Well yea, there are a lot if moving parts to staying on top of the SB contender list and many ways to fall off.

But as far as Mahomes' cash, are they storing up bigger problems or managing their cap better?

Dallas has a bunch of dudes on rookie contracts who will be very expensive pretty soon. Dak Prescott was on a 4-year deal, so he's gonna be asking for a new contract around $60M per year very soon. But if they follow the Eagles' structure on Jalen Hurts, they can push the bigger cap hits out pretty far into the future.

Lamar Jackson's contract supposedly has cap hits of $74M in 2026 and 2027, but I suspect Baltimore is gonna wiggle out of those bigger cap numbers with some creative accounting.

Mahomes did this. What other proof do you need? He came to the table and he wanted more money both in guaranteed and average per year.

The Chiefs were fine with the team friendly contract when it was signed back in 2020 but Mahomes got greedy. He wanted his yearly cap hit average to be at the top again so blame him.

And it's gonna be really ****ing hard to win the next 2 years after this with him making so much and picking late in the draft.

Him and his agent have already said they will revisit the contract in 2026 to do the next installment, so the $57 million and $60 million cap hits the next 2 years are pretty much finalized.

Hopefully he figures out, if he hasn't already this year, how making so much hurts his legacy and goes with another team friendly deal when they redo it again in 3 years.

All irrelevant in the bigger picture of the cap hits.

The cap hits to the QB are the important issues to managing the roster next few years. The cash out is not my problem or yours.

All I know is Lamar is getting the exact same cash (actually more cash) than Mahomes over the same time period, and Baltimore has figured out a way to build a better team around him.

How about not wasting $20M per year on the most penalized offensive lineman in the entire league? Taylor ain't that great at pass protection or run-blocking, even if you want to ignore the penalty problems.

How about not wasting $10-11M per year on MVS when the Packers & Rodgers wanted to get rid of the guy? The KC front office has had some poor evaluations.

Overall, other than Taylor, KC isn't carrying a lot of long term bad contracts.

MVS is bad and Thuney cap hit near year is gross but we also have tons of good to great players on rookie deals.

We are in a strong position but the strategy has to change.

If Veach is planning for SB window 7 years from now that needs to stop.

He needs to focus on maxing out rings next 3-4 years.

thats prob cause Jerry is pushing all the monies forward.....there is only so much to go around

Lamar is on a 3 year $156 million contract. There's no way in hell the Ravens pay a 30 year old glorified RB with that much wear and tear $74 million in a cap hit with that remaining money in 2026.

They went through this with Flacco so why wouldn't they with Lamar?

And they got good players like Ronnie Stanley, Marlon Humphrey, Zay Flowers and Kyle Hamilton bc they had a lot of down years and picked in the teens, not the end of every round like us.

Just wait. That team will look different soon enough. Lamar makes top 10 QB money starting next year. Their star DT who is a FA is probably gone bc of that.

This is by far their best chance to win a ring with Lamar

Where are you getting these numbers?

So you think they will get rid of Lamar in a couple years? It will be interesting to see how it goes. Harbaugh is a solid coach and they seem to do a pretty good job with the Draft evaluations and such.

Lamar's athleticism is his calling card so they need to win now before he is past 30.

They are doing everything correctly.

Zay Flowers was selected in the 20's. They have been one of the top NFL teams at drafting for a long time.

Yup. And the Ravens messed up badly at WR last year like the Chiefs did this year. Just like the Bengals did with their OL or the Bills with their defense.

No team is infallible

Spotrac.com. If I remember right, some of the money for Mahomes in 2023 is actually incentives earned in 2022 for winning MVP and the Super Bowl. It was originally reported that he was getting $56 million this year but they're now listing it at $59 million.

https://i.ibb.co/9wZKDB8/Lamar-Mahomes-cash-flow.jpg

I use OTC and they break it down differently. Either way, it is pretty tough to make an assumption about building a team around him with only one year of that new contract when his cap hit is only $22 Million. While Mahome's cap hit is $37 million and climbing much faster than Jackson's It is the cap hits that matter not the cash.
The difference is that we have been drafting 32 or 31 for 4 years now and they have been drafting at around 20. HUGE difference. That affects every round in the draft.
The huge signing bonus for his new 6-year $260 Million contract is most of that cash.

This draft looks a lot better at wr than last year. Lots of big fast guys and a few burners too. I’m guessing that we sign a cheap fa wr and draft a wr or two in the draft.