Bulldog
The Legend
Well, there's no way if I am the owner I am paying Cousins $34M if Tom Brady is earning $22M and the best quarterback in the division, Carson Wentz, is on a rookie deal for peanuts that will allow the Eagles to continue to add free agents and trades the next 2 years.
Just because some dumb decisions are made by guys like McNair in Houston (Osweiler) and Bischiotti in Baltimore (Flacco) to pay franchise deals to players that are less than franchise performers doesn't mean I have to follow suit.
Going back and thinking about a lot of these big contracts, the ones that tend to work out are the ones where a team, say Green Bay, already has a proven passer in Aaron Rodgers and they are merely resigning him to a long-term deal to keep his salary consistent with the trends in the market.
Ditto for the deals several years ago for Drew Brees in New Orleans and Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh.
Where you see a guy get paid on the basis of strictly regular season stats or one 'hot' run in the playoffs, etc. you end up with the albatross contract like the one Ozzie Newsome has had to deal with in Baltimore for Joe Flacco. He hasn't been able to retain any of his higher tier veterans as they hit their walk years.
Guys like Osemele end up going to the pro bowl for another club.
Don't want to see that here.
Just because some dumb decisions are made by guys like McNair in Houston (Osweiler) and Bischiotti in Baltimore (Flacco) to pay franchise deals to players that are less than franchise performers doesn't mean I have to follow suit.
Going back and thinking about a lot of these big contracts, the ones that tend to work out are the ones where a team, say Green Bay, already has a proven passer in Aaron Rodgers and they are merely resigning him to a long-term deal to keep his salary consistent with the trends in the market.
Ditto for the deals several years ago for Drew Brees in New Orleans and Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh.
Where you see a guy get paid on the basis of strictly regular season stats or one 'hot' run in the playoffs, etc. you end up with the albatross contract like the one Ozzie Newsome has had to deal with in Baltimore for Joe Flacco. He hasn't been able to retain any of his higher tier veterans as they hit their walk years.
Guys like Osemele end up going to the pro bowl for another club.
Don't want to see that here.