Thuney To Chiefs

[NYCPATS4LIFE]

Didn't they dump like 2 or 3 guys off the OL alone?

Yes but they where still over the cap. Mahomes restructure gave them money.

 

[patfanken]

I can’t wait to see the numbers. I thought the chiefs had cap issues? Mahomey restructured to open up cap space.

They can do a lot of manipulation in order to keep the cap low in the first two years, but the bill DOES come due, as the Chiefs found out this off season when they had to cut 3/5th of their OL. The Chiefs WILL be an obvious contender for another superbowl trip, but they will be VERY vulnerable if they run into injury issues at a key time. Depth will still be an issue as we saw in the superbowl this year as well as going forward.

I believe they will be one the "milk it until the wheels come off" program. Try and win over the next 2 or 3 years then tear it down and start over again, which is not a horrible strategy when you are set at QB for the long term.

 

[moosekill]

Past Pats o-linemen who left haven't always been great pickups for their new teams.

 

[NYCPATS4LIFE]

They can open up $40m of cap space pretty easily. The Thuney deal is probably also back loaded from a cap perspective

Still have a hole at left tackle. Likely might draft a LT.

 

[mgteich]

I can’t wait to see the numbers. I thought the chiefs had cap issues? Mahomey restructured to open up cap space.

$16M AAV over 5 years. It might be a great deal or not. What if Year 5 is for $30M? Now, its $12.5M AAV over 4 years?

 

[203Pat]

We kept him last year, he played, we had a rookie who stepped up and we traded for another lineman and we let him go this year. Not really sure how we bungled that situation. Doing this stuff for comp picks is foolish.

We paid a guard in a rebuilding year $14 million and let him walk the next year for nothing. If we let him walk last year we still don't make the playoffs, still have a crappy QB but we get a comp pick this year and could have rolled over that $14 mill to this season. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would turn down a 3rd round pick and $14 mill in cap space for one year with a guard.

 

[jah]

Hate to see him go to that ******** team, but happy to see him make that money. We would have been idiots to pay him that much to play center.

 

[Ivan]

Love Thuney but $80 million is ridiculous.

 

[AlexB]

Love Thuney but $80 million is ridiculous.

It makes a lot of sense for the Chiefs. They need to completely re-build their OL and are still in a Super Bowl window.

 

[Ivan]

It makes a lot of sense for the Chiefs. They need to completely re-build their OL and are still in a Super Bowl window.

I don’t disagree that they need Ol help but they just released both tackles and signed guard for 80 million.

 

[Rob0729]

Weird. They let both their starting tackles go and then pay a guard (granted one of the best guards in the league) to a record setting contract. I figured they would spend their limited cap space on a tackle.

 

[RobertWeathers]

$48m in guarantees...Sheesh.

ChiefsPlanet is happy but they also are concerned about how much money it is but if it prevents another Mahomes massacre in the SB they are ok with it.

 

[moosekill]

We paid a guard in a rebuilding year $14 million and let him walk the next year for nothing. If we let him walk last year we still don't make the playoffs, still have a crappy QB but we get a comp pick this year and could have rolled over that $14 mill to this season. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would turn down a 3rd round pick and $14 mill in cap space for one year with a guard.

Perhaps we should have let the entire team not play last year and then rolled all our free cap money forward.

 

[Hyped]

This hurts....but 15M AAV after we already backed up the Brinks truck for Mason....

And I think he's playing tackle in KC

 

[manxman2601]

Final sentence...

 

[luuked]

$48m in guarantees...Sheesh.

ChiefsPlanet is happy but they also are concerned about how much money it is but if it prevents another Mahomes massacre in the SB they are ok with it.

So its a 3 year 48M deal. Still big money.. happy for Thuney he deserves it..

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

80 million. Wow. Good for you Joe.

 

[slash83]

How do the Chiefs pay top dollar for so many different positions.

 

[50-yard-line]

Perhaps we should have let the entire team not play last year and then rolled all our free cap money forward.

The Pats were apparently in on Thuney to the end, so I'd say that their plan was keep him, keep him, keep him...but it didn't work out.

 

[Guts]

Yeah I seriously do not understand the cap at all...how can they afford this?