Mike Brown wants to keep Burrow long term

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(01-18-2023, 10:54 AM)Daddy-O Wrote: The players union would have a fit if he does that but he would sure be #1 with fans here and many around the league.

Maybe. But Tom Brady has been doing it for decades and no one has made a fuss. It was just generally recognized that Brady preferred sacrificing his salary to allow teams to be built around him.

The highest average annual value contract Tom Brady has had in his entire career is 25 million dollars. 

2022: 25M
2020-21: 25M
2019: 23M
2018: 15M
2016-2018: 20.5M
2015-2016: 9M
2013-2015: 13.6M
2010-2013: 18M
2005-2010:10.7M
2002-2005: 7.4M
2000-2002: 288K

Granted, salary caps have increased a lot over the years, but I believe Tom Brady was always outside the top 5 in QB salary despite being the best QB in the NFL for almost the entire time.

Following his rookie contract (which was obviously a fantastic deal) his cap number, among quarterbacks, was 
13th in 2003
8th in 2004
5th in 2005
1st in 2006
10th in 2007
2nd in 2008
4th in 2009
4th in 2010
8th in 2011
17th in 2012
5th in 2013
12th in 2014 
14th in 2015
18th in 2016
20th in 2017
11th in 2018
11th in 2019
6th in 2020
15th in 2021
17th in 2022

With a few exceptions in the late 2000s, likely where some deferred money happened to jack up his cap hit for that year, Brady was outside of the top 5 for the majority of his career and was in the teens in several of those years. 

I don't see why the players' union would let Tom do this, but not Joe :).