Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Not according to what I heard.
If he doesn't report to camp his contract this year "doesn't count" and he has to play an additional year at a shit salary.
So the Chiefs have all the leverage. He'll be there.
As for his injuries, dude has always been susceptible to getting nicked up. I think this is a key factor in why the Chiefs have been slow to extend him.
They want to wait and see if he can make it through a whole year with nothing serious I'd bet.
You're wrong.
If he reports by week 10 (iirc) he gets credit for a full year. Just like any other player. [Reply]
Colquitt, Sorenson, X. Williams, Hitchens (if he doesn’t perform this season), LDT. All these guys will be gone soon.
You’ll also likely see a reshuffle in cap as well. Chiefs won’t have to pay Erving’s incentives bc he won’t be on the field this year unless injury happens, Fisher will likely get extended to lower his cap hits again and have a backloaded contract and Sammy will be gone either after this year or after next year.
Veach will need to start taking the Ballard draft approach next year and trade back. [Reply]
Now for the bad news -- Fescoe says*the current contract differences between the Chiefs and defensive tackle Chris Jones are big enough*that he may wind up holding out for a portion of training camp. Jones, according to Fescoe, is looking for much larger amount of guaranteed money in his next deal than the Chiefs are currently willing to give.
"Both sides want to get the deal done," said Fescoe. "The Kansas City Chiefs are willing and wanting to get a deal done with Chris Jones. They want to get a nice, long-term deal done with Chris Jones – somewhere between the three- and five-year range we’re seeing for all of these contracts right about now. Chris Jones wants to get a deal done with the Kansas City Chiefs. The problem is they’re $25 million apart from where they need to be to actually get a deal done." [Reply]
He could sit til week 10 and get an accrued season
He won’t he’ll show up at some point
It’s essentially the same scenario Frank Clark was in last year in Seattle. Take a little less now for safety or play it out and get a monster deal [Reply]
Originally Posted by SAUTO:
Why would he sign a contract with that included? That seems dumb.
who knows...maybe his agent is dumb...but it's not THAT out of NFL contract tradition to include a punishment for not reporting to camp...I'd bet it's happened before [Reply]
Chris Jones is probably going to miss a couple weeks of training camp as well because I don’t believe, and the folks I talked to as well, don’t believe there’s any way to cover that $25 million gap between now and the start of training camp," Fescoe said. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
who knows...maybe his agent is dumb...but it's not THAT out of NFL contract tradition to include a punishment for not reporting to camp...I'd bet it's happened before
Most likely not on a rookie deal for someone that wasn't a 1st rounder. [Reply]
Originally Posted by SAUTO:
Now for the bad news -- Fescoe says*the current contract differences between the Chiefs and defensive tackle Chris Jones are big enough*that he may wind up holding out for a portion of training camp. Jones, according to Fescoe, is looking for much larger amount of guaranteed money in his next deal than the Chiefs are currently willing to give.
"Both sides want to get the deal done," said Fescoe. "The Kansas City Chiefs are willing and wanting to get a deal done with Chris Jones. They want to get a nice, long-term deal done with Chris Jones – somewhere between the three- and five-year range we’re seeing for all of these contracts right about now. Chris Jones wants to get a deal done with the Kansas City Chiefs. The problem is they’re $25 million apart from where they need to be to actually get a deal done."
I heard that too. He says that the Chiefs are offering $42M guaranteed and they are wanting $67M guaranteed including an increase over the $1.6M in base this year as well. [Reply]