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Originally Posted by staylor26
I understand why they did what they did. They were in the middle of a SB run and it would’ve been a ridiculous distraction that would’ve led to them dragging Tyreek’s name through the mud as well and the Chiefs would’ve been labeled a team of woman beaters.
It was a lose/lose situation for us and the epitome of “because Chiefs”.
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We're, what, $6 million in cap space to runningbacks that we wouldn't have been but/for releasing Hunt? And we still have a chunk of Hunts deal in dead money.
After accounting for all that and the fact that we'd have had SOMEBODY here as a cheap backup, it was at least a $4 million cap hit when accounting for replacement costs.
To avoid a 'distraction' in an information cycle with the attention span of a housecat?
He undeniably put the chiefs in a tough spot, but they handled it in the worst way possible, IMO.