Sneed shut down ELITE guys this year. Deebo and/or Aiyuk are going to have long days Sunday. He's earned every cent he's going to make, either from us or someone else. And if it's not us, I hope it's someone in the NFC (same goes for Jones if he's the one not here next year).

Yes. Voidable year the year McDuffie gets paid.

You keep those two for the next three seasons together, with Cook and Connor both coming on... Sheesh. Gives you the flexibility to back fill Jones leaving over a year or two imo.

I think Vrett Bleach is just saying that. I could be wrong, but I thought he mentioned Jones being an offseason priority last year, too.

We can only use the tag on one guy, and I don't see us being able to let the other test the market and manage to come out on top in the bidding. And if we use the tag, that sucks up a huge chunk of available play money to address other offseason needs.

It's just a little excessive, in my opinion. We can maybe afford one, but definitely not both. And I think it's more important to continue keeping this team young and energetic. The more you run it back, the harder it can be to pivot away from that strategy when your core players get too old.

All of this. And its considerably cheaper to tag Sneed, hes younger and has had a better season imo.

Potentially, but I really don't think it's a coincidence that we started seeing some damn fine defense when we booted guys like Hitchens and Niemann out the door and replaced all of their snaps with Bolton and Gay. Chenal, too.

Everybody pisses on the idea of spending resources on great LBs until you've stocked your cupboard with absolute crap at the position. Then all of a sudden your defense becomes mediocre at best.

If we let both Bolton and Gay walk, I really hope Veach keeps spending those 2nd/3rd round picks on LBs to replace them.

in my Chiefs madden franchise I was able to keep everybody! But couldn't sign any free agents until 2026

Even CJ95 knows who we should pay.

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I can't disagree with any of this. It is a great problem to have and I am glad it is not my job to sort out.

CJ will hit the open market and Veach is hoping the market isn’t as strong as Chris hopes it is

It’s not completely out of the question we still keep him in KC, if the market isn’t where he wants it to be.

The tough part for Chris is all the top end DTs got paid last year and he decided to wait. That’s going to make it very difficult to set a price for. Chris is the definition of a unicorn up to this point. But his age will play into negotiations.

Watch Veach get CJ back for something like 4/100 with half guaranteed with an initial cap hit of 9-10m in 2024 and gets Sneed signed to a 4 year deal at an AAV of the franchise tag plus a bump for cap increase. Call it 5/100 but really a 3/50 deal that mostly guaranteed.

Then let Veach do what he does in the draft and let’s go for the 3 peat.

If we can keep Tranquill and DS on top of keeping Sneed and Jones, Veach is a miracle worker and this team is going to be extremely tough to beat.

If all goes well Sunday Jones will have 3 rings. It’s hard for me to imagine him not taking the big payday after his legacy is already like that. Even with 2 rings

Chris Jones is probably going to Houston unfortunately. They've got the most money to blow and I think Demeco is gonna target him hard on the open market.

I prefer NFC, but I would be OK with Houston instead of Baltimore, Cincy, Buffalo, or the other AFC West teams.

The only way the Chiefs will be able to bring them both back and afford to fill out the rest of the roster is to push pretty well all of Mahomes roster bonus forward. I have my doubts.

They are 100% converting Mahomes bonus this year. Maybe not all of it, but some of it.

I'd be shocked if they let Tranquill walk too. He's not going to cost a lot regardless. Age and the pay scale for the position working against him.

Danna, Gay and Edwards are all likely gone.

I think CJ may take the deal to stay with the Chiefs if they win Sunday. Getting 3 plus rings would likely put him in the HOF. Jones knows the grass isn't greener because of money if he's close with Tyreek.