Benching Wanya is this years version of benching Toney.

Hard to watch. Sure hope the leg for Humphries is strong enough to let him perform at a solid level.

What's crazy is, that dude did that single move over and over and over and Wanya couldn't stop it one time. He didn't even try another move. He didn't need to.

Said this before… I’d never put this expectation on mahomes, but given how competitive he is i wonder if he would ever taking a 1-year paycut if it meant fixing the LT and WR position once and for all. I’m always surprised more players don’t do this. If humphries plays well wouldn’t it be nice to lock him up long term?

It would mean doing a disservice to all other players in the league who are trying to make a living and maximize their compensation. There's not leveraging your stature minute by minute to be the highest paid player in the league (which he's done) and then there's restructing your contract to take a paycut that that isn't remotely warranted.

It would impact what other QBs are paid and that would trickle down to what other positions get as well. There's no way he wants to be viewed in that light.

I look around the league and see other big money QB's with great OL's and weapons. Jared Goff just got $80M this year and has a completely stacked roster around him. That includes an elite RT on a massive contract, elite receiver on a massive contract, really good LT on a big money contract, etc. Joe Burrow has gotten $110M the last couple years and has Orlando Brown plus WR's Chase/Higgins. Somehow the Eagles have big money players all over their roster (including OL/WR) while paying big money to Jalen Hurts. Lamar Jackson got $80M last year and has Ronnie Stanley on a big money deal at Left Tackle. Josh Allen has had Dion Dawkins for 6+ years, including a big money deal for Dawkins at the moment. On and on it goes. Mahomes already provided the team with a pretty big discount from 2020 to 2022. He could have gone the Burrow route (huge cash flow immediately).

They can restructure $$$ if they want to keep this group going one more year.


They can also just use draft capital to move up but this year's draft doesn't have a bunch of blue chip LT's. Maybe if they see a guy they really like who can be functional they move up some.

Nah, I know people want to say that, but right now QBs are overpaid and if you pay them less that money goes to someone else. Teams aren’t going to just sit on cap if they have space.

It’s not an opinion I have a ton of conviction about. But if affording a player who can keep him healthy and upright is a matter of a few extra million we don’t want to pay, in the grand scheme of his whole contract I don’t think it has nearly that kind of ripple effect.

His critics said he was selfish for taking such a massive cap contract and then roasted him for taking less. So he doesn’t win either way.

Other teams are more assertive about spending money because they’d rather their best possible 3 year window than trying to spread over 5 years. A luxury we haven’t needed because we’re not desperate as other teams who don’t want to waste their window. We always have that ace in the hole since we’ve been really conservative about our long term cap.

Dude, you're saying he should take a paycut versus his current contract. The only people who do that are those who are going to be cut and acccept a restructure to maintain some semblance of a guarantee that they feel would be better than they could get on the open market if released.

He's already taking an implicit paycut by not demanding to be the highest paid at his position by a longshot. He's doing his part to maintain the team around him. He's not going to out and out restructure to get even less.

This team is entering dangerous territory fellas. Kelce is about to retire. Chris is starting to get up in age to the point where you wonder when he’ll start the decline.

They need to hit at key positions like Tackle and pass rusher badly.

They need another draft like 2022 and I think that’s exactly why Veach was fine trading Sneed for an early 3rd

We're going to hit a slump at some point, probably next year after the threepeat

None of the all time teams have been able to keep up this torrid pace we're on... hate to be that guy, but we can't win them all

Lets just get the triple, everything after that with Pat is gravy

They win this one I don't mind doing another mini reset.

Or maybe they try one more time with Kelce next year.

Either way, that is how it goes.

****ing THIS EXACTLY. Why does he get a pass? What has he done in his tenure?

Im not saying he should. And specifically said it’s not likely and no one can blame him. But the option is there if he wants to. By all indications he accepted a bigger contract not because he wanted to, but because he was bullied into taking more money because douches like Florio had the audacity to call this selfish for some weird reason

. If he doesn’t care about the few extra $s then the only reason he’s taking more money is because he’s forced to, then **** everyone else. If mahomes believes taking less will get more weapons around him and that’s what he wants, then let him. Upsetting the Lamars and burrows of the world is such a ridiculous reason for mahomes not to want to do what’s best for him. You now have guys like burrow and Lamar and Herbert setting the market. You don’t need mahomes to carry that weight anymore