How does winning SB change your opinion on...

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Originally Posted by Direckshun

OBJ: The team is going to have to pay OBJ, I'm afraid. It may be market re-setting, but I trust Veach to keep it flexible.

Credit to him. He bet on himself, and stayed healthy all year. He had a ton of difficulties, but eventually clamped down on them. He was nails in the Super Bowl, and part of the reason the Chiefs were able to run so effectively. At one point, Pacheco gained about 9 yards up the gut when Brown laid all 360 lbs of his weight into the DE and neighboring DT and washed them out almost single handedly. Pay him.

JuJu: This is going to be a very, very difficult call. I was increasingly convinced that the Chiefs wouldn't need him -- he only had 3 receptions in the AFC games, but then went off for 7 in the Super Bowl.

I would like to know what he's asking for. If he needs anything more than $12m/year, the Chiefs can replace his production. The power of this offense now is that it's flexible. It's Kelce + whatever WR the Chiefs need that week. It was Toney vs. the Jags, MVS vs. the Bengals, JuJu vs. the Eagles. Skyy is ascending, Watson is still a reliable option, and the Chiefs can return the entire TE corps if they want to. They have 11 draft picks. They've got options if JuJu is too much.

Thornhill: Welcome the compensatory pick you're going to get for him. He's priced himself out of Kansas City.

Another guy I'm very proud of. After struggling returning from injury, Spags remade the safety corps this year after letting Matthieu/Sorensen walk by making all three safeties interchangeable cogs. Thornhill was really, really good in coverage. He was solid in the slot. He's not built for playing in the box but he made a key tackle against the run in the Super Bowl. He's going to get paid, he deserves every penny. A fantastic rookie contract for Thornhill and he's going to make some dough somewhere else.

MVS: The Chiefs need to find a deep threat this offseason to learn the ropes, but MVS can stay for another year. If you exclude Mahomes, you could argue that MVS (and Chris Jones) deserve the MVP of the AFCCG.

Hardman: Mecole has done yeoman's work over the course of his entire rookie contract. He's not a full route tree guy but the value he brings with his horizontal speed and his work in Wasp is fantastic.

He was absolutely pricing himself out of Kansas City, but if the Chiefs offer him a 1 year contract for $5m, he'd probably take it. He'll do Hardman things for a year, and next offseason someone will pay him $30m over 3 years. Offer him the "let's get you some money" contract that JuJu signed, and I bet he takes it.

McKinnon: This guy provides so much balance and is such a perfect fit with Pacheco. I've said in other threads that the Chiefs should go get Samaje Perine, who is three years younger and gives them the power running that McKinnon can't provide.

But you know what McKinnon was wearing the last quarter of the season? The captain's badge.

This locker room loves him, the offense uses him perfectly. He's cheap. He belongs in Kansas City.

Clark: I'm at peace with whatever the Chiefs do here. But they cannot bring him back at his current cap number.

If they repeat what they did last year, and adjust his contract, I completely support that decision. The Chiefs should draft DE in the 1st, and have him learn for a year under Clark. If they cut Clark to just have maximum cap space with having to pay Jones and Brown (and Sneed), I'm with it. Both moves make perfect sense to me. I trust the front office.

Wylie: Wylie has now played in three Super Bowls, starting two at right tackle. He's gotten consistently better every single year, and peaked out by playing out of his mind against the Bengals and Eagles to help the team win it all.

We don't have the money for him. We're going to pay Brown, we're paying Thuney, and in a year we're going to pay Humphrey and Smith. We can't pay all five guys. And Wylie's going to get paid.

This guy has been a killer teammate and fantastic addition for the nastiness of the OL over the years. He's played three different positions, at various degrees of capability. He's a great dude, a hard worker, and has multiple rings. He is the saving grace of that 2018 draft class (even though we technically didn't draft him). Thank you, Andrew. I put respect on your name.

Saunders: Saunders can sit on the market while we hunt for better run pluggers, if a team wants to pay him, so be it.

If not, we can bring him back for a one-year deal like we did with Nnadi. Saunders is a rare athlete and worked his ass off this year to earn the snaps he did. He's also a fantastic dude, but he's got a leg out the door anyway based on his tweets from this year. Let the dude get paid if he can, if not he can come back and play 40% of our snaps for one last ride.

Agree with all of this and hope Wylie does get paid.

The moment with Wylie and Mahomes in the lock room was awesome.