What a franchise QB can do

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(01-21-2020, 12:57 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 2. You shouldn't assume anything when dealing in hypotheticals. Especially when there's evidence that Montana didn't seem to seek the biggest payday even when he had the freedom to do so. The 49ers offered to trade him anywhere he wanted, and he chose a winning situation in KC and signed a reasonable 3 year, $10 million dollar deal. For comparison, Dan Marino had signed a 5 year, $25 million dollar deal two years prior.

5. Moot point, because the Patriots just work in more All-Pros and Pro-Bowlers. For every Collins or C Jones they lose, they've brought in guys like Randy Moss, Darrelle Revis and Junior Seau, willing to play for less to get a ring. That wouldn't have been possible in the 80's, because there was no real free agency.

2.  Montana was a 37-year-old who had thrown 21 passes in the previous 2 years combined, and the last year he played he threw a career high 16 INT. He also hadn't started a full 16 game season since he was 27.

Dan Marino in 1991 (two years prior) was a 30-year-old coming off a 12-4 season and hadn't missed a start in 3 years, and only 4 starts (all in one season) in the previous 7 years.

That hardly goes to show that Joe would take less money.

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5. And once again...
Moss only played 3 years before they couldn't afford him. 
Revis only played 1 year before they couldn't afford him.
Junior Seau was a 37-year-old shell of his former self when he came to the Patriots and didn't really do much.

Imagine if the Patriots had the ability to deny Moss and Revis FA and just could keep them indefinitely without regards to salary cap.

The same knock goes to the Steelers back in the day. There's zero chance you could keep Shell, Blount, Ham, Lambert, Harris, Stallworth, Bradshaw, and Swann all on the same team in today's game. You literally couldn't afford it under the salary cap rules and so FA would have torn that team apart quickly. That greatly offsets and quickly overwhelms the ability to get an older player for one-three years who might take a little less to win a championship.