Ojb81
Well-Known Member
Congratulations to Russell, and good on the Seahawks for not allowing him to get away.
yeah but thats because Clark doesn't have his deal. Right now the 2020 free agent list looks like this.
Frank Clark
Bobby Wagner
Barkevious Mingo
Jaron Brown
George Fant
Mychal Kendricks
Mike Iupati
Quinton Jefferson
Cassius Marsh
Jarran Reed
Akeem King
Neiko Thorpe
C.J. Prosise
Nick Vannett
Jamie Meder
Nate Orchard
Germain Ifedi
Some of those guys will need to be paid and not cheaply or they will be gone. This is only a list of UFA not the RFA. Hawks have a 5th year option i do believe on Ifedi but i just don't know if they pull the trigger on that. He needs to play better. LOTS better.
Highest contract ever and a $65 million signing bonus. I think he shot the moon!He didnt shoot the moon like people thought he was holding out for.
This is the deal that had to happen. It's better to have the guy that can carry a bad team and struggle to get talent around him than have lots of money and no top flight QB.
He didnt shoot the moon like people thought he was holding out for. His agent said he compromised to stay here and he respected it. It won't be the top deal for long. Someone will beat it next year and it won't be top 5 when it expires.
The idiots hanging on the hot take bait about trades were wrong. He's a hawk for life.
This is the deal that had to happen. It's better to have the guy that can carry a bad team and struggle to get talent around him than have lots of money and no top flight QB.
Maybe true, but it is changing a bit with the rules geared for the offense. The gap between a top QB and an average QB isn't as big as it once was.Exactly this.
If you are given a choice between elite QB and little cap space and roll of the dice and lots of cap space you take the former every single time.
Maybe true, but it is changing a bit with the rules geared for the offense. The gap between a top QB and an average QB isn't as big as it once was.
Just look at the QB ratings from last season. No Brady, Rodgers or Luck in the top 10. I know the QB rating is a bit of a flawed metric, but it has its merit.
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Great quarterbacks do not win Superbowls. Only great teams with very good QBS win Superbowls. You give such a large percentage of your cap dollar to one position you become weak at other positions preventing you from being a great team. Wilson will keep us competitive but we will always fall short in building a team around him that is good enough to win it all. Our window has closed.
Drew Brees was a terrible call away from being in the Super Bowl. Tom Brady has won 2 of the past 3.
IMO, Aaron Rodgers was hampered by a really bad coach and some bad personnel decisions.
Our window truly closes when Wilson leaves/retires.
Yeah definitely don't agree with that.
Our window truly closes when Wilson leaves/retires.
Tim Brady does not make top ten money, he purposely structures his contracts in a manor where his team can afford to have a supporting cast. Only one team with a player in the top ten highest paid players has won the Superbowls in the last 25 years and that was the Giants. Eli Manning was just made the list being ranked tenth in one of their victories. Say what you want, argue your case all you want, but history says it doesn’t happen. You are banking on the exception
There were a lot of chattering heads claiming it would be closer to $40mil yr. Instead it was a pretty standard deal. It will be surpassed next year by the next guy in line. It wasn't unique.Highest contract ever and a $65 million signing bonus. I think he shot the moon!
Rodgers was also hampered by bad injuries in two different seasons that probably killed those years. That first collar bone season they were deadly with him and hot garbage without him.Drew Brees was a terrible call away from being in the Super Bowl. Tom Brady has won 2 of the past 3.
IMO, Aaron Rodgers was hampered by a really bad coach and some bad personnel decisions.
Our window truly closes when Wilson leaves/retires.
Great quarterbacks do not win Superbowls. Only great teams with very good QBS win Superbowls. You give such a large percentage of your cap dollar to one position you become weak at other positions preventing you from being a great team. Wilson will keep us competitive but we will always fall short in building a team around him that is good enough to win it all. Our window has closed.
I think the $65 million signing bonus is a nice concession to the $5 million per year difference. Either way, he is currently the highest paid NFL player ever. He is unique in that currently. But you are right, it'll be surpassed in the next year or 2.There were a lot of chattering heads claiming it would be closer to $40mil yr. Instead it was a pretty standard deal. It will be surpassed next year by the next guy in line. It wasn't unique.