Yes 55 47.41%

No 61 52.59%

But doesn't he also have to sign his franchise tag offer? IE - if he doesn't sign that, then he's holding out as he vaguely threatened to do. Is there a deadline on that or he can just sign it whenever?
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OBJ can sign the tag offer deep into the regular season.

And I think Leveon Bell proved to the rest of the league that holding out and refusing to sign the tag does not benefit oneself financially in the grand scheme of things. There's a 0% chance OBJ holds out.
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Positional value changes that, though and Orlando has already said he’s not playing without a long term deal in a tweet.

I think a deal gets done at 11:59 before the deadline, but I do think a holdout is very possible.
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Only allowed 6? It was actually just 4 and those 4 make 27th in the league and 23rd overall but hey lets just give him a blank check.
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Mahomes was sacked 3 times in his last SB and that stat doesn't begin to describe how putrid that OL was.
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Ya'll are reading way too much into that tweet or comment or whatever it was.
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He's not holding out lol.
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True, but other stats do:

https://chiefswire.usatoday.com/2021...n-nfl-history/

"According to the folks over at ESPN, Mahomes was pressured on 29 of his 56 dropbacks, good for 52% of his total dropbacks. It was also good for the most pressures against any QB in the Super Bowl in NFL history, passing a record previously held by Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly in Super Bowl XXVI."
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Not a blank check, but he'll make a ton. There are no better options for KC right now.
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I should just mute this thread until the 15th shouldn't I
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That's a cumulative rank/stat, so it's unable to track or show improvement that he made throughout the season.

Eric Fisher was dogshit for most of his career outside of some decent play towards the end of the 2015 season, and he got a lucrative longterm deal. LDT was a developmental prospect his first two years, and outside of the final 6 or so games of his 3rd year, he wasn't a good starter in his 3rd year. He signed a lucrative longterm extension, one of the highest for his position at the time.

OBJ had one season in the new offense, and he had some initial struggles. Giving him a new deal that ranks in the top 5 for his position when his cumulative numbers look mediocre is nothing different from what the Chiefs have done in the past, and it's worked out just fine for them.

If the guy were actual dog crap and/or not good enough, I'd like to think Andy Reid would be out in front to say, "Now hold on just a minute..."
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I guess the whole point of the 15th deadline is to eliminate hold outs. There's really no point since you can't renegotiate before the end of the season. \

Of course that's not to say the team and player could negotiate behind the scenes for the next season.
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Fair enough. But if you are going by sacks, Mahomes is really hard to sack.

And I would guess he makes the OL look better than it is even if you look at the full set of stats like pressures. Sometimes the eye test is relevant.

Signing Brown to a big fat, guaranteed contract may well be KC's best option.

I don't really get good vibes about a long guaranteed contract with Brown. But I obviously hope something works out for the LT spot.
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He better hurry up and sign or he can go get fucked in the ass with a fox tail
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Nate Taylor said to look at Ronnie Stanley’s contract. Sounds like Orlando Brown Jr saw that as a measuring stick. He’s getting $19.75 million so $20 million would probably get that done (which would be a monumental steal).

Also said bring the highest paid isn’t really attainable
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