Chiefs expected to release S Ron Parker
 

Terez Paylor: Sources: Chiefs are expected to release Ron Parker in another move to gain salary-cap space:

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**** yes. Thank God.

I don’t know what he was set to make but I’ve always thought you needed guys like Parker one team. Cheap and productive.

Sanity exists.

there goes my idea for next year's adopt a chief

**** man

He's not really cheap and was one of the worst performers on the team last year.

I think they can reasonably replace him.

His cap hit is $7 million.

He was a pretty decent safety at times during his stretch in KC. But yeah, makes sense to part ways with him now.

Not surprising with this youth movement

We could probably package him with say a sixth rounder and get someone's fourth.

Welp, it was a nice run.

Thats addition by subtraction fellas. Enjoyed seeing him get roasted.

There may be like 3 returning starters on the defense next year, LOL>

That's true. I know everyone here wants a 23 year old All-Pro at every position, but that's just not gonna happen. He was a solid veteran safety for several seasons. He covered over the top pretty well for the most part.

For $5M in cap space, seems like an easy move. His play declined this year.

Cap space shouldn’t be an issue.

We would be packaging the 4th with Parker for that 6th.

So Parker made about 13.5 over 3 years to be subpar at both safety and corner.

Dorsey was the kind of guy that would hit on a number in roulette on his first bet then spend the next hour pissing away his winnings.

Dumbass just never knew when to walk away from the table.

Any safety that’s a part of the AIDSfest that occurred during jump balls this year can go away.

They were beyond bad.

For a team that's broke, this seems like some decent cap space to get back for a not super valuable piece.

Tamba Hali cmon down you're the next aging veteran to get cut

So far....

Chris Jones
Reggie Ragland
Justin Houston
Eric Berry

Those are the only guys that I can think of. Hali is next to be gone and Ford's status is up in the air. Bailey might be gone as well....who knows.

Money moves

Step back year for the Chiefs? Seems likely on the surface but then again the defense wasn’t good last year anyways.

Chiefs released FS Ron Parker.

The move saves nearly $5 million in cap room. The Chiefs' defensive makeover continues after last week's Marcus Peters trade and public announcement longtime ILB Derrick Johnson would not return. Parker, who turns 31 before the season, struggled mightily in both run support and pass coverage last season, grading out 86th among 89 qualified safeties in Pro Football Focus' ratings.

We are going to have plenty of money to get whoever we want especially with the cap increasing $8-10 million this year.

Because they are mostly cutting off expensive, shitty players?

You’re next, Sorenson

That is a good list. The defense sucked horribly anyway, it’s not we’ve jettisoned Pro-Bowlers.

Hali should be next.

No way Sorensen should stay at his current number though. ****ing Dorsey man.

It's funny that we've been waiting for Eric Berry to come back so badly and to give us the push we need on our defense to make it further into the playoffs, and he's the only one left in that secondary coming back.

I think they can definitely sign 1 or 2 impact FA for defense. They don't have to be All Pros but good productive starters.

Need a CB (obviously)

And DL help mostly.

Yeah. At 7M.... deuces yo.

If Veach turns this defense around it will be a minor miracle.

Outside of Peters—yes.

I don’t think the defense will be worse statistically. I’d say it’ll be better by a decent bit. But the talking heads aren’t going to see the big picture. It’ll be labeled a rebuild even though really, the building was already in shambles.

Outside of Colquitt who isn’t exactly in the clear.. are we even going to have a single 30 year old on this team? Obviously this is before FA, but I can’t think of a single one

Lots of cap to play with. To bad we have the worst GM in the game running the show. Say what you will about Dorsey's contracts, and mind you some of them were bad. But it's a good thing he was still in charge when we traded with buffalo. If Veach had been running the show our next 5 first rounders and all the gates BBQ locations would now be in the hands of the Bills.

For the 1000th time this offseason......


Colquitt is a FA.

Schwartz is over 30 right?

Fair enough.

I actually think Pugs is right here....theres not a whole lot of room to go down.

Maybe we will get less picks or turnovers but I bet our yards allowed goes DOWN and if anything points per game allowed stay around the same (mid level)

I guess I'm good with this one, but we're going to have to find DB's at some point this offseason with limited cap space with which to do so.

He's not under contract

We really aren't "limited" a ton.

Right now we're at roughly $20 million. Cut Hali and we're at $28 million. Make Sorensen a June 1st cut and we're at almost $32 million.

We can get cap space.

If they cut enough dead weight, they will have some real flexibility between cap space (40'ish range) and draft picks.

****ing Great. Was a good find and filled an important role for 4 years, but he's done.

Peace out, Ron.

I'm down.

Should have around $30M to spend I think as of now, assuming Hali’s release as well as Zombo

Cap space shouldn't be an issue at all. The NFL is projecting an $8-11 million dollar increase this year so we could be looking at $35-40 million in free cap space.

The guy simply couldn't tackle and with no dead money for cutting him this was always on the cards. Now let's put a stud next to Berry and put some decent corners alongside them.

I agree but they are going to need quite a few new players along with our rookies. This is definitely a rebuild year.

The time is now though to do this with a cheap Mahomes contract and we will have plenty of money.

I liked Parker early on. Guys like him are a lot of fun to cheer on because they have to absolutely work their ass off to get anything.

Last year was bad though.

Bring on the youth movement. If you are going to do it, don't do it half-assed.

There's not much further back for the 29th ranked D to go!

This. He noticeably seemed to regress last year. If we're going to re-tool the defense, let's burn it all down. :clap:

The question I have is, how many teams who have built a young defense in the offseason, has managed to make a deep run In the playoffs? Is there a particular team who has done this in recent years?

We need to keep Sorenson. Also dropping Parker gives us space to bring in Manziel.

This

I’ve said it before and I guess I’ll keep saying it.

In a capped sport it’s about efficiency rather than youth or whatever other metric. It’s about production per unit payroll. Parker was a guy that fit that mold. We got a lot of production or of him especially early on and he wasn’t necessarily young.

It’s not good to have the whole damn team be 23-25. Then their contracts all come up at the same time and you’re starting the **** over. A team needs a balance of guys and for them to not get bunched up to have consistent sustainable success.

All that stems from good personnel decisions and avoiding the hard busts both with draft equity and free agent payroll.

But yeah. A full on fire everybody youth movement isn’t as productive as you’d think. Good teams have middle tier free agent acquisitions that are efficient payroll dollars.

Moves like this will allow us to do just that this offseason and next.

A youth movement has its time and place. I'm not sure the year you start your inexperienced top 10 QB is the best. More bad than good if a young guy has to drop back a lot to play catch up.

Well, we'll have Jones ,KPass and Houston up front. we'll have Ragland, Eligewe and probably KPL at LB. We'll have Berry, Fuller and maybe Sorenson in the backfield. So hitting on 3 draft picks on Defense every year is a good way to keep supplied. Stay young and fast. Bring in two DL in FA and we have to draft that damn punter from Texas with our 3rd.

Offense we just need a LG and a QB behind Mahomes and we're good there.

I'm all in for the youth movement, but why are we keeping that fuccboi Bob Sutton around to run it on the field?

I want to see Ron Parker hug his new head coach. I bet his hugs are just chest bumps though...he was never known for wrapping up.

So we can draft higher and get better players for the next regime?

I'm a fan of this move. Also makes me wonder if Sutton is under pressure to run a bigger, tougher defense. Which makes me also wonder if he'll reconsider running Dime.

This team had maybe the worst safety play in the NFL this past season. Jettison all participants not named after a fruit.

Good.

When is Sorensen next?

That list of names is hard to get excited about. Jones and Berry will be coming off injuries, and Elegwe and Kpass barely saw the field last season. Sorenson is no better than a 3rd/4th safety at best.

Veach will need to be strategic, but aggressive in Free Agency if KC plans on not taking a large step back next season. I believe the offense needs more than just a LG and a backup QB. I would add a veteran WR to the list (they were able to get away with a young WR Corp last season with a veteran QB) and a proven #2 TE along with that LG. Defense is in complete overhaul mode.

What's your idea of a major one?

Sorenson is the type player every team needs as solid depth.

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ROFL

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Not a surprise…that contract they gave him was a tad too much

Get the **** out, Tamba.

What is the cap hit if they trade Berry. No reason to keep him around. I doubt he wants to be here now anyways. Surely Veach's dumb ass could get a conditional 7th for him.

What's your idea of a major one?

I'm trying to think of something to say about your Mom. Give me a minute.

Veach taking a sledgehammer to this defense.

We haven't made a "deep run" since 1993. And this group sure wasn't going to do it

Change is good, bring on the new kids!

Good. Now go get Fuller and Norwell in free agency