It’s weird.

There are lots of people here who don’t make money covering the Chiefs who are way more creative and intuitive about free agency and the cap.

I would love if we could somehow convince Jamaal Williams to sign. He tweeted that he and the Packers are parting ways. He’s a great complementary back who is tough, can catch the ball out of the backfield, and is solid in goal line situations.

We need ALL THE WILLIAMS!

MOAR WILLIAMS!

Sign Pooka Williams UDFA!!!!

Sign Serena Williams for her to play Tight End.

ROFL :clap:

Seems everything the Pats are doing is for naught. Cam is garbage, and BB literally lucked into Brady being Brady. They can add whoever they want, but we know the QB is the sauce.

Can’t be worse than Keizer.

There's usually 4 or 5 WRs named Mike Willams in the NFL at any given time. We should grab one of them.

With all of this FA movement going on, it is going to be interesting to see what the next mocks will be and how the draft might change. :hmmm:

Could some players possibly fall?

Corey Davis to the Jets. 3/37.

Gonna be rough out there for WR if that’s what he gets. That’s about $6M/year less than projected.

Another strong WR draft. Makes more sense to try and draft the next Jefferson, Ayuik, Claypool, Higgins, etc

maybe he's in on Mac Jones.

Pfft...charge it to the Veachsa

When we sign Will i am

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My first thought as well - I can definitely see this as an option for them.

Ok, just going to say that it’s interesting that Trent Williams didn’t sign on day one.

Maybe he really wants to get paid, or perhaps his market isn’t quite as strong as predicted. Don’t get me wrong, dudes going to get paid. Just saying.

He's working with Veach on a complex deal. No worries.

It’s pretty much the 49ers or the Chiefs and the fact, that he chose to test FA bodes well for us.

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IN PISED OF!!!! ****!!!!!

HURRY UP BURNT VEG !!!

Smedley, is that you?

The #Panthers are in trade talks with the #Chiefs about Anthony Hitchens, which could also deal Shaq Thompson in the trade.

Fake tweet.

That’s a bullshit tweet from earlier.

Oh shit my bad, it was just tweeted now.

It got me too, kind sir.

Signing Thuney was so ****ing brilliant. Reid likes long, lean-ish, quick, mobile guards and they go out and get the prototype. Two veteran, high-quality guards in Thuney and LDT give a long leash to a rookie center and possibly right tackle. Worst case scenario is they throw Allegretti out at Center which isn't horrible. Makes Wiley expendable which the apes here should appreciate.



Really opens up the possibilities in the draft and remainder of free agency.

If we land Tent Williams I am growing more comfortable with a veteran signing at wide receiver AJ Green. Cant have high priced players at every position. Understand AJ Green has been injured but if he's able to stay healthy could be a homerun for cheap.

Question......if we sign Trent Williams and when we get to #31....Tevin Jenkins is the BPA.

Do you put Jenkins at RT and move Niang to RG?

Williams - Thuney - ??? - Niang - Jenkins

They're trading up so i think that situation isn't in play. He'll go big for Dline.

I hope they don't go trading up in the first round. This is a deep draft. It would be better to trade up in the 2nd.

What if Terrace Marshall or Bateman is there though??

Depends how far. If Jaelan Phillips or Rashod Bateman is there in the 20's I'm mighty tempted to go get one.

You only trade up into a perceived higher tier of player.

I mostly agree with that, but every draft is unique.

If someone we really covet falls to the early 20s that Veach thought would be gone in the top 10 and he wants to move up for him, I’d trust his informed decision making.

I’m taking either one of those guys in that situation.

Phillips isn't a higher tier of player. His concussion history is a big red flag. I wouldn't trade up for him at all.

If a top 10 guy falls to the early 20's, there's an issue.

That being said, I'm not opposed to trading up 8-10 spots. I'm not trading up farther than that for anybody.

Bill paying Corey Davis money for Nelson Agholor is comical LMAO

His talent is. It's on Chiefs medical if they think they can get 5 years.

I look to create knockout blows.

Healthy Jaelan, Frank Clark, and Chris Jones is deadly.

Hell yes and then you can go back to drafting some late round fatties here and there.

So was Dee Ford's.

Knockout blows are great and all but a wild swing that misses gets you knocked the **** out.

If we get Trent Williams....then I’m all in on Bateman or Marshall in the first.

Dee Ford was a one trick pony. That's why we moved on.

Dee Ford was broken, we should have never drafted him in the first place.

I'm not trading up for Phillips under any circumstances.

Yes, you said that.

I want Bateman so bad. Exactly what we need and have been lacking at X.

The guys in the draft forum know how much I love Bateman and Marshall. Either would be an awesome option at 31 should the Chiefs handle LT in FA or via trade.

Will Bateman be there at 31 though? Have a feeling he's gunna go in the early 20s. I'd be good with trading up for him if needed.

All in for Bateman

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Yup.

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The Patriots pick 15th.

That's out of reach for the Chiefs.

The Pats?... Nah. They really need to get a QB and Mac Jones is made for Bill.

Can they take Jones at 15 though? Bill is probably eyeing a trade down knowing him.

Throwing my hat in on Bateman as well. 6'2 220 and runs a 4.3, great hands, blocks well. He's Sammy v2 and I have no problem trading one of our seconds to move up to get him.



I also like Terrace Marshall though, just not as much.

We only have 1 second round pick.

oh dammit haha in my mind I was already counting on Bieniemy getting hired

If he got hired, we would have gotten a 3rd, giving us two of those. ;)

Time to log off and put some distance between me and these failures

He has to know Cam Newton is getting him nowhere fast, and thus the 1-year deal again.

He had the pleasure of drafting low at the position from day 1 when he had Bledsoe. He lucked into Brady being an all-time great, then was able to continue to draft low at the position for 20 years. He doesn't have time to waste nor a QB of Bledsoe's caliber, much less Brady's caliber, starting for him.

He knows he can win with smart and accurate and Jones is both. I don't think he bets the farm on Jones being there later and I really don't think he settles for Kyle Trask or David Mills.

It's entirely possible he doesn't draft any of them, but it's just another year closer to retirement with no chance at anything.

Don't give up so easily. :D

So Mac Jones is the next Daniel Jones basically. Of course, then D. Jones developed the fumbling issue.

LMAO

damn, you really did him like that.

I see them as similar. Of course, Jones went 6th overall to a team with a QB with a year left so its a similar situation with the exception this class is stronger.

Albeit, I don't know that Fields is all that much better than Haskins from a talent perspective but at least he seems to have a better work ethic. The jury will be out on Lance and how quickly he adapts. I don't know if I'd take either over Jones, to be honest, but I think the NFL will draft on traits and they both have more upside than Jones.

Patriots would be dumb not to draft Mac Jones if they think he will be an extremely accurate QB with a strong arm that is close enough to Brady in the other areas including the ability to make quick decisions and get the ball out fast.

Only thing worse than letting Brady go 2-3 years early is not drafting a good replacement when you get the chance.

But this is why it is so difficult to pick QB's. Measuring accuracy for NFL QB's is difficult and it becomes even more difficult when you are judging how a player may perform in windy areas like New England/NY/Chicago. Mac Jones appears to be throwing it to studs or at least they looked like absolute studs playing behind Alabama's offensive line.

But one couldn't ask a college QB to be much more accurate than Jones was this year. I mean he completed over 77% of his passes with 45 touchdowns and just 4 interceptions.

Even accounting for better circumstances, Jones actually looked more accurate than the kid from Clemson who is clearly much faster/taller/stronger arm.

Bill Belichick has enough of an ego and confidence in his coaching/GM ability that he believes he can win a Super Bowl with Cam Newton next year even with the full recognition that Newton won't be a top 10 QB.

The key here is the Patriots salary cap situation heading into this season was very good so the team has already been able to patch up several of its holes. Offensive line is weaker right now than last year but team overall should be better. It is hard to consistently seriously compete for championships in the modern NFL with average starting QB which is probably the best Cam can do at this point but it becomes a more manageable to task when that quarterback is not paid much and he allows you to load up on other positions.

This being said, Belichick is smart enough to know that relying upon Cam and especially relying upon Cam to play for peanuts is not a long term solution.

Let's assume with improved weapons and a year in the system Newton has a good to very good regular season and a great post season leading Patriots to AFC Championship game where they lose a close game to the Chiefs/Bills/whoever.

Even without making the Super Bowl, that high profile playoff game gets some desperate team to offer Cam 2 years 60 million with 40 million guaranteed. Why not? What does a team have to lose if Cam doesn't work out that first year?

Now if Cam really struggles even with better skilled position players around him, you need a replacement heading into 2022 season or fans will get more upset. So for sure Belichick will be interested in getting a young QB but I am not sure if he is going to love any of the quarterbacks enough to trade up for. A lot of speculation that Gilmore could be traded and could use those proceeds to help pay for the cost of trading up.

Wondering if we may go in for another free agent for the OL like someone like Kelvin Beachum who is cheap, has the experience and is a swing tackle.

This would allow a tackle to be picked in the first round and not have to slot in straight away.

You could have Niang and a draft pick along with Remmers and Beachum which would allow the rookies time to settle.

I've been thinking about it, with a rock solid guard a guy like Reiff wouldnt be a terrible stop gap. Hes far from Williams but i could live with it.

I'm sure Veach has several contingency plans.

Clearly, Thuney AND Williams was plan A, and if you can afford it, yeah, that's a hell of a plan A.

Thats a monster plan A lol. If someone would have told us it was a possibility 48 hours ago we probably would have said yeah ok sure.

If the reports are true, then I think it's 50/50 right now that it happens.

It appears that it's San Fran and KC in a bidding war.

San Fran has like 40 free agents it has to sign; I can't imagine they could outbid KC.

But we'll see.

Reiff might be plan B. Or trading for Dillard, that might be in the mix. Or Villanueva, although I think he's got less in the tank left and would probably be more of a one year stop-gap meaning we'd draft a LT high to be his replacement.

But we'll see.

I would not have thought it possible, but the fact that we're in negotiations with Williams all day WHILE signing Thuney says that was exactly the plan.

After years of jack shit and new england cast offs im pretty thrilled just to have this conversation. The last 24 hours has had me thinking about Carls offseasons and fat Scotts time here. Even if it crashes and burns as a plan A its so much more of an actual plan that we were used to.

ha, yeah, I was literally thinking about that today too. Could you imagine Carl being this aggressive?

LOL.

However it turns out, you've got to love Veach for having big brass balls. Better to swing and miss than pussyfoot around a problem.

Generals who are great at Defense live in caves.

Generals who are great at offense rule on mountain tops

seeing lots of rumors about Alex Mack to SF to reunite with Shanahan. How nice would it be to swipe Williams from them and then get Mack to play along the line?

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As we keep adding pieces to the O-Line, does it become more enticing to join that squad and just be part of something crazy elite? In a post signing Silverback world, if you had to pick between adding Golladay or Mack, what would you do? Is there any doubt Veach could do both? Plus add Von Miller and PP too?

Von Miller is staying in Denver, they exercised his option

No thanks on Mack. Draft a C or roll with Allegretti.

#Chiefs agree to terms with RB Darrel Williams on a one-year deal worth up to $2.13 million with $930,000 in guarantees, according to a source.

The LSU product returns to help bolster the Chiefs' backfield

Still mad at him for the TD drop on that unreal Mahomes throw.

But I'm good with bringing him back as RB3...

Either way it’s a bitch getting to the grocery store.