QB_Eagles wrote:El Turco wrote:last stand wrote:What’s going to happen is teams are going to see more benefit in just drafting guys and putting super teams around them
I think when baker mayfield starts getting 40 which will trickle around the league for several QBs I just think long term teams are going to draft a QB or 2 and try to build super teams. I mean would you rather have baker at 40 or a top LB, safety, and WR?
Yeah this is the way I favor. Unless you have quarterback that overcomes holes in your team, which there are maybe 4-5 of those guys, dont pay a quarterback past his rookie deal. Just build a great team and keep plugging it with young guys from the draft or maybe a veteran on a discount. We've seen unless you are Mahomes it is very difficult to win with a quarterback taking huge percentage of your cap.
Teams will have to start doing this in order to get QB salaries down.
There's really no reason Baker Mayfield should be making 1.5 as much as the best pass rushers in the NFL.
In the mid 90s Deion Sanders and Troy Aikman were making the same money per year.
I think it’d be incredibly important for an owners meeting to come to this conclusion and push towards a complete market reset for QBs.
The best and only way to do it is to keep proving that the albatross QB contracts don’t equal winning. Eventually it’ll go the way of the RB and soon the WR. There’s a top 15 WR being drafted 3 times a first round now. Eventually teams will stop paying them since they can draft someone on par but 20 million dollars cheaper.
I think if the nfl can actually figure this out we may see the QB go a similar direction, problem is not enough teams have the infrastructure to actually build good enough teams
Buuut maybe that’s where all the expensive QBs go, to the poorly run franchises. They pay for putting butts in seats, and the good franchises keep drafting and building contenders