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Originally Posted by ForeverIowan
People on this board talk out of both sides of their mouth. They claim they want to draft and develop but then turn the other cheek and want to consider trading this dude. Pay your homegrown players who have given their blood sweat and tears to this franchise. Tyreek is 28 years old and in flawless shape. He has shown ZERO signs pf slowing down. Pay the man his damn $.
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It's damn rare that a skill position player on his 2nd contract works out.
If we do nothing at all, Tyreek Hill will have made $60 million from this organization before his 29th birthday. We've already paid our homegrown player.
The question is whether we want to pay him again. And if there's any possibility you're paying him for what he's done rather than what he'll do, the answer is no.
It's not as simple as you're making it. The Chiefs have set Hill up for life - any 'moral dilemma' has since been resolved. He's a wealthy man and Clark Hunt signed every last one of those checks.
So now the question becomes if you think you'll get commensurate value for the checks he wants you to write him going forward. If that answer is no, then you don't continue to write them. Especially if part of that calculus is what you lose in terms of picks and cap capital by paying him instead of trading him.
Nobody's talking out of both sides of their mouth here. Nobody in this organization has been done wrong by the Chiefs.
But hard decisions oftentimes must be made.