There are those of us that think you just hold onto him instead of taking peanuts.

Dude....why would you have ever thought that?

After the Chris Jones saga, they probably didn't wanna mess with him not showing up for camp and such drama that comes with being tagged.

Webcrawler? ROFL and Chris Jones

Good and bad at the same time. :) I'll take the wear and tare tho. Not many tears recently compared to my last 50 years tho. :p

you forgot to equate the $19.6 million...

What do you guys not understand about this? It’s not financially responsible, especially after they caved and gave Chris Jones a **** ton of money.

They had to choose who they were paying and it wasn’t Sneed

Moving CJ out to DE was a bad move for sure. I wonder if CJ had been lobbying for it and midway through the season both CJ and Spags realized it was a big mistake.

The silver lining is that it led to CJ being able to freelance and pick anywhere on the line to rush from, which HAS worked out in the long run.

Puff, Cash bonus could have been used. I mean that would be like change in our pockets to Clark.

Sneed gave Tyreek a very difficult time in 2 games last year. That’s pretty special stuff considering how difficult it is to slow down Tyreek.

and which 10 players do you let go to keep the 1?

Yeah, you might want to be careful about making the Chiefs better, but we see that the Titans traded with the Chiefs, so if you're another team that could have used Sneed, how do you justify not trading for him when he could have been had fairly cheaply. If the Titans were going to do it anyway, what difference would have made if you had done the deal with slightly better compensation for the Chiefs?

What? Clark and the Chiefs max out the cap, and actually push off cap each and every year. Clark can't just pay extra to keep Sneed. The Chiefs made the decision that pushing off more cap and keeping Sneed wasn't worth it with the impending contracts of Creed, Bolton, McDuffie and others. Those of you who think this isn't a real thing are delusional.

Exactly. Not sure why people don’t understand this.

They gave Chris Jones a ton of money from 2025-2027. Mahomes has a big contract. Jawaan Taylor has a big contract. Clark isn’t gonna be writing all these checks for restructures when he’s already gonna have to do it for Mahomes and Chris Jones already.

The cap health is needed to try to and keep as many young stars as possible. They’re gonna pay Bolton and Creed. They’re gonna turn around and pay McDufffie and Karlaftis big money shortly after that.

I'm not sold on Karlaftis getting a big payday. If he takes a mid-range to low end contract we'll probably keep him. He's not a top 15 DE though so it's not like he's impossible to replace...

Yeah that huge sack against the Bengals in the AFC championship game least year was from DE

He is not shit and he's above average. 10.5 sacks is not nothing. You just don't get a guy from the draft to do that. He won't break the bank but he's better than you think. Same sack number in 23 as Nick Bosa, Chubb and Jones.

Now that they have room, KC would be smart to move some of Jones' money around so it hits the cap this year.

Karlaftis is a 100 million dollar guy. He's a double digit sack DE.

Are we talking about across his entire career, or in a single contract. What other DEs are earning that? Genuine question. I mean, I don't think he's worth that or will get paid anywhere near that.

He will absolutely get 100 million unless he falls off a cliff. If he keeps improving like he has, you’re probably looking at even more.

Only if he signs at least a 5 year deal. He's not getting 25 million per.

This is what I mean. I guess there will be wage inflation as the cap rises...but that's a lot of money.

10.5 sacks isn't worth 100M.

If it is, then hopefully it's with another team.

10.5 as a 2nd year 22 year old. He’s gonna get better. I’d bet he’s a 15+ sack guy this or next year. That’s worth $100 million

The Bosa brothers say hi.

As the salary cap skyrockets each year, I think we will be surprised by the amount of money guys are paid even if they aren't obvious superstars. We have seen that trend with NBA & MLB as well. Dudes we have never heard of are making insane money in those leagues.

Montez Sweat just got 100 million dollars. Karlaftis is already on a better track than he was.

So...yeah. Chiefs fans need to prepare for Karlaftis to get atleast that.

Karlaftis has every bit as much of a track record as Brian Burns does. Go look at what he just got paid.

Karlaftis has a pretty long way to go yet to be the player Sweat is. If he gets $100m good luck to him, I'd assume he'd become an elite player.

And we don't even need to trade for him...jk

Not gonna lie that I wobbled heavily on Spags at times.

Andy had moments that made me crazy but NEVER wanted to move away from him. The only game that made me question him was the Colts 45-44 playoff comeback. That game shook a lot of us.

Dude.

By the time George gets to the point of an extension, he will be closer to a 150m player than a 100m player. The cap will be well over 300m by then.

He’s extremely raw still and is already a really good player that has shown to be extremely coachable and seeks to improve.

Veach isn’t gonna go all in and not play fir the future. An injury can derail anything. We’re in a window while we have Mahomes. Why sacrifice the future, when we need to maximize the time we have Mahomes/Andy together. We won with the majority of these players last year. We’re better at receiver already. We need OL as we have no legit LT. No update on when Thuney is available. Fill the roster out with that money, and let the best coach/quarterback/defensive coordinator/TE in the league do what they do best!

Reerun KC still sticks to his guns on that. It’s unbelievable. 3 ****ing rings later. :shake:

Theres a bunch of people who feel the chance at a 3-peat is too alluring not to go all in for.

I agree to an extent. I dont think an all-in is necessary for a 3-peat. We're still a very young team. Let those guys develop, patch the holes in the offense, and I think we have a great shot at it.

Just saw where Sneed passed his physical (reported by Paul Kuharsky). FWIW.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Highest Average Paid CBs<br><br>1. Jaire Alexander, $21M<br>2. Denzel Ward, $20.1M<br>3. Marshon Lattimore, $19.52M<br>4. Marlon Humphrey, $19.5M<br>5. Trevon Diggs, $19.4M<br>6. L&#39;Jarius Sneed, $19.1M</p>&mdash;<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Top CB Guarantees<br><br>1. Denzel Ward, $71.25M<br>2. Marlon Humphrey, $67.3M<br>3. Marshon Lattimore, $58M<br>4. L&#39;Jarius Sneed, $55M<br>5. Jaylon Johnson, $51.4M</p>&mdash; Spotrac (@spotrac) <a href="https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1772645384084398136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Spotrac (@spotrac) <a href="https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1772645383052636222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Top CB Guarantees<br><br>1. Denzel Ward, $71.25M<br>2. Marlon Humphrey, $67.3M<br>3. Marshon Lattimore, $58M<br>4. L&#39;Jarius Sneed, $55M<br>5. Jaylon Johnson, $51.4M</p>&mdash; Spotrac (@spotrac) <a href="https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1772645384084398136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I thought he had a bad knee:hmmm:

It's called "cope" and it's what scorned people do to justify when things don't go their way.


Oh, he's not that good because he grabs too much. He has too many illegal contact / holding / DPI penalties. He has a bum knee. etc.

Yeah, I agree with you there. I guess the CB market has lost trade value then. Sneed is a better player than Marcus Peters but we got a second for him.

It's disappointing any way you slice. Veach said they were happy to keep him but this is a cap dump move.

He does have a bad knee, but teams overlook things all the time.

You have to define what “all in” means.

It doesn’t plundering your team into salary cap hell. That’s full reerun, see Chargers, Saints, ect

He does.

A team physical is just confirming what they know is an issue for the player and to make sure nothing is unknown. They already knew about the knee and concussion issues.

Nobody that has been in the league 4-5 years has a physical with no issues, it’s risk management for team prior to signing the deal.

Contract details are available:

2024 cap hit is only $9.96M
2025 cap hit is $24M

TN has an out in 2026, where they can pay Sneed a $21M cap hit or cut and have $12M dead money.