I understand that.

As I said in an earlier, I am not concerned with the lack of activity early in this process.

I am only pointing out the stupidity of these posts.

No? How does Schwartz close the gap on Ware, Talib, and Ward?

Christ, you guys.

A team that consistently drafts well cannot pay all of its stars the market wage on their 2nd contract. There exists a salary cap. A good GM will identify the key talent and let the rest walk.

Thread over. :clap:

How dare they pass on signing an injury-prone 30 year old OT to a nearly $50 mil deal who is only above average at his position?

Or how dare they pass on a "run stuffing" 5-tech who offers no pass rushing ability for $25 mil?

How dare they pass on a special teams pipsqueak who isn't very fast for his size and offers little in the passing game when a draft that's remarkably deep at WR is coming up?

How could they think of passing on signing an OG who was a career journeyman and an average starter at best for premium dollars?

Yeahhhhhhh, about that.

Daniel... key talent.

Schwartz keeps the cohesiveness of the line together while allowing you to spend your draft picks on other more necessary holes. You may not be gaining ground but you're definitely not losing ground.

So Chiefs should just concede the season and go belly up because the big bad Broncos got better?
Schwartz was actually a solid player for us last year.

And guess what? Bennett just got a new deal because of how he performed. Funny that teams do that after 1 year prove it deals.

I'd rather play Schwartz, a guy with experience that knows the system then having to go through another season of basically a ****ing inexperienced unknown rookie starting. We saw how that went with Eric Fisher at tackle, and we picked him first overall. Could you imagine if we threw out a 23rd overall pick, 3rd round pick, 4th, undrafted? some slap ass that was on our practice squad last year? It's basically like playing an unknown player with no experience and it's no guarantee he will be stable at the position. Add ontop of the fact our most tenured olineman will be Jeff ****ing Allen. That's what's considered a "Veteran" for us. Jeff Allen. Let that sink in. (they will probably end up signing some old fart like Daryn Colledge but as of right now, all things being equal)

And apparently, they plan on playing a lot of inexperienced players as starters next season unless they sign some veterans to plug these holes.

The point is that so far this offseason, we've went against the "Build through the draft" model by letting many of our own high draft picks walk away by not offering them a contract past their rookie one, in addition to mostly ignoring the free agent market thus far.

Huh? The point is you can't be the highest bidder in the league on a bunch of guys every year, regardless of whether you drafted them or not.

People are mad at losing Schwart but he is an average starter at best, that was his ceiling. No way that we were going to over pay him like the Giants did. It's not like he proved himself to be a top or even above average guard in the league; he was just better than what we currently had and people are treating him like the next coming of Larry Allen. Schwartz was a good run blocker but a poor pass protector; he was not worth what the Giants paid for him but good for him that he was able to get his pay day.

The only reason why he looked good, compared to our other interior guys, was because he was the most experienced.

Overpay him? Show me his contract details....otherwise you're just speculating.

That's why you get guys locked up before the very last minute.