NFL Inflation

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(08-20-2017, 10:57 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Even with the cap increasing, QB contracts have gotten out of control with now a $25m/yr deal. Back in 2005, Palmer signed a 10yr/$119.5m deal, so $11.95m/yr of a $85.5m cap, or 13.98% of the cap.

On today's cap of $167m, that would be $23.35m/yr, instead of the 14.97% that $25m/yr represents.

Granted that's not an enormous increase, but it's just going to be the start of QBs getting an absurdly disproportionately large piece of the pie. I guess where it's most visible is what the mediocre/bad QBs are making. Ryan Tannehill making over $19m/yr, Brock Osweiler and Sam Bradford both making $18m/yr, Mike Glennon making $15m/yr, etc. There are currently 14 QBs making over $20m/yr.

Going back to your 2012 reference point, $20m threshold in 2017 would be roughly $14.37m/yr in 2012. Only 8 QBs reached that threshold in 2012. Went from 8 to 14 in just a couple years. So there are some positions out there that have gotten all screwed up cap-wise.


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Back to your Zeitler topic, even if you account for cap space differences, that would still put him at $8.62m/yr in 2012 cap. That would have still made him the 2nd highest paid guard in the entire NFL. Zeitler is an above average OL, but he's sure as hell not the second best in the NFL. Or even top 5.

They could have gotten TJ Lang (2016 Pro Bowler) for $9.5m/yr, or Larry Warford for $8.5m/yr, not signed Andre Smith and signed Zuttah instead (same cost), and then they could still afford to re-sign Andrew Whitworth with their cap space left.

Whitworth/Boling/Zuttah/Lang/Fisher
Ogbuehi/Boling/Bodine/A Smith/Fisher

Which is more comforting to look at? Lol

While the bolded is likely true, it just takes one team who thinks said player is worth a contract like that in order for that player to get paid like a top talent. That team may be overpaying out of necessity rather than actually feeling that player is an elite talent, but it doesn't matter to them. All they care about is trying to win it all. Whatever it takes.

If I were looking for a job and a company offered me X and said I wasn't as good as I thought I deserved, I'd be looking elsewhere to see if other companies would offer me more. Most FAs do the same to set their market value.