Cactus Jack wrote:hermes wrote:the qb salary market is messed up
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/player/_/year/2024/position/qb/sort/contract_average
why aren't we paying average qb's average money? drops off a cliff once you get to baker mayfield
Because teams are foolish. Guys like Dak should not be making more than twice as much as Geno on average.
Ya the QB market is in the bubble phase and sooner rather than later its going to burst. There is practically no middle class for the QB market right now.
Baker and Geno are kind of the rare exception because they were both viewed as busts, but both were viewed as guys with potential. So they got this kind of the middle ground prove it/long term(ish) deals. And a good chance Sam Darnold joins this group as well.
But either than that, its really just the next group of QBs that have shown something end up being the next group of the highest paid QBs. I mean 4 of the top 5 highest paid QBs right now are Dak, Lawrence, Love and Tua.
While in all honesty there are probably 4-5 QBs that deserve that big time money. Mahones, Allen, Burrow, and Lamar (I can see the argument for Herbert). But thats about it. You give guys like Shanahan, McVay, O'Connell, Johnson, Payton solid QBs. And they can turn them into these borderline stars.
Outside of that group of 4-5 guys. There should be a big drop off from the 55+ per year to a group of guys making that 25-30 per year range. That is your Dak, Geno, Baker, Kyler, Hurts, Purdy, Darnold (after this year), and probably a couple other ones. Then you should have tested older vets and young guys.
And this is why I wont be shocked if Minny lets Darnold walk and if SF lets Purdy walk. These teams can save their money on the QB spot, load it up to the rest of the roster. Then trust their offensive guru coaches to coach up solid QB talent to be top 10ish QBs for cheap.
