Kansas City is trading its first-round pick Thursday night, along with three other picks in the 2021 and 2022 drafts, to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl OT Orlando Brown and one pick in the 2021 draft and another in 2022, per sources.
Originally Posted by tredadda:
While people love playing for this team, at the end of the day money talks. He is gonna want what he feels he is worth. If KC pays it then great, if not and someone else will he could easily leave.
Worse case scenarios is that we tag and trade him after this year and probably recoup at least a 2, or we lose him in free agency and get a 3rd round comp pick... This was a good deal no matter what. [Reply]
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
Worse case scenarios is that we tag and trade him after this year and probably recoup at least a 2, or we lose him in free agency and get a 3rd round comp pick... This was a good deal no matter what.
No doubt it was a good deal. He is better than anyone else we could have gotten at #31 and to trade up for someone with his potential would have cost us more than what we just paid. He's already a better run blocker than Fisher so if he's as good or better than Fisher in pass blocking we win this trade by a mile. Look at how much better our offense was with Fisher in the lineup. [Reply]
Yet another reason that this deal was pretty much necessary...
The Vikings are making calls trying to trade UP from #14 in hopes that Slater or Sewell fall, probably to #7 where the Lions pick.
As I mentioned in my posts about trading up to get a tackle, I felt like the Chiefs would have to get ahead of the Chargers at #13 AND the Vikings at #14. If the Vikings trade up, that would make it even harder for the Chiefs to get in range to get Darrisaw because the point of trading with Detroit would be to get in front of Carolina. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dunerdr:
No people are avoiding the hell out of the actual topic of "over paying for protection".
Do people actually think they overpaid?
I am one of the most vocal "playmakers over fatties" people on this board and this deal was not only necessary, it was an absolute fucking no-brainer. They stole a 24-year old pro bowl tackle for essentially a mid-2nd round pick. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Yet another reason that this deal was pretty much necessary...
The Vikings are making calls trying to trade UP from #14 in hopes that Slater or Sewell fall, probably to #7 where the Lions pick.
As I mentioned in my posts about trading up to get a tackle, I felt like the Chiefs would have to get ahead of the Chargers at #13 AND the Vikings at #14. If the Vikings trade up, that would make it even harder for the Chiefs to get in range to get Darrisaw because the point of trading with Detroit would be to get in front of Carolina.
It was just going to end up costing too much. As we've discussed I was pro trading up, but to get up anywhere near where they need to get it was just going to be outrageous.
One of the guys that go early in this draft may end up being better than Orlando, but cost factors in.
We essentially gave up a mid 2nd for him. Now we will have to pay him, but he's got alot of potential upside. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Do people actually think they overpaid?
I am one of the most vocal "playmakers over fatties" people on this board and this deal was not only necessary, it was an absolute ****ing no-brainer. They stole a 24-year old pro bowl tackle for essentially a mid-2nd round pick.
Exactly. I was hoping for Williams, but only because I assumed OBJ wasn't really an option. KC is in a far better position now than if they had landed Williams. SF fisted themselves at the last minute...again. [Reply]
I honestly have zero idea why anyone is worried about whether KC will pay OBJ.
You're always going to have to pay your LT.
There's no way in hell Veach doesn't already know that.
There's no way you don't pay a pro-bowl level LT who is 24 years old when you were prepared to go all in on 32 year old Trent Williams and pay him north of $20m per year.
It's possible that we wait and see him in this offense this year before we do so, but I have every expectation that if OBJ plays well here, we lock him up for the long haul. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chris Meck:
I honestly have zero idea why anyone is worried about whether KC will pay OBJ.
You're always going to have to pay your LT.
There's no way in hell Veach doesn't already know that.
There's no way you don't pay a pro-bowl level LT who is 24 years old when you were prepared to go all in on 32 year old Trent Williams and pay him north of $20m per year.
It's possible that we wait and see him in this offense this year before we do so, but I have every expectation that if OBJ plays well here, we lock him up for the long haul.
Yeah this. I'm 100% sure they know they're going to pay him, but obj likely just wants a year to prove he deserves to be a top paid LT. [Reply]
Originally Posted by -King-:
Yeah this. I'm 100% sure they know they're going to pay him, but obj likely just wants a year to prove he deserves to be a top paid LT.
Which is awesome. Come in here and work your butt off. Earn the right to protect the greatest player the world has ever seen, and get paid accordingly. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chris Meck:
I honestly have zero idea why anyone is worried about whether KC will pay OBJ.
You're always going to have to pay your LT.
There's no way in hell Veach doesn't already know that.
There's no way you don't pay a pro-bowl level LT who is 24 years old when you were prepared to go all in on 32 year old Trent Williams and pay him north of $20m per year.
It's possible that we wait and see him in this offense this year before we do so, but I have every expectation that if OBJ plays well here, we lock him up for the long haul.
Exactly. And if Fisher doesn't get hurt we were going to pay real money on an extension for him. Getting a OBJ who is on the final year of his rookie contract is steal for the Chiefs. The question is going to be can we resign him without tagging him. I hope we can.
BTW: We are paying Brown like 80k more than we are paying Mike Remmers this year. LOL
The entire line group is only costing the Chiefs 26M in 2021 or about 14% of our cap. That's a fucking bargain. [Reply]