Apparently, Sneed missed the last game and will miss the next game due to a quad injury. Sneed was terrific last season while performing despite injury concerns. Given the status of his knee, a big contract was a bad investment. Further, the :-) ability to draft and develop DBs played a huge role in his decision-making.
Jaylen Watson was doing a great job replacing Sneed. While McDuffie was the one taking over the no. 1 corner job, it was Watson who moved into the lineup with Sneed's absence. Watson was a well above average corner before getting injured. Imagine the Chiefs cap situation if they tried to fit a deal for Sneed.
Would signing Trey Smith and Creed Humphry to extensions have been possible? I also doubt the CHiefs would now have the flexibility to add Hopkins. They had to get Tennessee to eat a lot of contract as it is. I think the Chiefs would have to have performed serious cap contortions to address the WR room if they had signed Sneed. [Reply]
Veach has immunity status in KC for being the best GM ever and winning mutiple super bowls. He doesn’t need to be vindicated for anything. It is as if he is a diplomat with constant immunity. [Reply]
Would signing Trey Smith and Creed Humphry to extensions have been possible?
I will be surprised if they are able to keep Trey Smith. His market is gonna be very expensive. It seems to me the big choice was between LJ Sneed and Chris Jones. Fortunately the Jones contract is looking pretty good right now, as long as he stays healthy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
I will be surprised if they are able to keep Trey Smith. His market is gonna be very expensive. It seems to me the big choice was between LJ Sneed and Chris Jones. Fortunately the Jones contract is looking pretty good right now, as long as he stays healthy.
Yep...
I still maintain the decision to quickly pay Creed and reset the C market was because they are gonna turn around and make a near identical offer to Trey, which is not disrespectful at $18m-ish per year.
If he wants to leave a great situation like he has had next to his best bud Creed, that will be his call and he has every right to take the $21M+ he will get from another team.
But if you wanna stay in the dynasty, yeah, gonna be closer to $18m. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Great Expectations:
Veach has immunity status in KC for being the best GM ever and winning mutiple super bowls. He doesn’t need to be vindicated for anything. It is as if he is a diplomat with constant immunity.
Immunity is the only way he is not doing jail time for Skyy Moore.
But he deserves a break he has been amazing overall [Reply]
I still maintain the decision to quickly pay Creed and reset the C market was because they are gonna turn around and make a near identical offer to Trey, which is not disrespectful at $18m-ish per year.
If he wants to leave a great situation like he has had next to his best bud Creed, that will be his call and he has every right to take the $21M+ he will get from another team.
But if you wanna stay in the dynasty, yeah, gonna be closer to $18m.
i think the Chiefs will try to resign Smith. The way they do it will be to get a low cap number early in the contract and then move on from Thuney. Why? Thuney is getting older and investing in the younger Smith makes more sense. Try to deal Thuney for a low round pick with the trade partner picking up the final years of his deal.er the guy they drafted in the third round this season is the Thuney replacement or you draft one. You can get an outsanding rookie guard in round 2/3. [Reply]
I’ve never been too upset about the decision we made here with sneed. It was a business decision.
But man, he is an easy guy to root for and it’s always been sad to see him in a different uniform. Especially when a guy leaves without even a hint of a trail of tears behind him. [Reply]
Veach rarely takes huge silly gambles, moves on when the price of a new contract would cripple us, and he has a fantastic track record on what we have gotten in return.
There is a reason he has been half of the dynamic duo that is my Adopt-a-Chief since him and Clark pulled off the Mahomes deal.
Dude is golden, not quite perfect, in my opinion. [Reply]
I hated seeing Sneed go. But it was apparent with all of the draft capital that they had spent(pretty successfully I might add), that they had no plans to pay Sneed. If our other corners were scrubs, then it would have been different. But Sneed was a luxury that the Chiefs just couldn't responsibly keep. [Reply]
