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Chiefs observers are using a weird and wrong scare tactic when it comes to Patricj Mahomes’ money.<\/div>\n
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So\u00a0Patrick Mahomes\u00a0is about to get “punished”?<\/p>\n

And the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0are about to be in trouble because they are “over the cap”?<\/p>\n

False. And false.<\/p>\n

In what amounts to a deceptively nasty trick, some media outlets are following up on the Chiefs’ painful\u00a040-22 loss to the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0in\u00a0Super Bowl LIX by suggesting that coach Andy Reid and company have more pain coming on the way in the form of “punishment” involving superstar QB Mahomes.<\/p>\n

What gives? Free agency begins on March 12, and that happens in conjuction with the start of the\u00a0NFL\u00a0business year.<\/p>\n

The recent move to franchise tag\u00a0guard Trey Smith means a cap cost (at least for now) of $24 million for 2025. And so technically, one could say the Chiefs are about\u00a0$18 million “over the cap.”<\/p>\n

The problem with the characterization – especially as it leads to the idea that Mahomes is going to be “punished”?<\/p>\n

There is in reality no such thing as being “over the cap.”<\/p>\n

Kansas City and all the other 31 teams need to be cap-compliant by March 12. And they will be. We’re not aware of any team doing otherwise.<\/p>\n

And so the Chiefs will soon start making a few moves to get them at or below the new cap ceiling of $279.2 million. And the most likely of those moves is yet another bookkeeping transaction that shuffles Mahomes’ money in a way that does nothing to his income …<\/p>\n

But does convert cap money in a way that creates room.<\/p>\n

This is a highly conventional tool.\u00a0Kansas City did it with Mahomes’ contract last year, having created $21.6 million with a flip of the switch.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, these moves require no negotiation or even permission from the player. It’s an “automatic” clause in a contract.<\/p>\n

It will be used when needed. And being cap-compliant by March 12 will be done.<\/p>\n

There will be no such thing as “over the cap” and there will be no Mahomes “punishment” … weird media scare tactics aside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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