Chase on th Burrow Contract...

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(02-12-2023, 02:17 PM)Ravage Wrote: Flo reportedly makes over 2 million a year. And that's a job where you don't have to take constant hits. I'd take 2 mil a year to shoot commercials. 

Commercial actors make more than you'd think. Not NFL QB money, but way more than you'd think. Friend I went to school with was in a Lowes commercial a couple years ago. Under 5 seconds of screen time, no speaking part, she made well over 50k and it kept going up depending on how often it aired. 

I'm not knocking Flo..that's my point.  Commercials don't pay as well as NFL QB salaries, so if Burrow takes less it's to win, not because he thinks having X number of SB rings will lead to him being the next Flo.

2 million a year isn't 51 million per year.  Of all the narratives we have going, the one where Burrow takes less money now because he can make it back making commercials is the one that requires the most speculation on our part.  But I get what you are saying. Amusingly, I have a song I wrote in like 10 minutes that got enough surprise instagram and tik tok reels to bring in not much money, but more than I expected to make seeing at it was 10 years after I made the song.  Money wise, that song made me about as much as I took in working in 2011.  I have a much better job now, if you were worried about me.

(02-12-2023, 03:09 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Burrow averaged having a cap hit of around $8m/yr his first 3 years in the NFL and had 0 Pro Bowlers on the OL. The Bengals OL roster was 24th, 27th, and 27th in AAV over those 3 years, and they stink at drafting with their 4 scouts.

Not sure how him being $45m/yr rather than $50m/yr is suddenly going to make the Bengals get 3 Pro Bowlers if they can't/won't do it when he was only ~$8m/yr.

That has to be going through Burrow's mind, too.  Dalton took a team friendly deal that was worth a lot less than Burrow will make, so we haven't had a QB eating up a lot of cap space since the Carson Palmer era.  We've had some talented teams, but the OL is the point, here.  We had from 2011 to 2022 with Dalton and Burrow on rookie/friendly deals to build this o-line.  It will be easier if Burrow takes less, but Burrow going from a rookie contract to a friendly one that is still almost 6 times what his prior contract was doesn't exactly mean we can fix things. Regardless of what Burrow makes, we still have a lot less room than we have had in the past 12 years.

We're going to have a better line now.  Why?  Because Burrow is making a lot more money than he used to make, but it's not as much as he COULD be making.

Ehh...maybe.  Again, I expect Burrow to take a team friendly deal because of who he is, not because of commercials, or some sort of fear that if he got his fair salary he'd be an elite QB with an XFL squad around him.