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Originally Posted by htismaqe
If they think Taylor is a LT, they're going to play him at LT.
They signed Smith for roughly $4M. The $9M will never be met. He's a backup with a chance to compete.
If you think the "plan" right now is to pencil in Smith as a starter, you're just plain wrong.
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As I said a couple days ago, given the cap space available to us, about $5 million of that needed to be NLTBE incentives.
And he started 13 games last year so they can't be games started or snaps incentives (because every incentive up to 13 starts would be LTBE and thus would count immediately on this year's cap). They have to be 'performance based' and for an OL, that can really only be post-season accolates, right?
So he probably has a Pro Bowl escalator and almost definitely has escalators for both the AFCCG and SB (appearances and wins). And even THOSE are likely tied to snap share.
This world where he makes $9 million without establishing himself as a quality player just doesn't exist. Either he'll show to be back to his 2021 form and earns a starting job, then the Chiefs are very successful and he gets paid. Or he isn't very good, we didn't need him as anything more than LT insurance/backup, and he makes veteran backup money.
It's just...duh.