I'll say it: In sports $250 million isn't that much.

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It's a huge amount of money for an everyday person, but let's cut Joe some slack.

Mike Trout has a $426 million contract and he's hurt a lot.
Mookie Betts $365 million.
Plenty of baseball players make more than Joe.

In the NBA, Jaylen Brown just signed for $304 million.

I know that fans expectations for Joe switched when he signed that, but putting the dollar figure he got in perspective with other sports.

Joe is THE CHANGE in this franchise. Without Joe, we'd be here hoping to make the playoffs for a crack at a win. He's taken us well beyond that.

Too many of our best players get villafied. (Pickens, Dillon, Spikes, Palmer, etc.) Let's not do that to Joe.