...and the cap will go up again....and we will restructure to make room, and we'll back load the guys we do sign. In other words....we'll be fine

It sounds great to keep him, but I think you want to keep McDuffie and Creed even more, especially considering we know his knees are suspect. It's tough to pay 2 corners big money, if it's between Sneed and McDuffie, I choose McDuffie.

Exactly. This is exactly what Veach is trying to do. He's planning ahead. If McDuffie wasn't really good then Sneed would be extended already.

But what has Rickey said about it now?

I like the way Veach played this one, it shows Sneed how much people other teams are willing to pay him, and that he might not be worth what he thinks he is. It also gives us an out and some picks if someone wants to over pay.

Basically teams went eh we aren't giving up a 2 to give a guy 20 mill a year.

If he was thought of that way the Lions would have given us #29 before free agency even started.

On top of that be honest with ourselves. It's easier to win this year if Sneed is on the team. We only lose if we deal Sneed on the cheap.

Also. Sneed loves being a Chief. He doesn't want to be Tyreek but this is his one big contract. He can't take a discount.

Yea I don't think he wants highest paid but when one team wants your low 1 and another will take much less for 2 players who aren't that far apart. Sneeds better but it isn't a massive gap...yea the deal you take is obvious.

Might not be as bad as it seems, I am seeing $53m cap space and that includes Toney having his 5th year option picked up for ~15m. With the cap going up, it's more like 70m in cap space.

Plus 2 drafts, another round of RFA/ERFA tenders next year, and some new deals which have a low year 1 cap hit.

I'm not buying the contract demands either. These teams don't want to give the Chiefs ammunition. Last year nobody would trade with the Chiefs in the first round. Now teams are low balling for Sneed even though whoever they draft will probably be an average player at best.

Also the the Steelers wouldn't trade with us because we are the Chiefs.

Veach's wizardry has the whole NFL world on edge.

I mean when you win all the time this happens, you don't want to help your competition or you immediately think they know something you don't etc.

But they should. He’s a GREAT player. Just ask Tyreek. “Jammed my ass to Cancun!”

A little more context to this guy's earlier tweet:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ok, I was maybe a little ambiguous here. Put it this way: I was told the Chiefs are being reasonable. The bigger question is whether anyone can come to terms with Sneed on a contract.</p>&mdash; Stephen Holder (@HolderStephen) <a href="https://twitter.com/HolderStephen/status/1768642372437459433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If Sneed isn't able to come to a deal with another team...what makes anyone think that he's going to sign a team friendly deal with us?

So we’re definitely not extending him then.

Possible he plays on the tag