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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Is calling me old repeatedly supposed to hurt my feelings, or something?
You're repeatedly wrong. I'm occasionally wrong, and freely admit when I am.
But I'm right more than not.
Veach's job is to build a championship caliber team. He's done that, every year, and in different ways every year.
One thing he's not done is sign an over 30 player to a top of the market deal.
I guess they extended Thuney. That's a long way from Jones money.
We'll see.
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The reason KC was able to get away with paying Jones well was because they drafted well. This team is augmented by these players all on rookie contracts:
Sneed
Jaylen Watson
McDuffie
Cook
Joshua Williams
Karlaftis
Danna (I believe)
Gay
Bolton
Chenel
Trey Smith
Pacheco
Rice
Toney
These guys are going to want to get paid when the time comes and the simple reality is that paying Jones $30+ million a year in his early 30s when history shows a significant drop off around that age is not wise as doing so costs some of the above players, especially with Mahomes’ top of the market contract.
Sure in Madden you can turn off the cap and it all works out, but not in real life. Is Jones getting $27 million or so right now? Yup. KC was able to do it because of all the above rookie contracts. I would love to keep Jones in KC for his whole career, but he has to be realistic and if not let him walk and someone else can pay him. No player on the team (outside of Mahomes) is bigger than the team. That’s not dinosaur thinking, that’s just reality.