Dalton vs. Bortles article

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(01-09-2018, 10:25 PM)PacMan Fever Wrote: http://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/come-this-andy-dalton-blake-bortles/5bhRIXNUu8UZt7Fy26o9LN/

I'd probably get out from under Dalton's contract and let Bortles and McCarron battle it out this summer
With the money saved by unloading Dalton we can probably buy ourselves two Zeitler quality O-lineman
What do you think Bengals nation?

Um... what?

You apparently think Dalton makes a whole lot more money than he actually does. Among all starting QBs (who are no longer on their rookie contracts) Dalton is almost at the very bottom of salary.

2017 QB Contracts Yearly Average:
1. Stafford $27m
2. Carr $25m
3. Luck $24.6m
4. Palmer $24.4m
5. Brees $24.3m
6. Cousins $23.9m
7. Flacco $22m
8. Rogers $22m
9. Wilson $21.9m
10. Rapist $21.9m
11. Manning $21m
12. Rivers $20.8m
13. Newton $20.8m
14. Ryan $20.8m
15. Brady $20.5m
16. Tannehill $19.3m
17. Bradford $18m
18. Smith $17m
19. Dalton $16m
20. Taylor $15.3m
21. Glennon $15m


And then you get into either backups, or players still on their rookie contracts. Keeping in mind that Glennon got $15m, and Cutler got $10m to be an emergency backup off his couch, how much do you realistically expect to save by removing Dalton's $16m/yr and replacing it with Bortles (who is a much worse QB)? MAYBE $4m/yr?

You expect to get 2 Zeitlers for $4m/yr? Even if they replace Dalton with a rookie in the first round, Trubisky is making $7.3m/yr, so you save roughly $9m/yr. Zeitler is on a $12m/yr deal. You couldn't even get ONE of him, let alone two, and then you'd have a shittier QB who would still have to play behind an awful OL, because you used your first round pick on a QB rather than OL.