Understanding Chiefs Free Agency 101

[ping2000]

Step 1: Resign and overpay your own free agents who sucked the year before. "Hey, they suck, but we know them well"

Step 2: Invite decent free agents to town. Tell them that you need a couple of weeks to think things over. Let them leave. Ask them to let you match any other offers they get. Watch them sign elsewhere. Have a press conference explaining to fans that "we tried to sign him" Save money!

Step 3: Make sure all backup quarterbacks on the roster have thrown less than five passes in actual NFL games. This makes scouting by opponents impossible!

Step 4: Save more money by signing players with major injury questions. There is a 10% chance Kendrell Bell and Carlos Hall could be healthy for 1-2 games a year. That's 1-2 wins!

[Andoverer]

We better hope for an outstanding draft.

:banghead:

[jidar]

Ah yes, the annual free agency whine fest.
You gotta love it.

[JBucc]

We better hope for an outstanding draft.

:banghead:ROFL good one

[jAZ]

Acutally, I think the major model that they follow is

1) Only spend large signing bonus money every other year... this limits the big FA splash (regardless of available cap space) to every other year.

2) When they do target a FA need, wait out the market. Let the DC's of the world spend their cap money on the biggest and most likely to be overpaid FAs... leaving a tighter market for those guys who are demanding big money, and while talented aren't worth the dollar signs they have in their own eyes.

3) If anyone is left who fits a need and projects a value, sign them to moderate contracts.

[morphius]

SStep 3: Make sure all backup quarterbacks on the roster have thrown less than five passes in actual NFL games. This makes scouting by opponents impossible!

Could you be more wrong on an assumption? Its probably been at least a decade that our backups were starters before coming here. Gannon, Collins, Moon all were starters at some point in the career. That really doesn't even explain Huard either.

[Sure-Oz]

The draft is the only thing im looking forward to till the season starts....sigh

[Archie Bunker]

IMO Herm wants to build the D the same way most Cover 2 D's (Indy, Tampa, Chicago, etc) built their D by getting young fast players on the field and signing very few big name FA. To make this strategy work the Chiefs must find a CB, FS, DE, and DT either through the draft or by someone on the team stepping up.

Can Hodge, Battle, or a rookie provide an upgrade over Warfield?
Can a healty Hall, Wilkerson, or a rookie provide an upgrade over Hicks?
Can Krumrie get the most out of Sims and Savaii?
Can Fox step up take over the OLB spot from Bell?
Can Wesley become a decent FS?

Those are the real important ?'s that must be answered. It is a gamble but the defense cant get much worse so why not roll the dice on the kids the Chiefs have and the 2 or 3 rookies that should contribute. It is called a youth movement and the Chiefs should have done it years ago.

[TEX]

Acutally, I think the major model that they follow is

1) Only spend large signing bonus money every other year... this limits the big FA splash (regardless of available cap space) to every other year.

2) When they do target a FA need, wait out the market. Let the DC's of the world spend their cap money on the biggest and most likely to be overpaid FAs... leaving a tighter market for those guys who are demanding big money, and while talented aren't worth the dollar signs they have in their own eyes.

3) If anyone is left who fits a need and projects a value, sign them to moderate contracts.


I'd also like to add that you must cut said free agents in point # 1 after a couple of years... :shake:

[htismaqe]

Acutally, I think the major model that they follow is

1) Only spend large signing bonus money every other year... this limits the big FA splash (regardless of available cap space) to every other year.

2) When they do target a FA need, wait out the market. Let the DC's of the world spend their cap money on the biggest and most likely to be overpaid FAs... leaving a tighter market for those guys who are demanding big money, and while talented aren't worth the dollar signs they have in their own eyes.

3) If anyone is left who fits a need and projects a value, sign them to moderate contracts.

Please don't try to inject a dose of reality into the conversation.

[TEX]

IMO Herm wants to build the D the same way most Cover 2 D's (Indy, Tampa, Chicago, etc) built their D by getting young fast players on the field and signing very few big name FA. To make this strategy work the Chiefs must find a CB, FS, DE, and DT either through the draft or by someone on the team stepping up.

Can Hodge, Battle, or a rookie provide an upgrade over Warfield?
Can a healty Hall, Wilkerson, or a rookie provide an upgrade over Hicks?
Can Krumrie get the most out of Sims and Savaii?
Can Fox step up take over the OLB spot from Bell?
Can Wesley become a decent FS?

Those are the real important ?'s that must be answered. It is a gamble but the defense cant get much worse so why not roll the dice on the kids the Chiefs have and the 2 or 3 rookies that should contribute. It is called a youth movement and the Chiefs should have done it years ago.

Well, it helps if the youth has talent. Otherwise it might as well be another type of movement.

[FloridaMan88]

Acutally, I think the major model that they follow is

1) Only spend large signing bonus money every other year... this limits the big FA splash (regardless of available cap space) to every other year.

2) When they do target a FA need, wait out the market. Let the DC's of the world spend their cap money on the biggest and most likely to be overpaid FAs... leaving a tighter market for those guys who are demanding big money, and while talented aren't worth the dollar signs they have in their own eyes.

3) If anyone is left who fits a need and projects a value, sign them to moderate contracts.


And this strategy that Carl has used has led to how many playoff wins the past decade? I count zero.

This model is the guideline to how to finish 7-9, 8-8.

[tk13]

And this strategy that Carl has used has led to how many playoff wins the past decade? I count zero.

This model is the guideline to how to finish 7-9, 8-8.
Yeah right! This is very similar to what the Pats, Colts, Steelers do... guideline to 8-8 my behind.

[shaneo69]

Step 1: Resign and overpay your own free agents who sucked the year before. "Hey, they suck, but we know them well"

Step 2: Invite decent free agents to town. Tell them that you need a couple of weeks to think things over. Let them leave. Ask them to let you match any other offers they get. Watch them sign elsewhere. Have a press conference explaining to fans that "we tried to sign him" Save money!

Step 3: Make sure all backup quarterbacks on the roster have thrown less than five passes in actual NFL games. This makes scouting by opponents impossible!

Step 4: Save more money by signing players with major injury questions. There is a 10% chance Kendrell Bell and Carlos Hall could be healthy for 1-2 games a year. That's 1-2 wins!

Step 5: Have ass-kissing columnists on official site defend all of Carl's moves, rip the teams who actually sign high-profile FA's, and explain how the Chiefs are actually improving by signing nobody.

[NaptownChief]

Yeah right! This is very similar to what the Pats, Colts, Steelers do... guideline to 8-8 my behind.


Only one difference and a very significant one at that is those teams actually draft well so when they go to resign their own players they are actually pretty good.