This is encouraging...

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(02-09-2023, 06:19 PM)tms Wrote: I hate to say it, but I also think the Brady/Burrow comparison is overly optimistic.

I think comparing the Tom Brady contract to any dominant young player early in their career is a big wrong, anyway, because it misses all of the context.

Tom Brady wasn't even statistically dominant early in his career despite being dominant in winning. In 2004, before his second extension in the '04-'05 offseason, he was 17th in Cmp%, 17th in yards per game, 10th in YPA, 6th in TDs, and 9th in QB Rating. He was averaging 24 TD/13 INT per year. So obviously he didn't get top-of-the-line money despite winning.

In 2010 once he had an MVP under his belt he signed an $18m/yr deal. For comparison at that time, Phil Rivers got $15.3m/yr in 2009, Peyton Manning got $18m/yr in 2011, and Drew Brees got $20m/yr in 2012. So he was making top QB money.

It's only in 2013 when he signed a $9m/yr extension that you can start pointing to Tom Brady's contracts and be like "he took way less money than he could have!".... and it was his 14th year in the NFL, he was 36, had already made $120m, and had been married for 4 years to a woman worth $500m. 

None of that is the same circumstances as these young QBs who are in their mid-20s and only have had their rookie deal limited initial contracts.


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Would be great if it somehow happened, but I don't like all this hype, hope, and almost expectation being built up that Burrow will take some kind of 36-year-old-made-$120m-married-to-a-$500m-woman Brady contract deal. Just makes me think we're setting up the stage for a lot of people to treat him poorly like they did Joey Votto, if Burrow has the audacity (do I need to mention that my use of that word is sarcasm? best to be safe) to get the money he's worth from a multi-billionaire who will be making billions off of him and his body's health.