Ron Parker coming back?
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Ron Parker says in text message he plans to sign with Kansas City. <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor">@TerezPaylor</a></p>&mdash; Stephen Fastenau (@IPBG_Stephen) <a href="https://twitter.com/IPBG_Stephen/status/576790610486636544">March 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I can confirm the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash">#Chiefs</a> will sign Ron Parker. Agent Justin Turner tells me the deal is worth $30 million in total money over five years.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/576794209111400448">March 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Ron Parker’s deal includes $8M guaranteed ($5M SB) and $5M in playing time incentives tied to playoff appearances and interceptions.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/576823368474869761">March 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The deal for Ron Parker with the Chiefs is the largest ever for an un-drafted safety according to <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLAgents_net">@NFLAgents_net</a></p>&mdash; Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora/status/576824647007805440">March 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I can confirm the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash">#Chiefs</a> will sign Ron Parker. Agent Justin Turner tells me the deal is worth $30 million in total money over five years.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/576794209111400448">March 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Clark's wallet is just showing off now.

Need to cut booger.

I like it

Way to buzzkill, Ron F Parker. Goddammit

I'm fine with it if he can play at the level he was last year. But strictly at safety. 6 does seem high though

jesus, how do we have cap space?

big cherry on top of FA

can not wait for the draft

Hopefully not a 6.mil per.

Wow! Nice Dors! Coming back to play safety or pinch corner

Single high safety I guess

5 year deal

Dorsey has won this free agency, for sure.

We'll come to regret this one...

I'm not a huge fan of this signing.

so we're all in this year, right?


no excuses

I've been told DJ, Berry and Alex have all restructured their contracts.

Parker was an instant upgrade over Berry. While Parker isn't a great fit as a FT CB, he is a very solid, smart safety who covers TEs very well.

Yeees. This is really good news.

Apparently the league and the chiefs view him alot better at safety than we do

We have not gone all in. The montain is large but we are getting better but Indy and Buff will be most improved.

Hate, hate, hate, hate this.

Who is this "we" you speak of?

Jesus Christ, that is ****ing horrible.

Just as the overall theme of this thread

I see nothing wrong with keeping our defense intact for this season. They played pretty damn good together.

5 for $30? **** that.

They better hope he improves. Jesus.

He cannot cover. At all. I just cannot believe they re-signed him. Horrible.

Have to wait and see the structure first

That shit better not have a bunch of guaranteed money.

Supply and demand is why he got 30m.

Hopefully Ron Parker bought this Chiefs a nice seafood dinner before he ****ed them so hard.

@nfldraftscout: 5 years, $30 million for Ron Parker is about paying for the future and not the past. I like it.

Seriously:

Grubbs, Mauga, Parker, Paul Fanaika

($70 million total in contracts)

or

Hudson, Akeem Ayers, Nick Fairley, Terrance Knighton, and a fifth round pick

($57 million in contracts)


The trade for Grubbs on its own was a good move. The extension is ill-guided. The Branch signing is a great risk-reward move, and I really like bringing in Maclin. Aside from that, Dorsey has stacked up some outright reckless and/or boneheaded signings.

Ron Parker plays well for a month and gets $30 ****ing million, but Hudson is told to kick rocks with no depth on our interior OL? Fanaika and Mauga are vet minimum players. There is no rationale for giving them $16 million in contracts.

Dorsey apparently has figured out how to work the cap this year. I didn't figure we'd be active in free agency at all, but we're moving stuff all over the place. I've got to give him credit for that, though I'm not sure about this signing in particular.

I will take what Dorsey did.

:banghead:

Those players arent seeing all that money anyway

what do other teams have to do with us going all in?

they've addressed every weakness prior to the draft, laid out quite a bit of money in FA, and now have free reign and 10 picks to address only relative weaknesses at ILB, RT, and WR


based on their spending, it seems to me they think this is the year

He ****ing sucks, not a fan.

Let's wait to see the structure of the contract before we judge. Mauga is really a 1-year deal just like Fanaika.

Then you're a ****ing idiot.

Evidently, Bob Sutton must love the guy.

FYP

grubbs is a 2 year deal, he can easily be cut in 2017

mauga is a backloaded deal, he got 2 mill guaranteed
fainaka is basically the same

none of these contracts will cause us any long term problems...i bet Parkers 'real' money looks nothing like 30 mill

Structure, people.

Structure, structure, structure, structure. Calm down before your flip your shit because the structure will determine absolutely everything about this deal.

In the end I think we'll probably be a little annoyed by the deal, but not $6 mil/per annoyed.

He's a guy that credibly plays single-high safety and there just aren't a lot of those to be found. A TON of our success on deep balls last year came from his ability to really blanket deep. Additionally, with a healthy Branch, Abdullah could play nickle safety like he did a couple years back and you suddenly have a pretty nice coverage package and credible run defense with Branch/Abdullah being well above average for SS and NCB respectively and Parker being merely average in run defense for a FS.

This gives Sutton a TON of looks he can employ. Parker's a very nice fit for what we would try to do.

Wait until the structure trickles out before you lose your shit. If we end up paying him $12 million over the first 3, it's a solid deal, $15 million and it's a mild overpay but nothing brutal. Beyond that and I think we got hosed. Hosed or not hosed though, he's a good fit here.

Can't see how this isn't overpaying.

2 of those players are on 1 year deals, of course the total money is lower. Jfc, we resigned some players that are decent to manageable deals. Grubbs cap hit is less after the extension for ****s sake.

Mauga is really a 1-year deal just like Fanaika each 2.5m. Terrance Knighton got 4m for 1 year. 5th means nothing with all the comp picks the Chiefs will get.

as we don't know the details yet, how can you see anything?

It's probably more like a 2 year, $11 million dollar deal and not a 5 year, $30 million dollars deal.

Relax, people.

Obviously.

Everyone knows that NFL contract are iron-clad.

We should totally flip our shit over AAV...because that definitely means a lot.

See what you wanna see

My phone corrected aren't to are, which as I can see now completely changes the forecast of said post

Cannot cover. Don't care if he paid Chiefs to play.

We don't need Fairley or Knighton so who cares. Dorsey is doing is doing pretty well of making this team better so far.

My question is who restructured their deal because we had dick for cap room.

Pleased to hear this... didnt care for his asking price, but still didnt wanna lose him, its entirely possible his ceiling hasnt been reached yet.

A good young player to keep around, greasy fast for a safety.

Ask any Titans fan about Ayers and they'll tell you he sucks.

He got lucky with half a season in New England and cashed out.

And $9 million for a center is the definition of stupidity.

I'm thinking they worked something out with Berry.

This says they don't plan on Berry coming back

did we really just give this guy $6M a year?! Good Lord. Well, can't win 'em all, I guess LMAO

I bet this is backloaded and he won't see that money..

In terms of ayers, like many players, it's more about scheme and fit.

If parker fits here like they think, overpaying a bit isn't a big deal

Nah, he's just not a militantly ignorant goddamn whiner.

You have no idea, none whatsoever, how this contract is structured and you're still sitting here bleeding out.

Then again, you're just going to bitch regardless so I guess there's no harm in staking your position before you're aware of the substance.

You've gone full ****ing Clay. Bitching about $70 million in contracts to guys you know will see maybe 1/2 of that is just wailing for the sake of wailing.

I'm fine with this. He's a solid player at single high. Terrible corner, but solid safety.

There was a huge market for Parker and McCourtey this year because single high safeties are hard to find and this safety draft class is bad.

Glad parker is back though. Good safety that can help out at corner is valuable.

5/6 million for 2 years is still too much!!

I sure as hell hope so but there will a number of guys who can do what Parker did for us in the 2nd-5th round of the draft for a fraction of that price.

What is the deal with Dorsey paying a bunch of money to Jags?

pay the impact guys, draft the jags for cheap

:doh!:

You are greatly overrating Parker's coverage ability as a single high safety. He did not "blanket" deep. That is extremely hyperbolic. Most of our secondary's success came from the constant terror inflicted on QBs by the front seven.

There were several players at in-demand positions out there who were younger with longer track records of success who got less money than this.

Thanks, DJ well said.

did anyone really want us to give hudson 9mill a year?

overpaying is always a big deal

They probably don't give him 5 years if they didn't chip in a fairly substantial signing bonus that they're looking to spread. If that's the case, they probably won't be eager to accelerate it into year 2.

I'd imagine we're looking at what will amount to a 3-year deal.

He got 2/6 from the Rams.

Parker played well here for half a season and will likely see 2-3 times that in guaranteed money.

Do you not see the irony in your argument?

the salary cap is a myth ... every year you just leverage towards the next year or the next two years ... rinse, wash, repeat

Clark is spending a lot of up front money and people are still mad. Go figure.

if you get production, it's not

I pray to god he's never put in a situation that requires he play corner.

Hamas is usually the one to point out things like this. I think he's just looking to bitch at Dorsey. Like Ayers would ever sign for 2 yr/6 million here. Please.

If he plays like he did in 2014 (as safety and back-up CB) then I disagree. There's very little evidence that he will though.

Still think it is a good move if the deal doesn't kill us after the second year (saying this having not read the entire thread).

Our secondary is set now for 2015 though. Need to extend Sean Smith or draft his replacement.

"CLARK YOU CHEAP BASTARD!!!"

1 week later

"OMG QUIT SPENDING ALL OUR ****ING MONEY!!!"