Daniel Jones released

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(11-22-2024, 05:50 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: I can wholeheartedly agree on the WR front. 

QB is a little more complicated. A team's success is so disproportionately affected by the QB that if there is even a glimmer of hope that you have found "the guy" you have to pay them. You have to go back 20+ years to find a true "game manager" QB to win the Superbowl. Even QBs like Flacco, Eli and Foles showed that they were at least capable of playing lights out. 

No, you really don't. If you massively overpay a mediocre QB trying to fool yourself you're guaranteeing that you're never going to win a SB anyway because you're giving a massive chunk of your cap to a mid player.

I never hated Dalton because he was never paid as a top QB, at no point was he ever paid as a top-10 QB, which let us put a better team around him (though we refused to participate in FA and had a mediocre HC so we never took full advantage). 
-In 2014 when Dalton signed his $16m/yr deal that was 12% of the 2014 salary cap. 
-Daniel Jones' $40m/yr he got in 2023 was 17.8% of the salary cap. 
-Trevor Lawrence's $55m/yr this year was 21.5% of the salary cap.

You can't just be a glimmer of hope if you're committing that much of your salary cap to a QB. They need to be SPECIAL, or you're ensuring that you'll never be able to build up a good enough team around them to make up for their lack of being special.