not, not only the quarterback Market, but for this,
the market of players in general, you want the salary cap to keep
going up? You want players to keep getting more and more
money.
And when I saw my deal, I knew I was going to be pretty set
for life regardless of what the market kind of happens,
but you just keep use keep playing. I mean, money is one
thing, but when you get those Super Bowl rings at the end of
your career, I think that's maybe the thing that
you look back upon and I think I've made
enough money from the football field and obviously off of it
as well, that it won't matter. At the end of the day, I think.
Especially the quarterback position kind of the next guy,
is the top paid guy there. Any of these top-tier quarterbacks
they make such a difference on the on NFL football teams that
it's going to get passed up. And I mean, even if you look at
guys that signed last year to this year, they got
passed up. And I'm sure when the
burrow Herbert and Russell and all these guys come around,
they'll keep setting the bar even higher
and so I always want to make sure that you always want to
get paid. Like I said, take care of your family but I want
to have a great team around me as well.
And so whatever way that is
I'm going to make sure I have a great team for me around me
the rest of my career. Here.
Look,
that's his prerogative. That's his right, that's his choice,
he signed through 20:31, which keeps him from being
the next guy to surpass,
whoever's making the most at any given time.
He's taking the leap of faith. The Chiefs, at some point will
recognize. We got a problem here and we got to take care
of. This is getting embarrassing. What Patrick
Mahomes is making. He's still at 45 million a year in
the markets at 75 million a year and
and it could get there by the end of the decade, the way
the cap is going.
And again, it's, his choice is his prerogative. But Chris,
what struck me after, I had a chance to digest his comments,
you know, it worked for the Patriots,
to get Tom, Brady to take less,
and use the attitude on everyone around him, right,
that they should take less to. I don't think it's working for
the Chiefs Tyree kills, not there
because he wouldn't take less Orlando, Brown didn't sign last
week or on the 15th when the deadline came and went for
franchise tag players, he didn't take less
so there. Really not getting the full advantage of
the hammer that comes from having a quarterback who willingly takes
lies. So you can have a
team that isn't just Stars making market value.
But starters across the board who are getting good money and
backups, who are getting good money. So you constantly have
that good team around the quarterback. So, it worked for
the Patriots, it isn't working yet for the Chiefs. Yeah, well,
I think there's two things that jump out to me
one. Hey, the Patriots, you know,
For lack of a better way. Had a bunch of like robots, you know,
they didn't, you know, they had a certain type of guy on their
football team that to me is just different than Kansas
City.
Kansas City's got a little bit more, hey Andy Reid there in
a little bit more Renegades. We're into a guy that might
make a mental mistake every now and then but he makes seven
freaky plays after that when we. Oh my gosh. That's amazing.
So they're a little bit different as far as the type of
guys that are and how they're wired and their organization.
I think that that would be the first thing I would say.
And then hey I mean listen I it's a good conversation, is it
working? I'm going to be one to say. It is working. It is it's
hard. They're really good.
You know, they spent a ton of money last year. I mean, Joe to
knees. They're I mean they're paying, Chris Jones is one of
the top D tackles and football, Travis Kelce is top tight, end
in football and other.
They've made big moves that way to where I do think it's
helping their football team. But, yeah, the Orlando Brown
thing. I think that one especially is the one you look
at to go.
Wait.
This guy protects Mahomes and this is why he did take
a little less money to make sure that you know he can have guys
like this protecting them and they can be dangerous that way.
So I do think it's working.
I just don't think it's that easy all the time especially when
they go for really big time Blue. Chip players they do.
That's where they're a little bit different than New England
that way to. They're not afraid to go out and say wait, we saw
a guy in another team, he's really good. We're going to
bring him here and make
him the man or you know, take it taken. Take advantage of
a guy coming out in the draft who might not be perfect as far as
off-the-field stuff but they take them
and they make them the man. And yeah, then they want to be paid
so they have to deal with that personality a little bit more
than New England to.
But but that's, that's the problem. I know. Working in
the extent, they're still good, but it's not working to the extent
that Tyree kill doesn't take their best offer and wants out
in Orlando. Brown doesn't take their
best offer before the deadline
for signing franchise tag players to multi-year Deals and
could be out after next season because Because if you're
willing to go year to year for two years,
you make your way to the open market and you're gone and what
they gave up to get him in the trade with the Ravens is just
gone so they didn't bargain for that, they expected. Yeah, when
they traded him,
and this was mentioned last week by Jeff Judea of NFL
Network, the idea that the chiefs were frustrated, a deal
wasn't done. And they thought they were getting a different
guy.
They thought they were getting a guy basically, and I'm
paraphrasing here. They thought they were getting a guy who was
going to do a deal.
That was It from his perspective trying to break
the bank. Yeah. Get to the top of the market. The kind of deals
that Patrick Mahomes
is talking about. He
see the it's a tough year for Patrick, Mahoney the thread
because
when you start saying hey, you know what it works for me to
make so much money. Yeah, half a billion over 12 years. I'm
set for life and I understand other guys are trying to try to
get more and more and more and that's okay for
them. Well guys in your locker room are going to hear that. So
it's okay for us to Patrick, you're making your half
billion. Lien and you got all these other deals and you don't
want it. You're not pushing for it, you just want Super Bowl
rings.
That's fine. Well, the rest of us want to get paid market
value and you're not, you know, and it's a subtle thing,
it's a very subtle thing.
But when Patrick Mahomes is basically giving everyone in
the locker room, the nod to go get as much money as they can.
It's kind of hard to make the the Stepford Patriots thing
work in Kansas City. Yeah. No, it is.
It is, and I think there's a lot of things that play into
that, let's not forget. It is still a really good team.
Really good roster, you know, so yeah. But
I think Kat yeah, Orlando Browns the one that is a little
bit eye-popping Tyree kill again. I know yes, you know,
time
Mahomes took less money and all that,
but I don't look at that and being like they offered him
big-time money, they just weren't willing to go to
like, oh my gosh, money at his age
and I think, you know, again, I think that's good business,
it's not. And then they spent the money elsewhere, and they
got some receivers in there. We're going to see, I'm not
wrong, I don't think anything wrong with that decision and
I think there was money there to pay
him and make him pretty happy.
So, you know, again, I think that was their. There's other
factors that play into that and then with the Orlando Brown
one. Yeah I'm in an eye.
I saw and heard the same thing. You said I mean I don't think
they thought Orlando Brown who as of right now and what you
hear is looking to be yeah
like like wham. Bam. Thank you ma'am. The highest-paid left
tackle ever. I mean that to me is probably
Be what they did not expect and I understand that and he's,
you know, really good but I don't think he's like
been that good to the point to where you just go. Oh, I want
to be a bull, the market out, and Trent Williams, the hell
with his contract. I want to make significantly more than
him. That's probably surprises the Chiefs. Yes,
right, but let's keep this in mind. Yeah,
a guy that becomes the highest paid left tackle, the league
history isn't necessarily the best left tackle and Leo.
I know best line, tackling the game. I know he's just a guy
who's in the right. Place the right time to take advantage of
the Confluence of circumstances Odell and
leverage himself into that. Usually, it happens
on the first day of free agency and it will happen for Orlando
Brown the first day of free agency 2024. Unless the chief
take care of him next year or unless he just completely falls
off the face of the Earth because the cap,
this is the thing
that we all need to keep in mind and the players especially
the cap is going to keep shooting up. The cap is going
to keep going up
and That's
the reality here as we consider Orlando Brown
and
his expectation. Yeah, and that's why calamari, you know,
it's 46:1,
the Caps going to keep going up your sign up for seven years.
Your deal is going to be obsolete. I think this is
a fact for all these guys, where's the cap now, and
where's the kept going?
And where the cap going is going needs to get discussed more.
When we talk about what guys are getting paid now,
because it's a huge factor in what? They're getting paid now
where the cap is going to be next year, the year after
the year after that. Because I think it's can keep shooting up
and up and up Chris. Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with you
there either Mike. I mean, it's a,
it's a money train right now,
the NFL's killing it.
And the way last year went with the ratings and everything
there. And yeah, the gambling at all, that it seems like it's
all going up up and up.