Let’s talk about the Salary Cap, and teams uses of it

[chiefzilla1501]

I’d say two things can be true at the same time. On the one hand the chiefs have been very conservative on using their credit card. So when people say we can’t afford this or that… yes we can. We have plenty of flexibility. We just want to build a long window versus crashing and burning in year 5.

Deshaun Watson is a very very good example of how that comes to bite you. They created Frankenstein contract. In hindsight it was a bad deal. A huge overpay. But the reason the contract is truly awful is because they kept restructuring it. In order to free up more money today they kept pushing guaranteed money to the back. It’s almost comical that the guy is now a $72m cap hit. And $170m to cut. Yikes.

That being said I do feel like we should use our purse a little more. Mahomes is entering the end of his peak and who knows how much longer Reid has. I wonder if the sobering reality of an aging kelce is going to change how we approach this new era.