Joe Flacco - The Highest Paid QB in NFL History

[blazza18]

I'm just glad we've got Vick lined up so cheap...

[Higga]

I bet the Redskins are just giddy to pay RG3 too.

Danny Snyder will have no issues backing up the money truck for RG3. He could end up being a $200 Mil signing...

[Celtics_Champs]

Getting out of hand right now with the money being dished out.

No player is worth that kind of money.

[gswhoops]

If this trend of higher and higher QB salaries continue, I can't help but wonder if landing a truly "elite" QB is going to become kind of a pyrrhic victory.

You get a top guy at the most important position in the game, but you end up paying him so much that you can't put a competitive team around him, and you suffer as a result. It's gonna get harder and harder to keep a quality team together if you're paying one guy ~20% of your available money.

[Icness]

Both Rodgers and Ryan will fly past Flacco as higher paid within the next year. Conceivable that Cam Newton does too if he decides to try and force an early extension.

In the piece I wrote yesterday I made a reference to Flacco being like Gilbert Arenas, playing his best at the best possible time and parlaying it into a contract that everyone would have found ridiculous even a month earlier. Here's hoping for the Ravens their experience works out a little better. At least the NBA had the amnesty clause to buy him out. His cap hits are/were actually lower than Flacco's in the final 3 years.

[Higga]

Both Rodgers and Ryan will fly past Flacco as higher paid within the next year. Conceivable that Cam Newton does too if he decides to try and force an early extension.

In the piece I wrote yesterday I made a reference to Flacco being like Gilbert Arenas, playing his best at the best possible time and parlaying it into a contract that everyone would have found ridiculous even a month earlier. Here's hoping for the Ravens their experience works out a little better. At least the NBA had the amnesty clause to buy him out. His cap hits are/were actually lower than Flacco's in the final 3 years.

Don't think you can really compare the two. Gil got a big money contract even after a devastating knee injury. Flacco just won a Super Bowl and is only hitting his athletic prime.

I do agree that there will be other QBs in the coming years who will get paid just as much if not more than Flacco. I don't know about Rodgers, I think he's already signed a big deal recently, but Ryan definitely and probably Newton as well, and then a few years later you got your Kaepernicks, Wilsons, Lucks, and RG3s.

[JustAwesome]

Is a $200 million contract even possible with the way the current salary cap is structured?

[boateng]

Horrible deal. I can't believe Joe Flucco can potentially be earning $120m

Not worth that and i won't even put him in the top 10 players in the nfl. He won a superbowl and he is a good player but not highest paid player in the nfl good

sad thing is this deal is gonna mess up a lot of teams.

Green bay will have to match that or better that contract when Aaron Rodgers time comes to extend as it will be asinine to have joe flacco earning more than potentially one of the most skilled QB'S ever.

[Higga]

Is a $200 million contract even possible with the way the current salary cap is structured?

Well there was a time when people thought $100 Mil wouldn't be possible.

I'm sure some smart team could figure out a way to structure it so it didn't destroy the team.

[gswhoops]

I wonder if the next CBA could see something akin to a "max" contract added to it.

[Higga]

I wonder if the next CBA could see something akin to a "max" contract added to it.

Doubt it, since NFL contracts aren't guaranteed anyway.

Of Flacco's $100+ Mil, I think only $50 Mil or so is guaranteed.

[JustAwesome]

Well there was a time when people thought $100 Mil wouldn't be possible. I'm sure some smart team could figure out a way to structure it so it didn't destroy the team.

I don't doubt the intelligence of these guys that work for the NFL. However, things become mathematically impossible after a while. Cap space is X. A contract can only reach a certain percentage before it's impossible to build a good supporting cast.

[Icness]

A very smart breakdown by a friend of mine:
http://nflphilosophy.com/breaking-down- ... -contract/

[Pharmcat]

why give flacco so much cash and end up losing all these other players?

[Jake0890]

why give flacco so much cash and end up losing all these other players?

The way it was structured they still have plenty to spend.

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