CONTRACT FINALIZED!!!

[Essex Johnson]

(09-08-2023, 10:35 PM)samhain Wrote: This was all foretold.

The truth is that we should be grateful to even be in a situation where the organization has to make a our qb the highest paid player in league history.

Having a player like this may not guarantee us a title, but it makes one a hell of a lot more likely.  Yeah, you can win without an elite qb, but doing so is an outlier.  Teams wander in darkness for decades without finding a guy that's a no-doubt elite qb.  

Having this kind of player is a good thing.  We had an affordable franchise qb when Dalton was here.  He was a good soldier, but he was also undoubtedly limited.  He provided solid to good production at a reasonable price.  He was a Camry.  We no longer drive a Camry.  We drive a Ferrari, and a Ferrari is not cheap.

I think we are short changing the organization,  the chang they made in FA coaching and drafts with hire of ZT is part of our success also, if they had that idea under Dalton and Green we would have been better in playoffs. Today QBs are getting tons of $$ , I do not  begrudge Burrow at all but if we are paying this much, it is reasonable ro expect   miminum getting back to SB  in the next 7 years ,