You are clueless if you think Mahomes couldn't get much more money and Travis much more... Just to be clear. You think we should be offering CJ $32-33 per, with 75% guaranteed? Is that why you are angry? No one is going to be mad at Jones if he takes the bag, we just don't want the Chiefs to give it to him at this age. We hope he will take a discount to stay and if he doesn't his legacy as a Chief won't be as strong as if he had stayed his entire career here. ITS NOT THAT HARD...

No reason to, if you like the trade proposal. You will have some nice cap space to fill in on D and work on the O.

I would offer him 30mil and see where that goes.

And I don't know if Mahomes would have gotten more. Probably. I do know what he got which is the highest contract in NFL history.

You don't find it funny that the players you keep bringing up as taking "hometown discounts" signed the highest deals at their positions?

Everyone in this thread is clueless except a few who think they’re not, but who in reality are also clueless.

I’m not giving him 30 Donald’s contract was an albatross, top guys are getting mid 20s in their prime 27-28 is the most I would do .

Mahomes got paid chump change in the first 3 years of that deal. And before you say he had 2 years left on his rookie deal, so did Jared Goff & Carson Wentz a year earlier. Mahomes’ payout is a joke compared to those 2 guys, never mind the dudes that got their deals later. And he theoretically had way more leverage than any of them, given that he won MVP & Super Bowl in 2018 and 2019 heading into that new contract. Here’s the list:

2019 Goff: $82 million for 3 years
2019 Wentz: $77 million for 3 years
2020 Mahomes: $63 million for 3 years
2021 Allen: $95 million for 3 years
2023 Herbert: $134 million for 3 years
2023 Burrow: $146 million for 3 years

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Uhh. If Lombo’s numbers are right here…<br><br>Christian Wilkins is a Chief and Veach says goodbye to his two favorite brothers. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChiefsKingdom</a> ����*♂️ <a href="https://t.co/O6GVE4q3R5">pic.twitter.com/O6GVE4q3R5</a></p>&mdash; Cødy (@TheAvilaAnswer) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAvilaAnswer/status/1765190737245753666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's fair. I would do it because he has a longer track record of being elite than those guys, still playing elite and was the #2 player in pass rush wins as a DT despite also being the #1 player when it came to taking on double teams. He's a lot better than the other guys being signed right now.

That's literally just contract structuring. Some teams like to front load contracts. Some teams back load contracts. Some teams evenly load contracts. Ideally you do a mix depending on team needs at the time.

No, I listed the cash flow. Mahomes was paid absolute chump change compared to those other guys. This was not funny cap hit shenanigans, it was very low cash flow for a better player than his peers.

Still structuring. You see how last year it jumped 59+ mil+. Teams can structure layouts anyway they want. If Veach wants to give Chris $1 for each of the next two years and then suddenly have a $80mil cash payout, he can. Though I don't think Clark would go for that lol.

And Veach made an offer that reflected that. 2 year add on making it $27.5 million APY.

Chris wants $30 million + and that’s more than fair. I was fine with us reaching to around $30 million but I don’t think it’s responsible for us to go into the $31-33 million range.

Sucks but that’s best for both parties

The structure exists because Mahomes gave the team a massive discount in the first 3 years. 99.9% of the QB’s in history would not have done what he did in the circumstances of winning MVP & Super Bowl in back to back years. “Oh yeah, I am totally cool with being underpaid by $40 million over the next 3 years.” Rare as hell to do that.

Yeah at this point it is what it is. Like with Tyreek, I'd understand the decision, I just wouldn't like it. We'll see in 2 days I guess.

Wilkins at $20-22 million or Jones at $30-32 million? I think I'll take Wilkins and use that money to fill out another position.