Chiefs are 63m under the cap

[BossChief]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Your optimism will fade. Come March, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

You are letting decades of sub par roster management sway your thoughts on the present situation IMO.

Let me get your (and some others) line of thinking in my head for a second...

You think that we are front loading all of our contract extensions to ensure that the team keeps lots of cap space available because we are gonna continue to operate well below the cap.

Well,that doesn't fit the current (and future) league rules (that Clark Hunt helped negotiate)

If we don't spend 119 million in CASH, we forfeit the remaining amount to the NFL and it is dispersed between the players. that has nothing to do with the teams cap space, it how much the owner MUST spend to be in line with league rules.

Either spend the money on players or the league takes the money anyway and you get nothing.

I guess I don't see a way that we don't go out and add a few pieces and retain our own guys without violating the leagues rules and having to hand over the cash anyway.

Gilberry
Belcher
Carr
Bowe

I expect all of them to be re-signed and in addition for us to sign 2 or 3 quality guys.

In reality, thats what its gonna take for us to get to the league mandated amounts, regardless of the cap floor that goes into place next year.

If we don't start to spend money THIS YEAR, there is NO WAY we get to those figures NEXT YEAR without having to sign players to stupid contracts.