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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
Hopefully they’re letting his agents negotiate with potential trade partners so he can really see what kind of contract is out there for him. Then they can decide if it’s enough to warrant leaving.
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Originally Posted by Buckweath
Really hoping that Chris Jones is traded. As much as I loved the player on and off the field, it brushes me off the wrong way that he is playing hardball for that massive contract. I am all for paying him a nice 19M, maybe even 20M per season, he deserves it but if he is to play hardball and not accept anything less than 21M-22M I say no thanks.
There is countless examples of teams, including the Chiefs, handing out those massive contracts and coming out on the short end.
I'm a Chiefs fan first and foremost and I know that handing out any massive contract means saying goodbye to other players I would have liked to keep or putting the team in a bad position cap wise down the road.
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Let me ask a real question...
Why should Chris sign a deal for less than Aaron Donald/Khalil Mack got? They signed those deals at age 27.
The only way I see that happening is if Chris and Brett agree to do a 3 year deal for the same overall AAV Clark got so he can hit FA again in his prime. That would be a hometown discount.
The deals for Mack/Donald that we’re signed for all of their prime years in the league...
Mack got 7 total years for 154m total at age 27.
Donald signed for 7 total years and 142m total at age 27.
Those were signed before the 2018 season when the cap was 177m and it’s since risen to 198.2m in 2020. That’s a 12% rise in the cap, so Jones could convincingly argue he is worth 12% more than either of those players.
That’s how agents determine a players calculated market value when hoping to set the market.
If Chris agrees to a deal for all of his prime years, that value should legit fall somewhere between
7 years for a total value of
7 years 159m
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7years 172m