Some restricted free agent intrigue: the Chiefs hosted Cardinals DT Xavier Williams on a visit this weekend, per source. If Williams signs elsewhere, the Cardinals can match or lose him for no compensation.
To put it into context. Williams ranked 42nd against the run, and Logan ranked 93rd!!. Looks like Veach is doing all he can to make sure teams don't run on us freely like Henry/Bell did last season. And that makes sense because the less time the opposition have the ball, the more time our exciting offense will have to do their thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
To put it into context. Williams ranked 42nd against the run, and Logan ranked 93rd!!. Looks like Veach is doing all he can to make sure teams don't run on us freely like Henry/Bell did last season. And that makes sense because the less time the opposition have the ball, the more time our exciting offense will have to do their thing.
Originally Posted by Pestilence:
How do you know they aren’t working on numbers? They probably have to try and structure it so that Arizona doesn’t match it.
Oh they surely are, just wanna see that position get locked down before the draft is all [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hoover:
I don't know, maybe Arizona doesn't want him. The trick is getting him to sign the sheet. If they match, they match. I'll say this, I wouldn't sign him to an offer sheet on a Sunday, why give them extra time. I'd fax it in around 2 pm tomorrow.
Steve Wilks ran a 4-3 in Carolina. He brought over Carolina's LBs coach to be his DC. Wilks said he'd like to run a 3-4 but wouldn't rule out that maybe Arizona isn't committed to it enough to overpay for guys who are built primarily for 3-4. [Reply]
signing guys like this that are RFA you want to structure the offer in a creative way that baits the team with the rights into NOT matching. So you need to look at their future years and who they have to pay, as well as if the team has more cap space, etc.
Chiefs could try and backload the deal into the 2019, 2020, etc years where the Cards might have less space even though they have more now than the Chiefs.
But the Cards are paying Bradford on a 1 year deal which clears in 2019 so it doesn't matter.
Packers did something like that with Kyle Fuller, backloaded the offer, so if the Bears end up getting good players in a couple years a Kyle Fuller 17 or 18 million cap hit will force them to cut him. [Reply]
