At the
time
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part skepticism and one part optimism. Whether it’s signing a big name free
agent, extending one of your players, or using a high draft pick, they’re all
boom or bust. Sometimes, the scouting departments hit the nail on the head and
make an excellent choice by filling a need. It’s not uncommon for these good, or
even great, signings to not gain much attention when looking back on the
signings. If you make a bad decision in the draft or free agency, you’re sure to
hear about it from the fans for many years to come. Those terrible draft picks
or the overpays in free agency can haunt an NFL decision maker their entire
career. In some cases, a really bad offseason can, eventually, cost someone
their job.The 2016 NFL offseason was full of surprising
moves
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picks with teams trading up to the top spots to snag potential long-term
solutions at the most important position in football, quarterback. Free agency,
just like the draft, is a spectacle full of surprises and head scratchers.
Looking back, there were even more headscratchers than we originally thought.
With that said, here are the top 15 moves made in 2016 that teams already
regret. The Chiefs parted ways with a couple of cornerstone defensive players in
recent days, and saw several other players leave in free agency and trade. On
Thursday, G.M. Brett Veach addressed the media regarding the tough decisions
that the AFC finalists had to make.“Change is inevitable and it’s always hard to
move on from players who have been here,” Veach told reporters. “I think it
certainly makes it more difficult when change involves long-standing members of
the community and the locker room — certainly talking about Eric Berry and
Justin Houston. What two guys better exemplify that? As everyone knows, these
guys were outstanding players. All the accomplishments on the field will
certainly never be forgotten. One of the things that Clark [Hunt], Andy
[Reid]
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they’ve had on the community and the great things they’ve done for the people
here in Kansas City. It’s certainly very difficult, but again change is a part
of this process.“Also, I want to wish the best of luck to Steve Nelson, Mitch
Morse, Demetrius Harris, all those guys. Really proud of what they were able to
do here and really excited for them and the contracts they got. Excited for
their families. All those guys were integral parts of our success. Also, Dee
Ford, of course as you guys were made aware of, we were able to reach a trade
with San Francisco for a 2020 second-round selection. Excited for Dee and his
family. John Lynch got a great player. I feel like after the trade went through,
both teams were in good positions moving forward.”It’s one thing to not be able
to re-sign players in free agency, it’s another thing to cut players who already
were under contract. Veach was asked to explain why he released Berry and
Houston.“Looking both now and into the
future
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Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones and Tyreek Hill,” Veach said. “One of the things we
made a strong effort on when I took over was to make sure we had good young
talent in the pipeline, but we were also cap flexible, and we had draft capital.
The cap was certainly a big part of these decisions — where we were and what was
going to be utilized in regard to cap space and how we can maneuver ourselves to
potentially do long-term extensions with the younger players. I think the fact
that we have a one and two twos [this year] and then a one and two twos next
year puts us in a position to be aggressive from now until the start of the
season. I certainly think you start with the cap and they are tough decisions.
But I think it’s something that looking towards not just next season, but for
the next two, three, four, five years, if you’re not proactive in your approach
then you’re always chasing your tail and you’re always in a position where you
don’t have draft capital, or you don’t have cap space.”It’s a good problem to
have
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team with multiple great players spends and spends and spends and then has
nothing left. Thus, in order to have cash and cap space for players like Mahomes
and Hill and Jones, players like Berry and Houston and Ford had to go.
Eventually, Hill and Jones will be deemed expendable in favor of other younger,
ascending players.Through it all, though, the Chiefs will have Mahomes at the
nucleus of their roster, with his contract being the top priority. The Chiefs
eventually will find out where Mahomes lands on the scale that stretches from
Peyton Manning grabbing every last dollar to Tom Brady leaving millions on the
table every year. The closer Mahomes is to Manning — and Mahomes has every right
to go there — the more challenging it will be to put a top-shelf team around him
on a consistent basis.
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