Update On Burrow's Extension

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(05-22-2023, 03:15 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Sure, I agree. That was essentially what I was alluding to in my post. However, if you drop it to a lower percentage, then it ends up with Burrow making less money. You can drop it to 20% and now Burrow is making $45MM. That's definitely below his market value and would continue to be the case as the cap rises and normal QB contracts rise. Is he fine with that? Maybe so, but I tend to doubt it. Maybe they could make it very highly guaranteed to offset the cash value being below his market value.

The whole point of my post was "maybe the reason that teams haven't done this is because it isn't advantageous for the franchise". Or, at least, as advantageous. 

Obviously its not advantageous to the franchise.   When your 2 choices are to pay a QB an average of 53 million a year over the lifetime of the contract or start off his salary at 51 million and keep raising that amount every year by millions of dollars, the second option isnt really an option.