2023 Cap Discussion

[Dante84]

If we were to absolutely max out all restructures, we would have almost $119M in cap space according to Over The Cap.

Effective Cap Space: $8,449,166

Simple Restructure: $67,070,657
Possible Cap Space: $75,519,823

Maximum Restructure: $110,459,052
Possible Cap Space: $118,908,218

According to @Jason_OTC, the #Chiefs could have $118,908,218 in cap space in 2023, with maximum restructures.

That would be the fourth-most cap space if every team maximized their restructures. #InVeachWeTrust pic.twitter.com/0ezsiCNhFc

— Jacob Milham (@JMilTheHam) November 3, 2022

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Fix tackle situation. Sign best edge rusher available to pair with Jones. Profit.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

Fix tackle situation. Sign best edge rusher available to pair with Jones. Profit.

I think you can only fix the tackle situation by drafting it.

Contracts are coming for Tre and Creed. We're already paying Thuney and can't get out of it for a couple more years, and the team probably wants to pay Orlando Brown a ton.

You can't pay all five positions, while also paying Mahomes, and field a competitive team everywhere else. That's what Darian Kinnard was an attempt at, but Kinnard's probably an interior lineman.

The great news is that we have 11 draft picks, and we have cap space to do anything we want going forward, but ultimately the bill comes due.

They're going to have to fix RT in the draft or keep riding maybe-guys like Lucas Niang.

[DJ's left nut]

I feel like if 'damn the torpedoes' was the approach they intended to take, we wouldn't have traded Hill.

The franchise has, wisely, taken a measured approach in balancing the now w/ the future.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I feel like if 'damn the toraudioes' was the approach they intended to take, we wouldn't have traded Hill.

The franchise has, wisely, taken a measured approach in balancing the now w/ the future.

[Urc Burry]

I wish it was a better FA class. But if nothing else it will help us retain everybody we want to.

The bills on the other hand are sitting at 3.6m over the cap next year, and only 40m projected in 2024

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Urc Burry

I wish it was a better FA class. But if nothing else it will help us retain everybody we want to.

The bills on the other hand are sitting at 3.6m over the cap next year, and only 40m projected in 2024

The Bills and Chargers can get creative, but the bill is coming due.

At best, they may be able to do what we did this season and keep treading water.

Unless they crush their drafts, they simply can't improve much. They're going to take steps back.

The Chiefs are not only the best team heading into the offseason, but they have the most resources of the great teams to do anything they want.

It's a fantastic position to be in.

[Sassy Squatch]

Legit mind****ed me for a bit what he was trying to say.

[Dante84]

Some of my favorite things on here is when there's a wild typo, to google search it, and out of the entire world wide web, have it only be on Chiefsplanet and its a lexicon reference.

[BigRedChief]

Seems like a lot until you look at our list of contracts coming up in the next 2-3 years besides Jones and Brown

All together these guys are costing us like $9 million or less in cap space this season.

Sneed
Williams
Watson
Johnson
Creed
Bolton
Smith
Gay
Moore
Toney
Pacheco

It will be like this until Mahomes retires. We think we have money but we have too many good players like JuJu that we will have to let walk after their 1 year deals are up.

In Veach we trust....

[Sassy Squatch]

Honestly rather just stay pat for another year as far as major restructures go, no pun intended, and maximize our flexibility in the future. Most teams pushed all their chips in this season in a mad dash to catch up to us, and it's pretty clear by now that we're STILL at the top of the AFC with an off season where even most here expected we'd take a step backward in the short term for a chance to leap forward in the future.

[RunKC]

Pay Juju his money
Pay Chris Jones his money
Figure out wtf to do with LT situation

Pay for a pass rusher

Profit

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Pay Juju his money
Pay Chris Jones his money
Figure out wtf to do with LT situation

Pay for a pass rusher

Profit

you just committed the Chiefs to at least $200 million and you still need to pay guys like Creed, Bolton, Sneed, Trey etc

We can’t just keep putting off the bill on every player. Mahomes will still be here way past these contracts. We have to live within our means.

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

you just committed the Chiefs to at least $200 million and you still need to pay guys like Creed, Bolton, Sneed, Trey etc

We can’t just keep putting off the bill on every player. Mahomes will still be here way past these contracts. We have to live within our means.

You don't have to pay Creed and Smith in '23. You'll probably need to extend them in '24.

You have to extend and pay Sneed, and we should. The rest of the secondary other than Reid are all rookies, so we won't have to choose to pay anyone for three more years. It's brilliant, really.

Clark gone saves $20m, which pays most of Jones' new deal.

We're in really good shape.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by Chris Meck

You don't have to pay Creed and Smith in '23. You'll probably need to extend them in '24.

You have to extend and pay Sneed, and we should. The rest of the secondary other than Reid are all rookies, so we won't have to choose to pay anyone for three more years. It's brilliant, really.

Clark gone saves $20m, which pays most of Jones' new deal.

We're in really good shape.

Solid point here. Because you’ve got that all rookie CB class, that allows you to pay one max CB contract right now (starting next year). Sneed is worth every bit of it. You absolutely extend him and pay him. He’s such a versatile chess piece in Spags defense. Kind of like what HB used to be before he started making ‘business decisions’.