the unique contract and length.

Yes, they need to do something. But it can't be the only thing.

I think Veach and Reid got high on their own supply.

Both undervalue the WR position and they thought they could moneyball it even further.

They add DHop at 10-12 cap hit this year and one more viable NFL WR this team walks to the AFC Championship at Arrowhead for 6th straight year.