What frustrates me is the argument that QB cap % is going up, it isn't the same as 10 years ago. Well it seems Tom has been hovering around 10% of the cap for a good while. His salary can go up because the overall historically continues to rise. With Russ making 17% of the overall cap, that is a huge disadvantage to the team. That 6-7% is a very solid offensive lineman he wants.
It is being reported that Mahomes is restructuring his contract. Saving 17M against the cap. Don't know how that impacts year to year, but I'm sure it helps.
If Russ is about winning and they can have a gentleman's agreement that if i re-structure this goes to an OLine player, I think we will be on our way to mending some fences a little bit.
However, to say there is a lack of trust in coaching is valid, and many of us have said it over the years. Case in point.
During the LOB prime years.
2013 Super Bowl win
2014 Lost Super Bowl - The entire defensive backfield was hurt then lost our top edge rusher. I give the D a pass and we still should've won that game.
2015 Lost in the divisional round 24-31 to Carolina....the LOB gave up 31 points in the first half...Unacceptable for an historic defense. We gave up 31 points in the first half while the offense through 0 on the board. That is horrible and a coaching issue.
2016 Lost in the divisional round 20-36. Another brutal beatdown of our legendary defense. I mean giving up 36 points with our defense is poor coaching and/or execution. But unacceptable either way.
So the valid issue is the coaching staff through the years has not gotten the team prepared when it matters most.