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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Agreed on mahomes. If we don’t need to restructure we shouldn’t. I’d rather 10 years of great teams. We did such a good job on cap that we can still be aggressive without touching that contract. If we need extra money then you can load any of our signings with a big signing bonus.
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Agreed. Restructuring Mahomes, especially more than a small amount, should be a last resort. If the cap exceeds $220 million and they roll over close to $4 or $5 million, cut Frank Clark, extend Chris Jones to get his cap hit down (I hope they don't wait until May or later to do this and instead get it done before free agency), and are able to either move on from Orlando Brown Jr or sign a long-term deal (so they don't have his franchise tag amount on the cap), they should have quite a bit of cap space without restructuring Mahomes much if at all. They could also restructure Joe Thuney a small amount to open up more space if they need it, as well as Kelce. They could also cut MVS if they want to extend Hardman or sign another WR aside from Juju. Every player they sign from free agency and every player they extend other than Chris Jones (or Orlando) probably won't have that much of a cap hit in 2023. Ideally, they're able to get done what they want to get done without restructuring Mahomes. It might be difficult to do that, but every year they don't touch that contract makes the following years even easier with the rising cap (which makes it easier to continue to not touch the Mahomes contract, especially while there's still dead money remaining from the previous restructure). Moving on from Orlando Brown, if he's not earning the contract he demands, would make such a plan easier to implement.