Kansas Crimson

holidaysmore wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:04 am
I’m fully convinced that Reid is making all of the personnel decisions but Veach should also take a lot of the blame for his repeated misses on draft picks and FA signings. Creed and Bolton look good but everyone else has been strike out after strike out.

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:05 am I think we gotta go 5-0 to have any kind of chance at being home for our first playoff game.
@ WAS ( must )
@ TEN ( not as good as we thought but holy hell Henry will eat us alive )
v NY ( duh )
v GB ( will be really tough but GB's defense not scary )
@ LV ( yup )

Then it's Dallas in KC.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:11 am CEH was a huge miss for sure.

I think in the macro, what you're seeing happen is how effective the NFL is at pushing teams to the middle. First place schedules are no joke. It's really hard to get impact guys picking in the 30s. And, while the stars-and-scrubs approach to roster-building is probably the right one, you're completely fucked if three of your top five cap hits - ~20% of the cap! - are some combination of unavailable and ineffective.

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:32 am Want to know the scary part?
Mahomes structured his contract so it was only a 7 mill hit this season.
Its increasing to closer to 30 next.

holidaysmore wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:38 am You wanna hope that this team will use this as motivation to push through. No reason why a roster this talented can't still make a run. Now, if they don't the reasons why are right in front of you.

Whiffed on multiple years of draft classes.
Over paid on multiple FAs.

If they look like they did last night against WFT Spags has to be gone. They need to make a change because there is zero excuse why a defense can regress this badly this quickly. At the very least you bench Hitch (I know that is a huge cap amount sitting) and Dirty Dan. Both of those guys are becoming a huge issue. Hitch, is slow and Dirty Dan might be even slower. Even worse for him he can't tackle anymore. You almost feel bad this staff continually puts this guy in spots like they do.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:39 am

holidaysmore wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:38 am You wanna hope that this team will use this as motivation to push through. No reason why a roster this talented can't still make a run. Now, if they don't the reasons why are right in front of you.

Whiffed on multiple years of draft classes.
Over paid on multiple FAs.

If they look like they did last night against WFT Spags has to be gone. They need to make a change because there is zero excuse why a defense can regress this badly this quickly. At the very least you bench Hitch (I know that is a huge cap amount sitting) and Dirty Dan. Both of those guys are becoming a huge issue. Hitch, is slow and Dirty Dan might be even slower. Even worse for him he can't tackle anymore. You almost feel bad this staff continually puts this guy in spots like they do.

The joke's an easy one, but my god, what pictures does Sorensen have? And of who? Doing what?

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:38 am

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:32 am Want to know the scary part?
Mahomes structured his contract so it was only a 7 mill hit this season.
Its increasing to closer to 30 next.

That doesn't concern me much. The cap should be going way up again after a year of Covid stagnation. And Mahomes is exactly the sort of guy you can justify.

What you can't have is Frank Clark taking up >13% of your cap to suck. But he will be gone, as will Hitchens.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:50 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:38 am

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:32 am Want to know the scary part?
Mahomes structured his contract so it was only a 7 mill hit this season.
Its increasing to closer to 30 next.

That doesn't concern me much. The cap should be going way up again after a year of Covid stagnation. And Mahomes is exactly the sort of guy you can justify.

What you can't have is Frank Clark taking up >13% of your cap to suck. But he will be gone, as will Hitchens.

The contracts given out this last offseason make it clear that the owners fully expect the cap to skyrocket with the new TV deal. Mahomes's contract is fine. In fact, it will probably be increased.

Seems, though, that the cap issues could take the Chiefs out for this season. Mellinger was quite doom and gloom this morning. Wonder if there are locker room issues. It would make sense because they aren't this bad.