Don't call tyrann Mathieu the honey badger
 

All hail the landlord

This story is great. Terez knocks is out of the park once again.
https://sports.yahoo.com/how-tyrann-...224432163.html

Awesome article.

Hadn't really heard his reasoning behind the nickname. Definitely seems fitting.

Love the guy.

Honestly though, Reid and Spagnuolo deserve a ton of credit to have the stones to bring in a guy like that, promising that shit up front. Man, if he’d bombed, or clashed in the locker room or any number of things could have made this thing fail spectacularly.

Reid and Spagnuolo definitely deserve credit. Especially when the defense was shitting the bed.

Honey Badger is a landlord by default because they are so tough. Seriously though. If you watch how low and how he gives no ****s. I don't know how a player could be more like an animal nickname

Throw Veach in with that praise, as well.

Veach hasn't batted 1.000 as a GM with us, but he's out there trying to upgrade the roster when he can, and that's a dammed sight better than what came before him (Dorsey tried but he had no concept of a "salary cap").

He hasn't batted 1.000, but he's got to be about as high as any GM in the league in the past 12 months.

Agreed. Mathieu, Clark, the team friendly Tyreek contract, and don't discount the Suggs rental, either.

I'm legit curious with what he does regarding Mahomes' upcoming mammoth contract. And Chris Jones, for that matter.

And the 2019 draft:

Mecole Hardman (probably a starter next year, key contributor this year)
Juan Thornhill (starter this year)
Khalen Saunders (rotational contributor)
Rashad Fenton (rotational contributor with starter upside)
Darwin Thompson (decent change of pace back)
Nick Allegretti (has potential and, if not, he was a 7th rounder)

Saunders is a hell of a pick. Remember when we drafted Glenn Dorsey who was a “cant miss” guy and didn’t do ****all for 3 years because it “takes a long time to learn develop DL”?

This dude rolls right in here and is a critical piece to stopping some really really good rushing attacks this year.

Glenn Dorsey..Reggie white 2.0

“It’s not that they didn’t have leaders here,” Mathieu told Yahoo Sports. “It’s more, I think, that he [general manager Brett Veach] was looking for a certain personality that could really kind of lead other alphas.”




This quote is really telling of the vision Brett Veach has for this team I love it.

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Agreed. Although, with all due respect to Veach, let's not get carried away with the salary cap being better now. Because it's really not. Veach has had the benefit of a quarterback on a rookie contract to give him extra room. But the salary cap is kinda scary moving forward now that Mahomes is about to get paid. Hitchens and Watkins were overpaid. But we had that luxury because of the Mahomes deal. Clark has a huge cap number, as does Mathieu. Jones deserves a huge contract, but I'm not sure how the team can manage to pay it. They have to spend a lot of money this off-season. We have to add or retain 2-3 corners. We have to replace 1-2 wide receivers, at least 2 linebackers. And we have no cap space. It's going to take some creative cap maneuvering to make all of that come together. Sure, Watkins can be cut and restructured. And there are some other moves to be made. Now is when we will see if Veach is better at the cap than Dorsey.