Absolutely willing if the powers that be are comfortable with Nourzad or someone else at RG. Why not?

As DJ mentioned, we won Super Bowls with average to below-average players on the interior and good OTs.

Maybe those young guys would give you average to above-average. Even if it's not elite, you don't necessarily need elite. You just don't need Caliendo getting carried into his lap every down.

Yeah, but I think the question is whether you pay a wedge of money to Thuney or Smith. Probably the best argument is you may be freeing up a bit more tagging Smith and trading Thuney, than letting Smith walk and extending Thuney. Someone who's better on the cap implications than I can chime in.

The risk of losing Thuney is that IF you fail to improve appreciably at LT, or if you end up with a guy who's maybe a little better but not great (Dan Moore, Jaylon Moore etc) you may want to keep Thuney at LG. Because a Dan Moore and Kingsley situation could get pretty ugly.

I really, really hope Nourzad can be as good at guard as he looked at center for the Broncos game

The punter sucked shit the entire post-season as well. Doesn't mean I'm gonna extend him.

I just don't think Smith is a good investment at the cost and with the fact that he's not an ideal fit. Nor does he play a position that's all that difficult to field credibly. I see no reason at all to believe that some combination of Nourzad, Kingsley and Morris couldn't give me two credible OGs.

And that's where my analysis ends. How it relates to fixing OT (it doesn't) or how else I'd spend the money (I'm not sure; I'm not apprised as to all the alternatives available to me) are separate inquiries.

I just do not see a run-blocking RG being worth a market-setting contract. Full stop. It's not a position that matters enough and it's not a player that's ideally suited to this team.

The rest is a question for another day.

We gotta stop this shit.

We've agreed on damn near everything this off-season. I think Robinson is the most only spot where we disagree.

Been trying to have this conversation for 2 years now.

I'm told that I'm being 'ungrateful'.

Mahomes absolutely makes life hard on his OL. All of them.

I’ve been critical of Mahomes, but I’d replace every spot on the line before I’d replace Mahomes.

He needs to be better but we can’t have guys taking up like $70m in cap space combined getting wrecked by dudes like Bryce Huff, Jalyx Hunt and Brandon Graham fresh off a torn pec.


They still got worked far more than they should have.

What are we expecting the AAV for Smith’s deal to be? If it’s anything north of $15m you’re talking about sinking nearly $55m/year on average into the OL just from C-RT.

Crees may be worth it but Trey and Jawaan are probably not.

I wonder if Nourzad OSS looked at as an Allegretti type? 6th man and interior swing guy?

If we were able to snag a second rounder for Smith to get that extra capital, what would be the comfort level of an interior of…
LG- Kingsley
C - Humphrey
RG- Morris
We would have more money to throw at a guy like Ronnie Stanley or more draft assets to MAYBE trade for a Taylor Decker at LT? Maybe the Lions want to move Penei to LT and draft a young RT like Ersary?

LT- Stanley/Decker, Draft pick
LG- Kingsley, Hanson/Nourzad
C - Humphrey, Nourzad
RG- Morris, Nourzad
RT- Taylor, Driskol

Just thinking out loud. Not saying we should

While THAT is a fair point, we don't exactly have a solid LT (Fisher) and an elite RT (Schwartz) to make up for that interior deficiency at the moment. Feel like we'd be throwing Mahomes to the wolves and saying 'good luck, make something happen'

I'm all for the direction of that but it doesn't make sense till you have the tackle situation figured out first.

Smith got tagged for 23 million. His deal going to have to be average year of that amount. You can structure some of it to reduce the cap hit this year and next, if you sign him long term. But 15 is long gone.

Taylor's gone after this year, just like Thuney. I'd imagine the first year of Smith's deal will be a low hit, so these guys aren't going to cost that much this year, and even if they are it's just for one more year tops.

Regardless, Smith and Taylor didn't lose us that game any more than Mahomes or Kelce IMO. They played bad, but everybody did outside of ****ing Xavier Worthy. Maybe Creed played well too. I'm not going to let the left side being absolutely atrocious knock them any more than those other guys because of that.

At the end of the day, it was the SB, but it was one game. You don't build your entire team around that. The LT issue obviously has to be fixed after that disaster. Caliendo can never start another meaningful game ever again. Other than that, I think a lot of the SB reflection on these moves is an overreaction to one game at the end of the day.

That’s just the cost of the tag for one year. We can sign him to any amount he’ll agree to.

If we sign Trey to a deal with AAV north of $23m I will ****ing lose it.

Oh sir. I'm so very, very sorry.

If you think we're getting him for less than $21 million I just don't know what to tell ya. And honestly I do think the floor is that $23 million tag figure.

You can hate it but we're gonna do it.

Yep.

Veach will make the cap hit reasonable for this year, but the overall is what it is.

OMG.

I just checked the comps and you’re probably right. Landon Dickerson, who is about Trey’s age, just signed last year for $21m per.

I’m going to be sick..