Oh I don’t like that OL situation, but that’s what I expect to happen.

If somehow the situation is better than that AND we upgrade at WR and DE, then Veach is a literal miracle worker.

They just remember the last 2 Super Bowls. The OL cost us this SB and almost cost us last years.

They aren’t taking into account the moves made to fix the OL from year before last.

Osemele
LDT
fisher
Niang
Schwartz.

Cant prepare for that volume of losses to a unit that depends on cohesiveness to thrive.

I kinda expect Veach to target the GB center in FA. Reiter was good in pass pro, but wasn’t even average at run blocking...going from Reiter to the GB center would vastly upgrade the OL. Plus, centers don’t make what tackles do so signing the best center in football would go a long way towards balancing the offense and letting CEH shine.

I’m not sure what Veach could have done more than what he did.

Going into this season our line was Fisher - ? - Reiter - LDT - Schwartz
He drafted Niang who probably would have had a crack at starting at LG, and he signed Remmers to be the swing tackle.

Then Niang and LDT opted out. So he signed Osemele and assumed that Wylie could fill in at RG because he’s done it before.

Then Osemele got hurt, so he plugged in Allegretti because what the **** else was out there?

Then Schwartz went down. So Remmers started.

Then Fisher went down. There was no shuffling that was going to fix it at that point. You just hope they don’t do what they did in the biggest game of the year. Unfortunately they did.

Reiter was the only constant on the o-line, and even he wasn't really a constant. They benched him when we played the Bills because his run-blocking effort was lacking. It was nothing short of a catastrophic season on the offensive line...AND WE STILL MADE THE SUPERBOWL. We'll be fine.

Ah so that’s why Veach isn’t concerned about being $15 million in the red

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The easiest and biggest savings is moving Pat&#39;s roster bonus to signing bonus. That is 17 mil alome</p>&mdash; ChiefBearcat (@Chief_Bearcat) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chief_Bearcat/status/1360420246616686592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Packers actually did this today with their LT.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Packers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Packers</a> recently created about $8.3M in cap space by converting LT David Bakhtiari’s more than $11M roster bonus into a signing bonus and spreading it out over the length of the contract. He’ll make the same as before, but it gives GB some room to operate.</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1360724685584027650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Great post. Really paints a very clear picture.

Listen it's been an amazing three year run.
Veach will have to work some cap magic, and there a few things he can do to clear a little, but I'll surprised if we sign big name, big money free agents.

I fully expect him to have a solid plan with contingencies at the offensive line spots in '21. He's a smart guy, he watched the same game we did.

And I fully expect to be right back in contention.

I want a boring fatty draft. A LB or WR in FA. A TE2 in the draft would be ok in place of a fatty.

Vulnerable against good QBs?

Well, at least we'll still be able to piss pound the Bills and Ravens...

If Patrick can have his roster bonus turned into a signing bonus for $17 million then we’ll be fine with the cap.

Schwartz retirement gives us $6 million.
An extension to Matheui will give at least $8 million.
Extending Fisher would give us money too.

I think we’ll make it work

You’ve gotta balance things. With Mahomes and andy you need to be pushing for a championship every year but can’t over leverage.

Pass rushers are always needed. Look at Tampa. Get a few vets that still have juice and throw them in the mix with young guys you draft.

Mahomes is due that size roster bonus pretty much every year. Might be worth moving to signing bonus this year just because of their cap situation. But shouldn't make it a habit. In a few years he will be due 45-50 mil every single year. Adding a few mill to those cap charges is not ideal. I'd like to explore our other options first.

Fisher is going into the last year of his deal. The only option to lower his cap hit is to extend him because we can’t cut him while rehabbing an injury that happened during football activities.

Restructuring deals is only possible when there are multiple years left on a players contract.

I think the point is that we have multiple players that we could do that with. Mahomes, Jones, Kelce