Arrowheads and Salary Caps??

Whatever happened to the whole Arrowheads on the helmet story? Well, it apparently fizzled away into the mists at the end of training camp. Is the salary cap story the same? I don't understand this. We have read time and again that the Chiefs have enormous room under the salary cap with which to sign players. Not only that, but we have so much room that we are, in fact, below the minimum allowed salary. And? So? WTF? Again, nothing. I have been assuming that this meant we would need to spend some real money acquiring players to fill the many holes we still have on this team. And yet, here we are on the eve of the season and apparently remain under the minimum salary. How can this be? Is the minimum salary myth? Why are the Chiefs, and the Chiefs alone, apparently allowed to enter the season with less than the minimum salary? Why are we not signing players?

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Hopes fade once again from blue to red. Go New Chiefs!!

by kabrink on Sep 11, 2009 9:42 PM CDT reply actions

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I’m pretty old-fashioned. I always have to re-read the style tips, because the newfangled way is harder than just using the old tags. But then I can type < a href = " liahfoieo h " > < img src = " " > < / a > pretty fast.

No question. Otis Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame.

by hmills110 on Sep 11, 2009 11:56 PM CDT up reply actions

That damn Carl Peterson is such a tightwad

Er….

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by ChiefDJ on Sep 11, 2009 9:56 PM CDT reply actions

So what you're saying is KC's prob'ly gonna sign somebody.

Wouldn’t it be cool if earning an arrowhead came with a big fat bonus?

No question. Otis Taylor should be in the Hall of Fame.

by hmills110 on Sep 11, 2009 11:57 PM CDT reply actions

You are right the Arrowheads were a big fat zero

The salary cap will be looked at by Chris and Joel no doubt :)

Let's Kick some ASS in 09 or Die trying

by Steve_Chiefs on Sep 12, 2009 12:11 AM CDT reply actions

The winning your Arrowhead thing

was a good idea poorly implemented.

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by ChiefDJ on Sep 12, 2009 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions

I would imagine that if the Chiefs are under the cap...

they would lock someone up, instead of sign new guys. Im not sure there are a lot of guys out there that are worth signing, Jeff George maybe?

All this salary cap space was making me hope we would land Haynesworth, but obviously that didn’t happen

Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures

by averagegatsby on Sep 12, 2009 6:33 AM CDT reply actions

Who would they lock up though?

Derrick Johnson is the closest, but he’s in the dog house right now and unless he improves on his past play, I honestly don’t see Pioli signing him just for the sake of filling up cap space.

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by ChiefDJ on Sep 12, 2009 11:42 PM CDT up reply actions

if we are under the cap they can just restructure some deals and give some players a litle more of the guaranteed money this year.

by pmwz on Sep 12, 2009 7:15 AM CDT reply actions

Didnt~

know there was a MIN. Salary~ just a CAP!

The Chiefs last time I knew were quite a bit under that cap, Ifn I remember right it was close to 23 million under the cap~

Now one way to look at this if this is true, which I think it is. Is that we are going into a UNCAPPED year next year and will have that extra money to spend to get the players THEY want~ Also we can use it to extend the ones we want to keep~.

I think the godfather ( Pioli ) knoweth what he is a doing~

What do LAWYERS and SPERM have in common?
One in TEN MILLION make a HUMAN!

by Kansan_Chief on Sep 12, 2009 9:22 AM CDT reply actions

From what I have read on this site

there is a salary minimum also. I simply don’t know the rules so assumed that we’d need to solve our problem of being under the minimum BEFORE the season started. I guess not.

Hopes fade once again from blue to red. Go New Chiefs!!

by kabrink on Sep 12, 2009 10:18 AM CDT up reply actions

If there was

a rule, and im not saying there isnt, just I have never heard of a MIN before. I would think we would be over it~ with the start tommorrow at noon!

INTRESTING!

lol,,, having to be OVER a salary amount~ INTRESTING

What do LAWYERS and SPERM have in common?
One in TEN MILLION make a HUMAN!

by Kansan_Chief on Sep 12, 2009 1:24 PM CDT up reply actions

Minimum cap

oh no the league will slap our wrists and fine us a little. I think the league is probably conscious of the economic climate and is very wary of forcing teams to spend money frivolously and will probably look the other way.

I believe the minimum is some percentage of the maximum like 85%.

Blame my wife!
Waiting until August!

by sir eccles on Sep 12, 2009 2:09 PM CDT reply actions