Jeremy Maclin Leads The Mission To Mars
Oh man, poor Alex Smith. Sorry dude who I have now spent 5 straight comics mocking, but woof. It’s pretty clear the Alex Smith era is coming to an end after this year. The Chiefs drafted a QB in the first round with skills Alex doesn’t have, and now they just dumped Jeremy Maclin for cap reasons. Maclin is the best WR the Chiefs had. He’s the only WR Smith has thrown a 1,000 yard season to. He was a YAC specialist, perfect for taking Smith’s dumpoffs into interesting territory. Smith’s contract makes him an easy cut next season. Smith is done in KC.
But whatevs, he’s 33 and not getting better. Lets talk about how messed up it is to cut Maclin basically a few weeks after going to his wedding, Andy Reid. That’s cold. That’s ice cold. Polar Ice Caps Cold. Did you even get him a wedding gift? Did he open the box and find a pink slip? That’s so cold, man.
I mean monetary wise it makes sense. Maclin costs a lot of money against the cap and if the Chiefs are heading for a rebuild and prepping to sign some of their defenders to some long term contracts it makes some sense to cut a guy who had one good year and one injured year who costs major moolah. But still, after you went to his wedding day a few weeks before, man. Cruel. Another thing: Why wait so long? Oh. Oooooooh. Because if they cut him after June 1st, they freed up more cap space. That’s some cold, calculated shit. Surely with that kind of news Jeremy had to know it was coming, right? NOPE! Thanks for inviting me to your wedding, Jeremy! Get the fuck out!
I would hate it but it would also be extremely funny if he ends up back on the iggles. I guess we got a free agent to watch now. Lord knows nothing else is happening. Remember how mad people got about me making lots of deflategate comics? I wish we had something half as interesting as deflategate happening right now. Two more months.
Don’t do anything more stupid Chiefs I would like to take a break from moon comics now.
Edit: Lol I finished the comic early and forgot to schedule two days ahead instead so happy early comic, bros
The worlds can be one together
Cosmos without hatred
Stars like diamonds in your eyes
The ground can be space
With feet marching towards a peaceful sky
All the Moonmen want things their way
But we make sure they see the sun
Goodbye, Moonmen
Really curious to see where Maclin ends up. He’s had injury problems, but when he’s healthy he’s a good receiver, good enough to be a #1 for a lot of teams, and he’s in his prime. Chicago, LA, and Baltimore all make sense, but apparently Shady is making a huge pitch for Buffalo, and Tyrod could certainly use more weapons.
A local source called BillsFanatics says that they already are in preliminary talks to sign him and he wants to be back with McCoy. BillsFanatics has been right 9/10 times, so they definitely know what’s going on. Would be huge for our shite receiving corps.
Agreed. The BF guys have said that they have out a tentative contract for $4-5M a year plus incentives.
If that’s true, that would be a huge coup, especially after most of the WR got gutted after being routinely outbid.
At least he’ll meet Sailor Moon right?
Wait, she’s not real? …I’ll just go and cry in the corner with my Linkin Park record playing.
Everyone’s still commenting on Sexy Rexy
Also today is Monday
lol rip maclin
Good ol Self Tacklin’ Maclin.
Well of course Andy Reid is accustomed to Polar Ice Caps Cold, he is a walrus you know.
Also, it’s going on 3 years and I STILL can’t believe the Chiefs did not throw a TD to a wide receiver in 2014. As good as Alex Smith may be (good, not great), that is a bad distinction to have on your resume. Hopefully for the Chiefs their next QB has a higher ceiling so they can actually have a passing attack in the top half of the NFL.
Andy Reid coached in the city of brotherly hate for 13 years. I’m kinda surprised he didn’t cut Maclin DURING his wedding
To his credit, he did managed to help set up the shitstorm about the sack record by getting the league to cave into his demand about Strahan’s sack in one of the Eagles games in 2001 season. It doesn’t seem like a big deal that time but still, it’s pretty douchey what he did.
Maclin could have been designated as a June 1st cut at the beginning of the league year and cut then. They just wouldn’t get the cap space until June 1st. That makes it an even colder move because a lot of rosters have already taken shape and teams have already filled holes.
Exactly, he could have been designated as a June 1 cut from day one, and that’s why it wasn’t a premeditated situation. Every time something like this happens, there’s more to the story than we know. Maybe they were trying to get him to take a pay cut and it didn’t happen so they cut him. Maybe he got in trouble somehow. Maybe they just saw something in OTAs that worried them. Whatever the reason, I’m sure it wasn’t the plan all along.
Andy Reid didn’t cut Maclin, John Dorsey did. Andy Reid is the coach, not the GM.
He did everything in Philly, which is why I guess people assume he does everything in KC, but he specifically made a point of handing off duties to other people this time around. At the very minimum he has plausible deniability.
Why does the description read like a First Take segment?