Orlando. Brown the left tackle for whom they traded with
the Ravens at some point in the not-too-distant past to get.
He's the one free agent, the Chiefs absolutely need to
re-sign true or false.
Well, I would say it's true. I would say he's clearly
their most important free agent
but Mike if somebody out there offers him 30 million bucks. If
somebody offers him a Tyree kill
contract
and somebody might I don't think Brett Veatch will re-sign
him and I mean
obviously they want to re-sign him
but I think Andy Reid
Read and Brett Veach have done a good job in
in placing proper valuations on
their players. And I think they will do the same thing this
year.
The Orlando Brown trade with the Baltimore Ravens in 2021
resulted. In the Ravens, getting a first round. Pick
a third round, pick a fourth-round pick and a 2022.
Fifth rounder,
but giving back Brown a second rounder,
and a sixth round or so. It wasn't a straight first-round
pick. It was a flip-flop of A1 and A2, but there was other
stuff too. My point is, the chiefs made an investment in
Orlando. Brown they got two seasons out of them
franchise tag team last year.
They're looking at a 20 percent bump
or long-term deal
or he hits the open market and the bottom line is this
you better have a plan to replace him to plan for
replacing Tyree. Kill was pretty simple. We'll go without
the game. Breaking speed guy to whom Pat Mahomes is tempted to
hold the ball a little bit too long so
he can throw it 60 yards in the air, we'll just run the offense
and throw to the open man. Slightly different with a left
tackle. You better have somebody step in who can play
left.
Well, there isn't a different approach. You can take to
the left, tackle, you can't say we're fine without a left
tackle, we're fine without Pete. Let me, let me talk.
We're fine without a left tackle, you have to
have a plan B for left tackle, and
that's my concern
and they know it's not going to be cheap,
but hey, Pete Peter, when they,
when they take the
Patrick Mahomes deal,
which is incredibly Team friendly
and it's getting more and more Team friendly every year
relative to the salary cap. One of the reasons Patrick Holmes
did that deal is so they could keep other great players. And
this is one of those situations where maybe Orlando Brown is
one of the great players you keep and maybe you do what
the Patriots used to do to Tom Brady not to Tom Brady but with
the Tom Brady contract
it becomes very powerful when other guys are trying to be
pigs at the trough to say, wait a minute.
The quarterback isn't, why should you be, don't you want
to be part of this and the Patriots work that into like
a 10-year thing? In New England? Maybe this is the first real
test of that. Peter
can they get Orlando Brown
to be like Patrick Mahomes and not insist on top dollar?
Well, I mean that's going to be a big question because you saw
last year in the spring that reportedly anyway, the demands
of Orlando Brown on a new on, a new contract, were seemed
excessive. Okay. So we're going to see right now, what Orlando,
Brown does
this offseason and this will be his one big chance for a Payday
probably in his NFL career unless he ends up like a Trent
Williams or you know or one of those guys who
he's forever.
I think what I would, what I would say mic is everything
about it. I agree with you. Other than the fact that I just
don't think that
Reed & Veatch are going to be held hostage.
And if I think of Orlando, Brown insists on whatever
the number is 30 million. I don't, I have no idea what it'll be no
one knows,
but if he insists on money, that is out of sight in there.
In their cap planning.
I think they would either try to franchise him a second time.
What would it be about 20 million?
They franchise and 20 percent bump over last year? Whatever
was last year times 1.2? Yeah,
yeah, I'll look it up here.
Yeah, look it up and tell me but to me I think rather than
rather than look at this as something that here's the one
guy we really need
Kansas City is just not accurate. Acted that way and
they put an exclamation point on it last year with Tyree kill
you know when they thought that they could get a decent deal
for Tyree kill rather than continue to pay him what he
wanted with.
Just at the very top of the market. Now, they did make him
a great offer. At the end surprising Tyree killing his
agent. Drew Rosenhaus. I just have a lot of questions about
whether they would do in the range of Age of 28 30 million
for
Orlando. Brown long-term.
Peter, you were so close when you said 20 million
because last year, it was sixteen point six. Six two million
you multiply that by 1.2. That's how you bump it by 20%.
The number is nineteen point, nine, nine, four four, and
under the rules of price of
Price, is Right. You've gone over
so, wop wop but but you were very, very close. So it's just
about 20 million to keep Orlando Brown for one more
year, and maybe that's what they'll do.
The thing that we
Can't forget the cap keeps going up and up and up. So
these numbers, which sound big in isolation relative to what's
available. They get smaller every year
and I keep going back to this tension. Always have get as
much as you can
while you can. They're only paying you because you're
great. The minute, you're no longer great, they're no longer
paying you, great money.
That tension on one, hand versus being part of
a championship team that keeps winning. But what's that Super
Bowl ring? Really do once. You've got one. Then you got to
okay fine, but I'm taking care of my family. I've got money,
I can invest in other businesses, generational wealth, etc, etc.
These are the
issues that players have to resolve. I want to do one last
item before we take our break and this was the one that was
actually getting kicked to the curb but I'm fascinated by this
one. Fill in the blank.
The Chiefs biggest obstacle
to repeating
as Super Bowl. Champions is what
The greatness of.
Three or four other quarterbacks in the AFC
and look, Mike,
you know what? I find really interesting right now is just
the simple fact that
next year,
you know, Kansas City is going to be playing in what I think
will probably be at least a slightly fortified division.
You know, they haven't lost Patrick Mahomes, has it lost in
the division on the road. Road ever
and any and they've hardly lost any
games in their division in recent years.
But I do think
that the addition of Sean Payton
makes Denver,
20% more dangerous, maybe 30% more dangerous. Okay,
I also think the fact that
Philadelphia
or they've got a very tough schedule. They play
next year Jalen hurd's jobber. Oh, Josh Allen
and obviously they play, you know, the Chargers twice
and some Justin Herbert twice,
Kansas City's got a really tough schedule
and and look, I'm not saying that home field means all that
much. Particularly when you have Patrick Mahomes,
he's proven, he doesn't care where the games are played,
but I do think that
the biggest obstacle is not the re-signing
of
And oh, Brown, it's the fact that there are so many good
quarterbacks in the AFC we haven't even talked about Lamar
Jackson because
we're not positive where he's going to be, but if he's in
Baltimore, that makes the Ravens, obviously really really
dangerous. So
I just look at it and think that the quality of opposition
for Kansas City is far higher
and farm deeper in the AFC.
Then the quality of opposition for Philadelphia in the NFC.
That was a great answer. I'm going to give you mine in
a much less
amount of time Joe burrow.
That's the biggest obstacle because Joe Borough was 3 and 0
against Patrick my homes in calendar year 2022
and Joe burrow.
For a moment there longer than a moment. It felt like after
the chiefs were up 10,
the jail bharo is going to do to Patrick Mahomes what Patrick
Mahomes does. The other teams when he's down 10,
it felt like they were going to drive down the field and win
the game until Chris Jones forced the intentional
grounding
sacked, Joe Baroda and the drive and then all of a sudden,
the Chiefs have the ball back and I thought we're going to
overtime until Josephus. I did what he did
which I still feel horrible for the kid because was
he was caught in a tough spot but it happened. He got flagged
field goal. Makeable hair comparison, but Curry
kicks it through and the Chiefs advance. And you forget how
hard it was to overcome the Bengals. So, I think
the Bengals in jail bharo are the biggest obstacles and Peter
that home schedule. Next year, for the Chiefs,
renew your season tickets now, folks,
because it features some Eagles,
the bills and the Bangles, three of the nine home games.
Well 8, because one's going to be played in Germany. Wouldn't
it be something? Now, they're telling us
to break, but wouldn't it be something? If one of those
three games is the Germany game for the Chiefs? I don't think
it will be but wouldn't it be something if the NFL exports?
Why they don't need to, they don't need to.
They don't need to.
They don't. They could be the Chiefs
against
the local
group of German players who gets him and just anybody
against the Chiefs and they're going to fill that stadium. So
it doesn't have to be one of the great games on
the schedule. Let's take a look, Mike Mike last news. Last thing
on this sub, do head
last. Thing on this subject. So I wrote the other day that
the two games in Germany
are going to be played on consecutive Sundays
in November to 9:30 a.m. eastern games. One will be
the Patriots being the home team.
The other will be Kansas City, being the home team
and you're right, Kansas city has an embarrassment of riches.
Can you imagine even
even if they put
the Chargers, or the Lions
as the team there that'll be a great.
Actually a really great football game and then
obviously, you know, the Patriots being over there with
Belichick
in the span of eight days.
Germany is going to have two excellent football games,
that really is incredible when you think of the excitement for
the one game this year to put both of them, they're that
close together. The folks in Germany are going to get
just a little more enough of a taste. I think it's going to
make them want even more. And we talk about teams in London
eventually I think is Roger Goodell suggested during
the season for team division at some point with a team or two
in Germany to go with a team or
two in.
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