09-10-2023, 09:18 AM
(09-09-2023, 03:24 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: You thought Burrow would take a hometown discount. He clearly didn’t. Even the Bengals have stated Burrow will be paid “at the highest level ever provided in the NFL.” By convention, Burrow is now the highest paid player in NFL history despite whatever new math and mental gymnastics you want to use to disagree.
Yes, oncemoreuntothejimbreech, I hoped Burrow would take a discount. But like everything else involving the exchange of money, whether or not one considers something a discount depends upon one's expectations.
I recently found something I had been wanting to buy for a long time in a discount outlet for $79 dollars, Everywhere else I looked it was $99 dollars. I felt good about the price I paid even though three years ago, before inflation, I had seen this item costing only $59 dollars.
Same with a recent purchase of gasoline on a trip I made. I paid $3.79. If i compared it to what I was paying just three years ago, $1.99, I would have been very disappointed. But I know the $1.99 of three years ago (when Mahomes signed) is unlikely to come back anytime soon, and thus I was pleased to not be paying the nearly $5 I had to pay at one time.
I had been hearing numbers banted about for Burrow of from $55 million per year to $60 million per year. When I first heard the report that Burrow had signed for $55 million per year, for five years, I was, I admit disappointed. But then when I saw the postings that with the first two years wrapped in, it gives a 7-year average of $45 million per year, then I was happy. This was below what I had been conditioned to expect. Especially given the inflation of NFL QB salaries.
Like $1.99 gas, I don't expect the lower payments given to QB's just a few short years ago to come back. The agreement with Burrow was better than my expectations.
