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I'm looking at the cap implications of doing the things you have here and it doesn't look good. The Chiefs are tight against the cap and can't move much real estate. If you look at annual growth and things stay on par with what they've been, the cap should be between 201 and 203 million. If you trade Watkins and the other scrubs and make your cuts and throw in cutting Cam Erving for good measure, you're still only looking at $27 to $30 million in money. Re-signing Jones likely eats up at least $16 of that on a $21 per deal. If you re-sign Mahomes early, then you're looking at half that contract being fully guaranteed and at least 60% of that guaranteed money being a signing bonus. That puts him at an extra $10.5 m against the cap. You've already eaten up every cent of the cap.
The sad reality is that the terrible Clark deal could cost us Jones, which is stupid. At best, you have to wait to re-sign Mahomes until 2021 and you aren't doing much in terms of free-agent splashes because the Chiefs have a bunch of guys exiting, so you'd see a ton of low-cost deals. I'm not sure what the rollover will be with the movement of contracts this year, but you're kind of banking on that to do anything at all.
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