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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
And your alternative strategy is… what?
Tap into the non-existent free agent market?
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The alternate strategy is to add some FAs who make sense who are improvements over the non-Rice guys they had last year. Even if the price seems high (whisper: It actually isn't).
There are still plenty of players in FA who do just that.
It's not as simple as saying "prices are bad on FA, just use the draft and land instant impact guys!"
If you do a good job, you can do that on ONE guy. You have to be pretty lucky, picking where the Chiefs are, to get TWO guys at the position. Unless you burn all your capital to do it, and they can't afford to do that.
It's all about making it work under the cap. The front office knows what its needs are, it knows what resources it has to try and meet those needs, and it knows the hierarchy of them.
People on here who are freaking out and saying they should not be making ANY FA moves seem to think that salaries NOW shouldn't be any higher than salaries LAST YEAR or even a few years ago.
There still is one high-priced (or expected to be high-priced) player who would help the Chiefs a lot - and for the folks complaining that something like 3/48 or 4/64 would be WAYYYYYYYY too much for Brown, I'll point you to the fact that 3/48 was Sammy Watkins' deal six years ago, when the cap was $177.2M, 44 percent LESS than what it is in 2024.
If the Chiefs were paying Brown with the exact same dollar portion of the salary cap as they paid Watkins back then, they'd be giving him 3/$69M in 2024 dollars. The equivalent of paying him 2024 dollars of 3/48 or 4/64 would be like 3/33 or 4/44 in 2018.
Inflation has hit the NFL too, ya'll. Every tier of receiver is going to cost more.
I'd rather dip in and try to buy a longer-term piece that fits and is an upgrade for his role in the offense NOW than next year, too (after the Chase and Jefferson extensions get done and set a new top of the market).