12-05-2019, 05:18 PM
(12-05-2019, 04:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Ehhhhhhh
Not really true. They just make the big ones we all remember because they were lol levels of failure.
From my admittedly imprecise handcount, there were 18 contracts of $40m+ handed out to non-QB free agents last year. (Not counting trade-and-extensions.)
9 went to teams who either have a winning record and/or are winning their division.
3 went to teams who have a .500 record and are not winning their division.
6 went to teams who are sub-.500.
2 of the league's 5 10-win teams are represented among those 14 contracts.
0 of the league's 1-2 win teams are represented among those 14 contracts.
Ehhhhh, very true.
When teams sign free agents this off season none of us will know what their records will be in 2020, so the only way we can discuss players going to "losing teams" is to look at their last years record.
According to Spotrtrac of the top 20 highest paid free agents that switched teams last year 16 of them went to losing teams. The seven worst teams (5 wins or less) signed 8 of them. Of those seven teams only one has a winning record this year (SF)
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/2019/all/
