New QB salary bar set

[bengals67]

(07-06-2020, 05:41 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: The QB deals are getting absolutely insane.  It's getting to the point where I'm not sure I'd even want some of these guys past their rookie deals.

Dak Prescott actually turning down a 34 mil per deal is a perfect example of this.  The contract given to Ryan Tannenhill is another blantant example of over-valuing these guys.  There is no way I'm paying someone like Prescott that amount of money.  And thre crazy part is, he didn't even take it.  He wants more.  They'd be better served just investing heavily in the draft at the QB position, and pairing those guys with low risk/high reward veterans (See Cam Newton, Jaemis Winston, Andy Dalton).

Obviously Mahomes is a notch or two (or three, or four) above Prescott.  But I'm still not sold on these contracts we're seeing.  Mahomes will now account for over 20% (Yearly average estimate) of their salary cap.  One single player accounting for that high of a percentage when you have 52 other guys to pay, that count towards the cap, really limits some of the moves you can make elsewhere.

I'm assuming this deal will hold more than 100 million in guarantees.  If this guy gets hurt then this franchise will be hindered with dead weight for years.  And fwiw, he did miss time last season.  And his numbers, even when healthy, came back down to reality.  Not too mention, Mahomes is one of the most athletic QB's in the league.  So what happens when you're in years 6-10 of this deal, he's then 30+ years old, and he's not as athletic as he once was?

I stop the rambling here.  I get the move.  They had to make it.  And he deserves to paid like that when you see the deals being handed out.  But I just think this league needs to pull back a bit on the spending on the position.  A 30 mil per cap seems more than fair IMHO.

Just my 2 cents...

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