Rookie QB Deal Window

[Essex Johnson]

(01-30-2021, 09:00 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: It’s time for a new thread, it’s getting boring in here...

I’ve seen a lot of talk about the short window we have before Burrow gets paid. “We have to win NOW while Burrow is on his rookie contract!”. It’s true to some degree, but it’s not do or die from what I’ve seen. We can still make the Super Bowl with a well paid Burrow over the next decade.

3/4 of the championship teams have pretty wealthy QBs with substantial cap hits. Rodgers, Brady, Mahommes with Josh Allen being the exception.

When looking at the 14 teams they made it to the playoffs, the majority of them have a QB with a cap hit in the top half of their position.

Yes, winning now with Burrow is our best chance and what we all desire, but paying him doesn’t mean it’ll be the end of the line for this teams chances...

Well, maybe since we are the Bengals, but...

If we win under Burrow we will work a deal to resign I think .. I think the issue is more if we dont win under Burrow we should really think is he worth resigning but if we dont win his 2nd contract wont be that big like other QBs who had won ie Goff so he will be cheaper to resign anyway.