Hasselbeck":vm7pu1ov said:
No clue why anyone believes Wilson will give them a "discount" .. that's not how this works. And before anyone chimes in with "But Brady did it!" .. Brady would have never given a discount at age 26.
So yeah.. Wilson will be the highest paid QB of all-time, until Andrew Luck gets his new deal.. then it will be him.. then the next one, and the one after that and on and on.
This. And give it 2-3 years and it will both look like and BE an absolute bargain. Basically pay the players you want to keep and trust your process of drafting and coaching up players in other position groups. Also once you find an elite level quarterback you pay them, heck even if they're average to slightly above (Dalton/Cutler) you pay them, it's a quarterback driven league and it's how it works. For example just look at the teams in the current playoffs...
1. Wilson (Superbowl winner)
2. Rodgers (Superbowl winner)
3. Manning (Superbowl winner)
4. Brady (Superbowl winner)
5. Flacco (Superbowl winner)
6. Luck (top 10 or better quarterback)
7. Romo (top 10 or better quarterback)
8. Newton (well above average quarterback)
5 out of 8 of them have won a Superbowl another 2 are young enough to win multiple Superbowls before their careers are done and the last guy has a better chance of winning a Superbowl in the next 2-3 years then Peyton Manning does. 4 of them are elite by any metric, another just put up the numbers to be considered as such, another 2 may not put up pretty statlines but they win and they especially win in the playoffs.
We've seen the results of having bad or average quarterbacks and sometimes just above average quarterbacks and it usually results in failure and losing.