Brett Veach deserves a statue outside Arrowhead Stadium for his cap gymnastics this offseason
By John Buhler
It is decided that Brett Veach has earned himself a statue this offseason.
We’ve seen enough, as Brett Veach just earned himself a statue outside of Arrowhead Stadium.
What the Kansas City Chiefs general manager pulled off was nothing short of impossible. While Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones used the global pandemic as an excuse for not getting a long-term deal done with starting quarterback Dak Prescott, Veach just ate Jones’ lunch by extending defensive lineman Chris Jones, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and now tight end Travis Kelce.
Brett Veach has earned the right to place his statue wherever he wants it.
The Chiefs didn’t have enough available cap space to afford to pay a monthly cable bill at one point of the offseason. Now, they have Jones, Mahomes and Kelce under contract for the foreseeable future, and things are fantastic. Admittedly, using extensions as a way to move money around is brilliant, but Veach should be commended for his innovativeness to pull this whole thing off.
Do general managers typically deserve statues? No, if you give them a plaque to put on the wall on their office, a Super Bowl ring, or even a gold jacket, that would suffice. Before Mahomes can even legally rent a chair, there should be a plan in place to commission a statue in Veach’s likeness outside of Arrowhead Stadium. He has earned the right to put it wherever he wants it to go.
If Veach wants it in the middle of some poor guy’s parking spot, so be it. If he wants his statue in the middle of the Arrowhead Stadium turf, in the exact spot on the football field where Tyreek Hill caught Mahomes’ pass on Wasp, well, everybody is just going to have to learn how to play around it. There were statues in the outfield of the old Yankee Stadium before, so there is precedent here.
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If the NFL wants to honor greatness in the league, they should name the annual salary cap in Veach’s honor. Every year, all 32 NFL franchises will have to navigate the Brett Veach Salary Cap. Why have a building name after you on a college campus when you can have an entire league’s salary cap named after you? Daryl Morey has to be so, so, so, so jealous right now, as he should.
It’s not a matter of if, but a matter or where Veach will decide to place his rightfully earned statue.