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Post subject: Flacco Highest paid in NFL  Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 5:48 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:10 pm |
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Jesus, imagine what we're gonna have to pay Wilson after he wins the next two SB's...
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:20 pm |
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What the heck are the Ravens thinking? Flacco is not worth that.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:37 pm |
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looks like he's never winning another super bowl. WIth Ray Lewis retiring and now that the Ravens have significantly less cap room. Flaccos going to find out just like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rodgers that getting paid more leaves the front office less money to sign other big team needs.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:48 pm |
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Someone calculate on average how much more money Flacco is making than Wilson per year
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:21 pm |
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That's what happens when you take a team to a Super Bowl title in your contract year. The stars aligned for young Mr. Flacco. Factor in the dearth of quality quarterbacks available this offseason and it's understandable that Baltimore would panic and pay the man whatever it took to keep him there.
And in this particular case, the Ravens probably still have nightmares about what happened to their quarterback situation the last time they let their Super Bowl-winning QB become a free agent.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:30 pm |
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Flacco's underrated. He deserves this and then some. Dude just wins, anywhere, any month. He's like Eli, but with an arm and throws spirals.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:32 pm |
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therealjohncarlson wrote: Someone calculate on average how much more money Flacco is making than Wilson per year Flacco is getting $20,100,000 per year on average. Wilson is getting $549,500 per year on average. So Flacco is making $19,550,500 more than Russell annually or roughly 36.5x the amount.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:49 pm |
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Well deserved. Flacco is a great quarterback and is a huge winner.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:56 pm |
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What were the Ravens supposed to do, let him walk and start over? They got stuck and had to pay him.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:06 pm |
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Salary cap nonsense escapes me. Someone please explain.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:47 am |
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Don't fret. That record will only last for, oh, say, 3 years.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:41 am |
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AbsolutNET wrote: What were the Ravens supposed to do, let him walk and start over? They got stuck and had to pay him. They really were hosed. I think looking back with hindsight 5 years from now, we may well see letting him walk as the thing they should have done, but there is no way they could have done it. Absolutely none.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:21 am |
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kearly wrote: Don't fret. That record will only last for, oh, say, 3 years. If in fact it hamstrings the Ravens, will that be a good thing?
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:00 am |
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Flacco is clearly not the top QB in the NFL, but what choice did they have?
I don't think it'll hamstring them. The Ravens are a smart team, and smart teams always find ways to manipulate the cap.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:47 am |
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We sound like fans of other teams discussing Wilson, when discussing Flacco. I dont think we get it.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:56 am |
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This is getting out of hand. Every franchise QB (self proclaimed or proven) wants to be the highest paid player in the league, and teams keep bending over. Eventually teams are going to start saying 'no' when one player equates to 30+ percent of their total cap. It's not advantageous at that point to keep that one player.
They may have been between a rock and a hard place, but i think this will prove to be a terrible deal.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:05 am |
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What could they do? Flacco just killed it in the Super Bowl. Just unlucky timing for them.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:23 am |
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He could very well be worth $20 million to that team, its just hard to wrap your head around him being the highest paid player ever.
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Post subject: Re: Flacco Highest paid in NFL Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:37 am |
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Decimation wrote: Well deserved. Flacco is a great quarterback and is a huge winner. Best player in the league? I would of franchised him for 16 million, prove that you're elite with a bulls eye on your back.
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