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Fans: The Patriots and Cowboys Are Alive and Well | The New York TimesEarl Thomas Broke His Leg and Maybe the Entire NFL | GQGIFs that help explain Week 4: Tarik Cohen laughs at gravity | NFLNFL roughing the passer penalties were less of disaster in Week 4 | SB NationWhen Fourth-Down Gambles Pay Off—and When They Don’t: Going For It In Week 4 | Sports IllustratedIn case you missed it at Arrowhead PrideMahomes fights back as Chiefs come from behind to beat Broncos 27-23...Social Media Information:AP Facebook Page: Click here to like our pageAP Instagram: Follow @ArrowheadPrideAP Twitter: Follow @ArrowheadPrideAP Editor-in-Chief: Pete Sweeney: Follow @pgsween610 Sports Twitter: Follow @610SportsKC It’s time for the Chiefs to make a big decision about their 2013 first-round pick"From Tuesday, February 19 until March 5 — about a week before teams can start sniffing around the free agents of other teams — NFL teams will be able to use the franchise tag on one of their players.On the eve of the franchise tag period, the Interwebs are chock-full of NFL writers giving their lists of which players are most likely to have franchise tags placed on them during the next couple of weeks — and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Dee Ford is on many of them.In a segment for NFL Total Access, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport names Ford among four pass rushers likely to get the tag Joe Montana Jersey , saying the Chiefs have “been very open about not wanting to let him go.”At The Ringer, Danny Heifetz amusingly explains the NFL franchise tag by referencing the Friends Season 4 episode The One With The ‘Cuffs, and then makes an argument that giving Ford the franchise tag is the most sensible move for the Chiefs.At NFL.com, Gregg Rosenthal has Ford at number three on his list of “no-brainer” candidates for the franchise tag, behind Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence and Houston Texans defensive end Jadeveon Clowney.Forbes writer Gary Phillips has Ford at the bottom of his list of seven players likely to get the franchise tag — one that includes Lawrence and Clowney along with names like Seattle Seahawks defensive end Frank Clark and Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett.These writers are all agreed: the Chiefs should — or will — give Ford the franchise tag.But is that really the right move?Putting Ford on the franchise tag for 2019 will cost the Chiefs around $18 million against the cap in the coming season.But we also know that the Chiefs currently have only about $25 million of cap space with which to work — a fact that may have escaped some of these national writers.After all... some of these scribes often write articles about Chiefs games they clearly didn’t watch.Why should we expect them to keep track of those kinds of pesky details?Photo by David Eulitt/Getty ImagesThe difficulty with using the franchise tag on Ford is that it will force the team into a high salary cap hit for Ford in the coming year.If your team has more than $40 million in cap space — which is true for a dozen NFL teams — that’s not necessarily a big deal.But using the franchise tag on Ford in such a situation could force the Chiefs into decisions about two other players with whom they also want to make long-term deals — namely Tyreek Hill and Chris Jones — and those decisions could conceivably have long-term negative effects.And in fairness Len Dawson Jersey , that could also be true of a longer-term deal for Ford — which is the only way the Chiefs could get any 2019 relief on that $18 million franchise tag cap hit for their leading pass rusher.Many fans say that Ford should get the franchise tag as a prove it deal.“Show us,” they say. “Show us you can stay injury-free and produce at a high level in another season before we talk about a long-term contract.”But it seems to me that many such fans are also quick to point out that Ford’s best year to date took place in a contract year.Will these same fans balk at giving Ford a new contract in 2020 because he was on a prove-it deal in 2019?To put it another way, if your most memorable Friends episodes were Season 1’s The One Where The Rookie Ran Away From the Ball or Season 5’s The One Where The Linebacker Lined Up In The Neutral Zone, it’s possible that your judgment about Ford might be a little... cloudy.All of this is not to make an argument that Dee Ford shouldn’t have the franchise tag placed on him in 2019. Such a thing could very easily happen, and depending on what else the Chiefs do Mitch Morse Jersey , it might be exactly the right move.Instead, it’s to remind us all that managing an NFL roster under the salary cap is an extremely complicated process with a large number of moving parts.There are no right or wrong ways to do it — except for the ones that end up improving the team now and over the long term.