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Originally Posted by DRM08
I don't agree. Kaepernick was exposed on the field as a guy who struggled to read defenses. Harbaugh did a great job hiding that for Kaep in the first couple years. If Kaepernick performed like Mahomes, he never would have been blackballed in the league. Easy to blackball a dude when he's performing like a backup QB, and even got benched for poor performance before the blackball stuff happened.
Mahomes signed a ridiculously team-friendly deal back in 2020 with only $140M guaranteed for 12 years. This season his agent asked the Chiefs to update the cash flow and guaranteed money, so they did. He's getting $210M fully guaranteed over 4 years (2023 to 2026). They are gonna re-work the contract again in 2026-2027.
Chiefs could have told Mahomes to go screw himself, and they didn't. I feel very confident if he ever made it to the open market, the entire league would be falling over themselves to hand him a fully guaranteed contract. If they did it with Deshaun Watson, they would absolutely do it with Mahomes.
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Have you seem the backlash the owners gave Haslem for that contract. Kaep was blackballed because he was messing with the owners bottom line. IDC who you are ignoring one is above the shield. If Mahomes was a FA and demanded a fully guaranteed deal than he would be playing baseball. There will not be another fully guaranteed long term contract for a very long time. The owners aren't going to willingly give up their power. They've fought long and hard to garner and keep that power and they aren't about to give it up. If they give Mahomes a fully guaranteed deal Then everyone coming behind him would demand one. The were hell bent on making Watson the outlier and not the norm. Demaurice Smith was on the Pivot podcast talking about this give it a listen and it would be really clear what happened.