Possible Chiefs\Saints trade

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Cocina_Basement

What are his character concerns? I really don't know. The guy hasn't played an entire season yet, so either he's going to come here and excel and can expect a reasonable payout- which we're going to have to pay any tackle we have a good sum if he's going to perform like we are expecting. We could also trade for the guy and redo his contract with an extension in the hopes of getting him for a few more years at a cheaper price.

Besides, we have plenty of cap space right now. We're in no danger of cap space. We only have 51 players on the roster right now and alot of our guys will be playing under rookie contract for the next few years, so you could presumably sign the guy to an extentsion, and spread his salary more evenly instead of backloading the later years. This is commonly done, and teams usually have to put roster bonuses or up the signing bonus so the player will agree to backload the contract. What you would basically do is get him secured longer, lessen his signing bonus and not put yourself behind the 8 ball with a rediculous salary jump / roster bonus and be able to pay him a bit more on a yearly basis while we do have a lot more room under the cap. If he does pan out and has a backloaded contract / roster bonus- he would probably be right up against the same time we'll be having to resign a lot of our draft guys that are coming off their rookie contracts and be looking for much larger contracts. That would be a very silly thing to try to put yourself in a situation of having to decide who you can afford when you could have structured it beforehand to avoid that situation.

There was a domestic abuse charge leveled at him before 2007, but it was dropped. Then his production sagged in 2007. Character sirens should be going off in your head.

I like the guy a lot, but he's not worth it by himself. We shouldn't be paying anybody big this offseason.