Having a great QB on a rookie deal is a cheat code in the NFL

[SunsetBengal]

(09-25-2023, 10:45 AM)dxdtdemon Wrote: This is why I don't understand why the team caved in and gave Burrow a deal. Even at the $29 million of his fifth year option, there would still have been a lot of teams gullible enough to trade lots of great draft picks for Burrow that could have been used to get Burrow's successor and keep as much of the rest of the team as necessary. Instead, the Steelers have basically been given the rest of this decade's division titles because of the extreme stupidity of the front offices of the other three teams.

The Bengals organization "caved in" and gave Burrow a deal??

More like the team took full advantage by signing him as soon as a deal was able to be reached, and were fortunate to be able to spread the cost of that 5 year extension over 6-7 cap years.