Originally Posted by Gary Cooper:
Even if Tua retires tomorrow, why would Miami trade Tyreek? Their new QB will need someone to throw to. They don't need to go into full rebuild mode.
If he does retire then they will likely settle and it’s in their best interest to clean their cap up quickly. They’re not winning playoff games if they’re spending the next few years paying off $100m to a qb who isn’t there (maybe much more). If that’s the case then their best interest is to frontload the hell out of that payout, pay it off quickly, and knowing you can’t compete just stockpile as many picks as you can. A piece like tyreek is especially less useful when all he can do is help you win games when you’re rebuilding but will be too old to help once you’re built
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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
This was not just any ordinary year.
It was our worst cap situation in the Reid era
We executed the biggest trade out of the Reid era
We collected the most valuable haul of comp picks in the Reid era including a third rounder which only happens if you lose way more than you acquire
It is one of our biggest dead money years when you consider we basically overpaid clark so we could at least get some small use out of him
I’d say the exit of mathieu, hill, Sorensen, hitchens, Demarcus, Darrel Williams was one of our biggest FA cleanups in the Reid era
There’s no way you can call this anything but a reset season. It wasn’t a year of letting a few people go, it was a one year effort to shed a loooot of dead weight and stockpile young talent. Yeah we still won a Super Bowl which proves my point that we can rebuild fast and quick. It will be a very very different rebuild this time with an older mahomes, with a mahomes contract we can’t as easily maneuver around and with two hall of fame core veterans no longer as the anchors.
They let Mathieu walk, signed Justin Reid. Let Hitchens walk, had draft picks behind him. Let Hill and Demarcus walk and traded away, signed MVS and JJSS.
They got the comp pick because of a coach being hired elsewhere IIRC. They didn't get comp picks from letting guys walk.
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