How to play this off-season with free agency?

[Walt White]

I don't know the cap space that well so people smarter will have to tell me what we can do. I'm just excited to see how good this team can get. All the building blocks are in place. It's a matter of how we can supplement the pieces. And I know retain the big pieces is most important.

So assuming we can keep Chris Jones and give Pat an extension, will we have any room at all in the cap to make impact additions? Keeping Sammy looks unlikely. Not sure how many of our corners we can keep?

Even if we play it perfect, will there be any cap left to add some vet free agents? It seems like a pretty strong offensive line class in free agency if we could add one or two. Or if we could add an LB (although Hitchens make a lot). Or a vet corner? Trade possibilities?

I'm just trying to get a realistic grid of what potential moves we can make. I know hitting on picks in the draft will be the biggest way to improve. But if we can get some discounted vets or something, that could go a long way into having freedom in drafting more luxury picks.

[Mecca]

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— Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) February 7, 2020

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Mecca

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— Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) February 7, 2020

For Jones to stay here....he’s going to have to give us a discount.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Mecca

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— Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) February 7, 2020

I’d trade him for a first and a mid-late round pick OR an upper half first round pick.

I hope we don’t give into some bullshit where we get a 1st and a 5th for Jones and a 4th or something like that.

We have all the leverage here. We don’t have to trade him. We don’t have to extend him.

[The Franchise]

Trade Watkins.
Cut Reiter and Erving.
Colquitt retires or gets cut.
Restructure Clark.
Extend Pennel, Robinson, Sherman and Ogbah.
Hopefully extend Jones. Otherwise tag and trade.
Extend Mahomes.

[Redbled]

Getting back most of our IR guys will in itself improve us. To me keeping Fuller and Breeland is more critical than Jones at least from a cost perspective. If both Ogbah and Okafor come back healthy we have some really good line depth. We can’t pay Jones 20 mill per year.

[VAGOMO 4 LIFE!]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

For Jones to stay here....he’s going to have to give us a discount.

He literally told rich Eisen that he would. Why listen to these “insiders” anyways. Veach literally does stuff before anyone knows it. The Jalen Ramsey stuff everyone said we were interested and we clearly weren’t. Mathieu was gonna go to another team it was reported until Veach pulled his big dick magic and got him here. Chiefs run a tight ship. Expect the unexpected

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Redbled

Getting back most of our IR guys will in itself improve us. To me keeping Fuller and Breeland is more critical than Jones at least from a cost perspective. If both Ogbah and Okafor come back healthy we have some really good line depth. We can’t pay Jones 20 mill per year.

Breeland is not coming back, a dude that signs a 1 year 3 mill deal is looking to get paid. He lost that contract with Carolina a couple years ago, he's looking to get paid period.

The reality of this situation is...Watkins, Jones, Fuller, Breeland, LDT and honestly Colquitt and Sorenson may all be gone now, unless they are willing to take less money or redo deals because well we have some issues.

[kcclone]

Originally Posted by DRM08

Who are you putting in Fisher's spot? All of their losses this season happened with him on the sideline with injury. Undefeated with him in the lineup.

Ha, exactly. People act like LT's grow on trees. We saw the product when Fisher was out and it wasn't pretty.

Is he the best LT in the game?.... No. But he's definitely top half. Our bigger need on the OL is not the tackle spot, it's improving the interior.

Fortunately, that can be done more cheaply, or in the draft.

[wachashi]

Originally Posted by Mecca

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— Kent Swanson (@kent_swanson) February 7, 2020

The Seahawks have cap space, a late first round pick, and they're an NFC contender that needs pass rush help. Plus there's already a Tag/Trade relationship between the two organizations in last year's Clark deal.

Hopefully Jones wants to stay in KC enough that he'll take a team friendly deal that KC can afford. It's much easier to think that's a possibility as a fan when it's not my bank account missing out on the money.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

Trade Watkins.
Cut Reiter and Erving.
Colquitt retires or gets cut.
Restructure Clark.
Extend Pennel, Robinson, Sherman and Ogbah.
Hopefully extend Jones. Otherwise tag and trade.
Extend Mahomes.

You just cut the teams only backup OT and their starting C who makes like 2 million dollars, I just don't see them doing that.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by kcclone

Ha, exactly. People act like LT's grow on trees. We saw the product when Fisher was out and it wasn't pretty.

Is he the best LT in the game?.... No. But he's definitely top half. Our bigger need on the OL is not the tackle spot, it's improving the interior.

Fortunately, that can be done more cheaply, or in the draft.

We could always draft Hakeem Adeniji from Kansas late to be the back up swing tackle. He’s a good athlete with good size and extremely durable. Maybe he can start someday. We could definitely use better tackle depth though...we saw that this year.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by Mecca

You just cut the teams only backup OT and their starting C who makes like 2 million dollars, I just don't see them doing that.

Reiter would be a great back up center. I would draft his replacement though.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

Reiter would be a great back up center. I would draft his replacement though.

While I think that sounds great in theory, this team is likely going to go into the offseason/draft needing 2 CB's a OLB that plays and a WR, so it's not going to be easy to fill all these spots and do it cheaply.

[Mecca]

Something else to remember, George Kittle is getting ready to get paid...that is going to cause Kelce who is coming to the end of his deal to basically ask for a new contract...

[jd1020]

Don't care. Finally have the QB. Everything else will sort itself out.