kcchief4lif 910 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 For the Kansas City Chiefs, the work being done by general manager John Dorsey and his staff right now will be key to how the Chiefs’ 2015 roster will be shaped. The calendar below shows you the key dates for the offseason, including the window for franchise tag designations (February 16-March 2), window for signing your team’s own upcoming free agents (March 7-10), the start of the new league year (March 10) and the day teams can begin offseason workouts (April 20). 2015 February 2 Waiver system begins for 2015. February 7 NFL Regional Combine, Doctors Hospital Training Facility, Davie, Florida. February 10 Beginning at 12 noon, New York time, NFL clubs may begin to sign players whose 2014 CFL contracts have expired. Players under contract to a CFL club for the 2015 season or who have an option for the 2015 season are not eligible to be signed. February 14 NFL Regional Combine, Methodist Training Center, Houston, Texas. February 16 First day for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players. (Justin Houston) February 17-23 NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana. February 21 NFL Regional Combine, Paul D. Bowlen Memorial Broncos Centre, Dove Valley, Colorado. February 28 NFL Regional Combine, Under Armour Performance Center, Owings Mills, Maryland. March 2 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players. March 7 NFL Regional Combine, Halas Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois. March 7-10 Clubs are permitted to contact, and enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their 2014 contracts at 4:00 p.m., New York time, on March 10. However, a contract cannot be executed with a new club until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on March 10. March 10 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must exercise options for 2015 on all players who have option clauses in their 2014 contracts. March 10 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit qualifying offers to their Restricted Free Agents with expiring contracts and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First Refusal/Compensation. March 10 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2014 contracts and who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agency credit. March 10 Top-51 Begins. All clubs must be under the 2015 salary cap prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time. March 10 All 2014 player contracts expire at 4:00 p.m., New York time. March 10 The 2015 league year and free agency period begin at 4:00 p.m., New York time. The first day of the 2015 league year will end at 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 10. Clubs will receive a personnel notice that will include all transactions submitted to the league office during the period between 4:00 p.m., New York time, and 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 10. March 10 Trading period for 2015 begins at 4:00 p.m., New York time, after expiration of all 2014 contracts. March 19-21 NFL Career Development Symposium, Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona. March 21-22 Super Regional Combine, Arizona Cardinals Training Facility, Phoenix, Arizona. March 22-25 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. April 6 Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2014 regular season may begin offseason workout programs. April 20 Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs. April 24 Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign offer sheets. April 29 Deadline for prior club to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents. April 30-May 2 2015 NFL Draft, Chicago, Illinois. May 8-11First weekend after the NFL Draft: clubs may elect to hold their three-day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday. May 11 Rookie Football Development Program begins. May 15-18 Second weekend after the NFL Draft: clubs may elect to hold their three- day post-draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday. May 18-20 NFL Spring League Meeting, San Francisco, California. June 1 For any player removed from the club’s roster or whose contract is assigned via waivers or trade on or after June 1, any unamortized signing bonus amounts for future years will be included fully in team salary at the start of the 2016 League Year. June 1 Deadline for prior club to send “June 1 Tender” to its unsigned Unrestricted Free Agents. If the player has not signed a contract with a club by July 22 or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later, he may negotiate or sign a contract from that date until the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, at 4:00 p.m., New York time, only with his prior club. June 1 Deadline for prior club to send “June 1 Tender” to its unsigned Restricted Free Agents who received a qualifying offer for a Right of First Refusal Only in order for such player to be subject to the CBA’s “June 15 Tender” provision. June 15 Deadline for club to withdraw qualifying offer to Restricted Free Agents and still retain exclusive negotiating rights by substituting “June 15 Tender” of one-year contract at 110 percent of the player’s prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged). June 21-27 Rookie Symposium, Aurora, Ohio. July 15 At 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for any club that designated a Franchise Player to sign such player to a multi-year contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract with his prior club for the 2015 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the club’s last regular season game. Mid-July Clubs are permitted to open preseason training camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to the club’s earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran players. Veteran players (defined as a player with at least one pension- credited season) other than quarterbacks or “injured players” (as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may report to a club’s preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club’s first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later. Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to report to the club’s preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all rookies and first-year players. A three-day acclimation period will apply to players who are on a club’s roster up to and including the mandatory veteran reporting date. Players who join the roster after that date may practice (including wearing pads) and play immediately after passing a physical. July 22* Signing Period ends for unrestricted Free Agents to whom a “June 1 Tender” was made by prior club. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights. July 22 Signing period ends for Transition Players with outstanding tenders. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights. * or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later. http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-2/2015-NFL-Offseason-All-You-Need-to-Know/1cccbd14-ebca-43ff-8963-3b2a5fd130d5?adbid=10153064094718373&adbpl=fb&adbpr=11373923372&campaign=social_20150202_39780497 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer 8,686 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 need to pin this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eraser 722 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 1. Ask players if they want the Chiefs to do everything they can to sign Justin Houston 2. Sign Houston to a reasonable contract. He is probably due something close to what JJ Watt got, maybe a little less. 3. Remind players they wanted the Chiefs to do what they could to pay for Justin Houston 4. Ask players to take agree to share some of the cost of paying for Justin Houston 5. Cut any player who is not willing to restructure their contract. Any player who is not willing to give up a little cash in order to keep the best player on the team is not really a team player. The Chiefs don't need them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefensiveMan 758 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 1. Ask players if they want the Chiefs to do everything they can to sign Justin Houston 2. Sign Houston to a reasonable contract. He is probably due something close to what JJ Watt got, maybe a little less. 3. Remind players they wanted the Chiefs to do what they could to pay for Justin Houston 4. Ask players to take agree to share some of the cost of paying for Justin Houston 5. Cut any player who is not willing to restructure their contract. Any player who is not willing to give up a little cash in order to keep the best player on the team is not really a team player. The Chiefs don't need them. Tamba Hali says he wouldn't mind taking a pay cut. Hopefully Bowe as well. I think DeVito is gone IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calichief 3,016 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Tag this thread Thanks I like seeing the timeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eraser 722 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 I'm reminded Tom Brady restructued his contract. Players need to buy in. If not, they're expendable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefensiveMan 758 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 I'm reminded Tom Brady restructued his contract. Players need to buy in. If not, they're expendable. Yup, Alex Smith will need restructuring too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eraser 722 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Peyton Manning restructured. So did Elway, Roethlisberger, Romo, Rivers, Cutler, Eli Manning, and Rodgers. Its not uncommon. In fact, many, such as Elway and Manning, have given up money to help build a better team (which coincidentally helped their career). Restructured contracts usually only calls for taking salary in the current year, and converting it into a bonus (which is spread out over the remainder of the contract, even though it is paid up front). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhataLerror 370 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Kicking the financial can down the road by "restructures" that convert base salary to signing bonus is not the same as "taking a pay cut". It drives me nuts that Tom Brady, whose per-year salary is far below what quarterbacks like Peyton Manning or Ben Roethlisberger are paid, gets dropped in the same bucket as those other guys. The reality is that the Patriots are in a pretty good spot cap-wise, while the cap situations for the Broncos and the Steelers are precarious. The last thing I want to see is Bowe's 2015 base salary converted to signing bonus in order to keep the Chiefs' 2015 salary cap number low, as that ensures that Bowe's 2016 and 2017 cap numbers will be higher, and his dead money greater. If Bowe is a "team player" he'll trade some of his 2015 base salary for a lower amount of 2015 fully guaranteed money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefsfan1963 1,101 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Honestly now, how many in here would happily take a pay cut for the betterment of your co-workers and organization? Not I! Now if it was a choice of taking a paycut and continue working or not that's a different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer 8,686 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Honestly now, how many in here would happily take a pay cut for the betterment of your co-workers and organization? Not I! Now if it was a choice of taking a paycut and continue working or not that's a different story. in this case I think your reasoning is faulty. let me try & reword it for you. in the Sports world would you rather take a pay cut to have a fighting chance at being a world champion or not and play for cellar dwellers your entire career. Of course its a gamble either way but these guys have been in a "team " environment most of their lives. Some like Tamba are probably pretty well grounded and then you have those that are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHard 2,061 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 First of all, great freaking post 4life. Second, I am not a restructure guy. It is usually the same money or more. It is kick the can. Let's take in the shorts now. Sign our 11 or 22 or how ever many draft picks we have and build for the next ten years. We have the staff so let's just pay our dues and cut the dead weight and move on. I think this is a very important off season for us. Please, please don't trade picks away for retreat FAs. We can fill our holes the old fashion way as long as we don't think that we have to win the Super Bowl next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest_Chieftain 3 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Honestly now, how many in here would happily take a pay cut for the betterment of your co-workers and organization? Not I! Now if it was a choice of taking a paycut and continue working or not that's a different story. Making 15 million a year is a lot different than $50,000 a year. Taking a 30% pay cut on 15 million and still making roughly 10 million a year is a lot easier to do than going from 50,000 a year to 35,000. Playing football or professional sports for that matter isn't a typical job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eraser 722 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Honestly now, how many in here would happily take a pay cut for the betterment of your co-workers and organization? Not I! Now if it was a choice of taking a paycut and continue working or not that's a different story. It has been done. I know of a man who owned a company. One of his employees was ill, and could not work. He did not want to fire her, but could not afford to keep her because his company was too small. He told his workers what was going on. They all, including the boss, took a pay cut in order to protect the ill worker. That is how it should work. Because it doesn't always is not a sign that it can never happen. I am sure government would probably get involved now, and prosecute that business owner if that happened today. We do live in a different world, but it doesn't have to be that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-airline-boss-sets-exec-example/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://isportsweb.com/2015/06/22/kansas-city-chiefs-three-takeaways-to-remember-heading-into-training-camp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/article25095634.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPPT1974 21 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Smith's technique just needs to be reworked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 http://www.scout.com/nfl/chiefs/story/1556563-stability-guides-reid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Smith was tied with 4 other qb's for 2nd most "on target"/most accurate qb in nfl last season: Arrowhead Pride retweeted Brandon Kiley @ BKSportsTalk 38m 38 minutes ago # Chiefs QB Alex Smith was "on-target" on 74% of his passing attempts in 2014. Only Drew Brees was more accurate. https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/07/03/why-not-all-passes-are-completions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Yeah, yeah, yeah, how could you not be accurate throwing dinks and dunks? Still, he's operating what is called well and the offense is built to the team's strengths. Our strengths are wider this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCSLC2008 606 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Arrowhead Pride retweeted Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar Jun 25 Chiefs had 0 TD catches by a WR in 2014, but had 6 TD passes to players lined up out wide or in the slot. Does it really matter? So from players who were lined up as a receiver and we're defended as a receiver, six touchdowns were scored. Right? So what is the big deal? I obviously would want more than six anyway, but it seems like there's a lot of power in the zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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