Road to the Super Bowl: A Kansas City Chiefs Dynasty

[K_Man915]

My playbooks:

offense: Holmgren West Coast
defense: Jim Johnson Blitz (4-3)

[K_Man915]

And now on to free agency. I have tons of cap space (about $62.8M I think), so I look to make a VERY big splash in free agency this year, hopefully setting a very strong foundation for the coming years.

My first victim was CB Asante Samuel. I signed him to a 5yr. deal worth $44.0M with an $8.0M bonus. This took $7.5M off of my cap.

Next I signed ROLB Lance Briggs. He got a whopping 5yr. $52.0M deal with a $10.0M bonus. This took $8.9M off of the cap.

Then came CB Nnamdi Asomugha. I signed him to a 5yr. $42.0M deal with an $8.0M bonus. That took $7.2M off of the cap.

That was the end of my first day of free agency.

On day 2, I decided that I would trade TE Tony Gonzalez. I treaded him to the Broncos for their 1st rd. pick (12) and their 2009 5th rd. pick.

Then, back to free agency.

I signed RT Jordan Gross to a 5yr. $37.0M deal with a $6.0M bonus. This removed $6.3M from my cap.

Next I signed FS Ken Hamlin to a 4yr. $17.0M deal with a $2.5M bonus. This deal took $3.7M off of my salary cap.

That concluded day 2 of free agency.

[Mike3207]

What personality(Ally, Commander) is your coach? Also, what skills or special skills did you get at the start with your initial 50,000 points? You're really limiting your ability to re-sign players in the future with all those FA deals. I count 30 million in cap space(without penalties or incentives) and signing the players in the draft will reduce that. Did any of those FA signings include incentives?

[K_Man915]

A couple of days passed before another free agent that I was after came up.

There were 4 more guys I was after, and I signed them in this order.

I signed RG Ben Noll to a 4yr. $20.0M contract with a $3.5M bonus. This took $4.4M off of the cap.

I signed CB Joey Thomas to a 5yr. $19.0M deal with a $2.5M signing bonus. This removed $3.2M from the salary cap.

I signed MLB Jeremiah Trotter to a 5yr. $20.0M deal with a $3.5M dollar signing bonus. This deal removed $3.4M frome the salary cap.

Last one. I signed LG Floyd Womack to a 2yr. $4.6M deal with a $500k signing bonus. This removed $2.2M from my salary cap.

The only guy that I didn't get for the minimum offer was Womack I think. I'm not sure, maybe Trotter also. Womack and/or Trotter were the only guys that incentives that came with their deal.

[K_Man915]

Quote: Originally Posted by mrs844224

What personality(Ally, Commander) is your coach? Also, what skills or special skills did you get at the start with your initial 50,000 points? You're really limiting your ability to re-sign players in the future with all those FA deals. I count 30 million in cap space(without penalties or incentives) and signing the players in the draft will reduce that. Did any of those FA signings include incentives?

I went with promoter for my personality type, and I'm not sure what my skills are, I'll check them later today. I know for sure that I didn't get any special skills. Only Womack and/or Trotter got incentives on their deals plus when I get to the draft, I got all of them to sign for minimum deals with no incentives as well. At the end of free agency I still had about $20M in cap space and since I got all of my draft picks to sign for the minimum, I still have a fair amount of room to operate with. In 3 years I made need to make some moves to re-sign some of this years draft picks. However, unless they are an absolutely key piece to my team I will probably just trade them away for picks and then get another player in the draft (granted they have developed). Or let them go in free agency/RFA.

[K_Man915]

During this time I also made a couple more trades.

I traded DT Alfonso Boone to the Giants for WR Sinorice Moss.

My next trade was a bit of a scam, but the system has flaws. This time it worked in my favor. I needed a RE and the Broncos were looking to trade away Elvis Dumervil. In my system (undersized speed rusher), he was an 88 OVA player which is pretty good. But, I remebered that during one of my other careers I had used a different philosophy that made his OVA 79. So what I did was changed my philosophy so that he was had an OVA of 79 and then traded to get him. Then, I changed my philosophy back so that he had and OVA of 88 and a POT of 90.

I traded LG Brian Waters to the Broncos for RE Elvis Dumervil.

This also reminds me that my goals were to:

1. Acquire a RT. Already got this with Jordan Gross.
2. Acquire a RE. Unfortunately it doesn't count if you do it my way.
3. Acquire a K. Probably not gonna happen.

And the players that I had on the block initially were:

1. HB Jackie Battle
2. RE Turk McBride
3. FS Jon McGraw
4. TE Tony Gonzalez Traded to Broncos
5. LG Brian Waters Traded to Broncos
6. SS Greg Wesley
7. QB Tyler Thigpen Released
8. QB Damon Huard Traded to Falcons
9. QB Brodie Croyle Traded to Bears
10. HB Kolby Smith Traded to Lions
11. DT Alfonso Boone Traded to Giants
12. CB Tyron Brackenridge Traded to Browns
13. CB Rashad Barksdale Released
14. TE Michael Allan Released
15. MLB Napoleon Harris
16. MLB Nate Harris Released
17. FS Jarrad Page
18. SS Bernard Pollard
19. ROLB Johnny Baldwin Released
20. HB Larry Johnson Probably can't trade; penalty would kill me
21. WR Jeff Webb
22. DT Tank Tyler
23. Ron Edwards
24. ROLB Donnie Edwards

[K_Man915]

The Dolphins came and offered to take MLB Napoleon Harris off my hands so I gladly accepted. And I was able to coerce them into a really good deal for me.

I traded MLB Napoleon Harris to the Dolphins for their 2nd rd. pick (64).

[K_Man915]

Right before the draft I got 2 new goals.

1. Draft a sleeper
2. Don't draft a bust