From the land of the free and the home of the chiefs, this is the

locked on chiefs podcast. Welcome back to chiefs kingdom. It is the very beginning of

free agency week. We have a lot that is going to be coming down. We're going to finish up.

Taking a look at what the Chiefs need to do moving forward here today, when we talk

about Tyron Matthew and the extension that I believe is coming as well as the

Cornerback Group. I want to let you know as well. Tomorrow we're going to have our

first conversation ever with Nate Tice of the Athletic and of their football podcast over at the athletic with

Robert Mays. I think that's going to be a lot of fun. You guys will dig that and

Matt Derek will be back with us again tomorrow as well. We're going to check in with

mad as free agency goes on because there are

a lot of things that are going to go on. We are brought to you today by builtbar. Go to builtbar.com

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Tracy the founder of Roganel Knicks and your hosted RGR football. Chris

will join me here in a bit but Patrick Mah did something, or the chiefs got something done with

Patrick Mahomes. We'll talk about this with Matt tomorrow, more in depth, but did something after

we had recorded for the week, so we were kind of out of it. But I I want to go over the numbers because what they were able to do is that they converted his roster bonus.

You'll remember that when the Mahomes contract was signed, we were very confounded by, hey, this is an interesting way to structure a deal for a franchise quarterback.

By putting all this money into roster bonuses, because they're convertible.

So you can do anything that you want with the different volume

of that roster bonus.

This year, it was quite large large and they did elect what they did on Friday

was to convert all of it into signing bonus which does pro-rate the cap hit across his contract

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