Rookie QB Deal Window

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(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...

I think if you have the right QB, you can always be in the discussion as long as your roster is not very inept (see the last two seasons).  The point of the rookie wage scale for a QB is that you might not have a QB that is 100% ready for primetime, but you can surround him with a solid team because of the rookie wage scale.  It certainly happened with Dalton and Green, but once Dalton had an even average (below average, actually) NFL QB salary, those few extra pieces on the roster that they could no longer afford hurt the team.  

I don't believe any "window" will be shut after Burrow gets his 2nd bite of the apple, but he will clearly be getting a massive pay raise and the roster had better be pretty solid around him by then or it will be a very big challenge.