If you're going to pay 3 guys, I think your T really would ideally be 2 of them. If you're going to pay 2 guys, I think your T really would ideally be 2 of them.

I just have a hard time seeing them commit big at C and RG and both Ts.

If they can draft a OT that would buy them a second contract for one of the other guys.

I'm not sure I agree that if we trade Jones we won't win a Super Bowl without him talk. YES if we trade Jones now and role with the current DTs we have a Super Bowl is gonna be very hard. I just think if Veach pulled a Tyreek and traded Jones he would then look for a stop gap or a trade to beef up the DT position more than what we have outside of Jones atm.

I mean hell bring in Suh as a 1 year stop gap. Yes he is about washed but would be better than what we currently have. Or maybe not and he should retire haha

100% agree and thats why Veach getting these starters on rookie deals need to keep happening. If Veach can get us a tackle in next years draft we can role with. Ideally Veach always has a couple of rookie contracts on the OL

It wouldn't cripple the team, we'd just have to be a different team.

There are some decent stop gaps out there right now that I'd argue we should look at because are DT depth is bleh and Warton may start the year on PUP. But odds are we have 1 more season with Jones either way.

If we draft a Tackle, he's cost controlled. at that point, we are committing big at RT (which we already are) and Center (Humphrey). I don't see that extending Smith is entirely out of the picture when Thuney is gone. Don't get me wrong, maybe Humphrey's extension will be massive and there will be no chance to keep Smith, but I think there is a (albeit uncertain) possibility both could be extended. By the time the OT is up for extension, Taylor will be gone and we can extend him. Just trying to see the situation coming before us.

updates?

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thank you.

Sorry fellas. My hopes that if it were successful Jones had simply overslept and would report tomorrow, but no luck.

Neg away.

Since clearly someone in the Chiefs camp leaked this, the Jones camp needs to leak what the Chiefs are offering.

I would assume no higher than $27M.

I don't have a problem with paying him the biggest contract for a defender that's not named Aaron Donald, so TJ Watt is at $28,002,750/yr. If $28.5-$29 mil isn't good enough for him, then I think Veach has to move on.

The Patriots would have already dumped this guy by now and replaced him with two white dudes at WR who are super-clutch and some Polish LB who makes the Pro-Bowl.

Letting Jones walk without the tag next year would be extremely incompetent. Veach is not incompetent.

Anyone have the running fine total

(number of days vets have been at training camp) X ($50,000.00) = Fine Total so far