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Originally Posted by jd1020
Not even sure what you are trying to say. That the Chiefs weren't active in FA?
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You asked how does resigning current players relate to free agency... If you are active in FA and sign a bunch of high-profile players you'll have less money to re-sign existing players you want to keep. If you resign existing players to big contracts you have less money to make a big splash in FA. Money all comes from the same bucket.
Chiefs have really done neither this year, they did not resign some of the flashier players (Albert, Mccluster, Schwartz) nor did they make a splash in FA. My guess it's because they have more critical resigning of core players coming up (Smith, Houston, etc) that they need to prepare for and have some cash to spread around.
I'm not an expert on all the contract stuff, that's just what it looks to me like they are doing from 30,000 feet.