Yep, we talked about this months ago. The Chiefs, Bills, and Ravens seem to be moving one direction with WRs. The Bengals are basically doing the opposite. It will either prove to be genius or stupid. There's not much room for it to just be meh.

"Worth got nothing to do with it" - W. Munny probably.

The market dictates the contract. Chase has always been, at the very least, equal to JJ. Jefferson has bigger numbers with lesser QBs but Chase has the triple crown and production in the playoffs.

Well, the Kitties are going to be a fun team to watch this year, there's no doubt about that. But man is it going to hurt for them when they get bounced early in the playoffs.

As a long time Chiefs fan, I know what I speak of with this. I've witnessed it firsthand many, many times.

Yep. People cite the Chiefs with Hill, but how many teams have Mahomes at QB...

If the Oline stays healthy (in whatever iteration it becomes) i have no worries about the offense. An, at least, mid level defense is vitally important to moving on in the playoffs though.

They need to start drafting really well and based upon what their history says they can’t. There drafts recently have not been good

I remember in the Vermeil era when we went 9-0. People were so excited, they thought this was the year, including me. I was one of the fans chanting 9-0 after that game. And we knew we had no defense but we still believed. Guess thats what it is to be a fan.

“deserves got nothing to do with it” is the correct line before Munny blew little Bills head off.. Kind of like when one or more of these guys get hurt after getting a big contract… Seems like that happens a lot..

Burrow is going to be the modern day Dan Marino. Looking forward to his cameo appearance in the remake of Ace Ventura when he's done playing.

Chase is fine. They should have done it much earlier. Tee… I just don’t get. Good get for most teams but not a team with this much money tied up to qb and wr.

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That's a lot of moola for an oft injured WR2.

Tee is THE perfect #2 to Chase's #1, so there's no mystery as to "why" there. Guarantee Burrow at some point demanded they find a way to keep them both.

It's just too big of a resource drain. You have to have a semblance of a little balance these days. If, IF they can retain Hendrickson, they could have a shot. But if not, nah, they're done before they get started. They'll be a 35ppg offense and have a 10-7 record that gets them bounced in the wild card round 45-41.

This is the issue I see as much or more than simply cutting Higgins the check.

Last year proved they haven’t drafted well enough to be a high level playoff team, even with Chase and Higgins.

These contracts double down that they can make up for those draft day wrongs and do it FAST.

They don’t just need a good draft if they want to contend for SB LX — they’re going to need a great one.

And that was true with or without Higgins, but now with this deal done, the target to achieve that goal got a lot smaller.

Whether it was flipping him for a pick or two or simply having $28.5m to put toward 2-3 other starters, you’re just up shits creek if you’re Duke Tobin trying to have the great draft needed to vault back atop the AFC. I don’t see it.

Burrow will get his stats, but this isn’t a team I fear deep in the AFC playoffs next year.

We will see. The best offense we ever saw was the 07 pats and they didn't win the SB even with a top 5 defense. You haven't exactly lit up Arrowhead with these two so whoo knows.

There is only one football so one of them is massively overpaid.