The Chiefs have the highest paid offensive guard in football, and we are calling it trade A today on Locked-on Chiefs.

From the land of the free and the home of the Chiefs, this is the Locked-on Chiefs podcast.

Welcome in, everybody, for this special edition, a little bit early with Matt, Derek from

Chief Digest.com, joining us. Go check him out at Chief Digest. I'm Ryan Tracy, the founder,

Rogue Analytics and Performance Consulting, as well as NFL33.com and RGR football, where I do the fun stuff.

It gets a little crazy, but check all those out and check out Matt as well. Thanks for making us

your first listen here on the lockdown podcast network. That's your team every single day.

Now go check out another lockdown show for your next one. It is a big day, one that I had theorized

just as recently as yesterday that probably was not going to be the day that it's become. We're going to

run it all down for you if you would like and sub and hit that bell. We would appreciate it. You every dayers, we appreciate you.

Thank you for making it another day where you listen to us first for your chief's news.

And with Matt here, that goes all the farther. We're going to talk about the future of the

offensive line, maybe longish term coming up a little bit later in the show. What this season's offensive

line looks like now with a significant change to the demeanor, in my opinion. And we start

with the fact, Trey Smith has become the highest paid offensive guard in football. The

chiefs made the decision to make a blockbuster deal, Matt. Lots of details about this stand out to me.

But four years, reportedly 94 million were waiting on the actual signing, correct?

What is your take, your initial reaction to this deal for Trace Met?

Yeah, I mean, you know, usually when you're talking about the franchise tag, you talk about

the franchise tag defining the value of the deal. And in this one,

it pretty much did spot on. I mean, the franchise tag was going to be 23.4. You can slice this

contract up a lot of different ways, three years, four years, guaranteed, anything you want to.

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