.10; you pay for the first minute, get the next 5 free!

That's a different discussion and one that was already had for the majority of last offseason, OTA's and minicamp. My point in response to your original comment was that it's not up to Brown(or any player for that matter) whether ot not the get tagged. The team and the team alone holds that power.

It's all covered in 1 and 3. They couldn't come to an agreement last year. And all Brown did was go to the PB and anchor one of the best offensive line performances of all time.

Sure, it's possible his asking price has gone up. Probable even.

It's also possible that the Chiefs think he's worth MORE than what he wanted last year.

We simply don't know anything.

I think Veach knew that if Brown called his bluff, he'd have to rescind the tag.

If the agent says "We're not signing it and he has $20 million in his pocket from playing football so we're not playing on it - ever", Veach can't very well go into camp hoping he'll change his mind with no real plan at LT.

Meanwhile the $20 million he'd use to fill that hole or put together a plan B is tied up in the tag.

So he'd have to rescind it and by then the market has dried up. That's why I think they won't use the draft to get handle the OT position and why Jawaan Taylor still seems like the most logical alternative.

If they were content using the draft, they'd go that route to build in their plan B without worrying about the cap being tied up. But they WANT that cap space available so they simply aren't going to put the tag on him.

The more I think on it, the more obvious the justification becomes.

I'm sure you've said it before earlier but do you think that Taylor can do an adequate job at LT?

Yep.

He'd made about $3.5 million in his career and had no leverage last season. He's not gonna pass on a $16 million, life altering payday.

There wasn't a realistic possibility he wouldn't sign the tag last season. He just didn't want to go through full OTAs, IMO.

This season it's different and we knew it would be.

True. I don't disagree with you. I could be wrong and will gladly acknowledge that if they sign him. I just struggle to see the gap between what he wanted last year vs this year and what KC offered him last year vs this year closing any. In my opinion it has probably widened. The only unknown is what the team truly feels his value is. It could be higher than what we think, I just don't know on that.

It depends on how much he ends up getting paid.

Sure, Tayler can do an adequate job but at what cost? If he gets into the $18M range, the salary save isn't enough to justify the potential drop-off in production. He have to come in cheaper than that for it to really be worth it.

JMHO

And in the end, that's really all I'm saying. We just don't know, at least not yet. It will become much more clear soon, though. If they're truly going to let him test FA, he'll get offers the second the new league year begins next week.

Any possibility they are doing this to possibly look at locking in Sneed/Gay/Bolton (if they are eligible to extend him yet)? Not sure, but wondering if that free space is for something like that.

It would be the flexibility of the contract and the long term deal making his 2023 cap number much lower than the tag.

Orlando wanted full guarantees beyond signing.

I think it's more about the guys that are current FAs. Veach had his hands tied early in FA last year with the Hill deal and he had to pivot last minute after the trade. It worked out but I don't think that was his plan.

Except that Veach explicitly stated he wants guys that are going to be here for the long haul. If you don't give Taylor those guarantees, he's essentially signing a standard contract that, while it lowers the initial cap hit, makes the out years cut years. That's really not a long-term strategy, IMO.

Isn't Taylor a RT?