Paying quarterbacks big can make winning in the NFL hard

[Rekkapryde]

Bruh, Kaep played in the pocket the season before last and had his best season. When folk tell me "he's been figured out" it shows that they haven't watched. Harbs rarely let Kaep take off in the regular season.

Yup, we were crying that he shoulda ran MORE last season.

 

[triplehate]

Gotta win when their underpaid. Once they start caking just hope shyt breaks right in the playoffs because that depth is gonna be

 

[Trip]

this is why the league is great....you can't pay everyone

 

[Remote]

They are paying quarterbacks more because the NFL made several rule changes that opens up the offense and has quarterbacks airing it out, putting up wild numbers and they look better and more valuable than they really are.

Who really thinks Joe Flacco deserves that contract? I bet Steve DeBerg could come out of retirement tomorrow and lead Baltimore to a 9 win season.

The elite of the game, Rodgers, Brady...maybe they deserve that money.

But that's it.

Side note: isn't Suh making like 20 million from Miami this year? I wonder how much of the payroll he is taking up.

 

[Wiirdo]

They are paying quarterbacks more because the NFL made several rule changes that opens up the offense and has quarterbacks airing it out, putting up wild numbers and they look better and more valuable than they really are.

Who really thinks Joe Flacco deserves that contract? I bet Steve DeBerg could come out of retirement tomorrow and lead Baltimore to a 9 win season.

The elite of the game, Rodgers, Brady...maybe they deserve that money.

But that's it.

Side note: isn't Suh making like 20 million from Miami this year? I wonder how much of the payroll he is taking up.

Flacco has possibly the GOAT playoff run ever on his resume

 

[Remote]

Flacco has possibly the GOAT playoff run ever on his resume

You might be able to dikk a bytch down like a champ but if you never get a date to begin with.....

 

[Flash Thunderton]

Joe Flacco gettin all the money and the Ravens winning another Super Bowl soon




Get a better GM

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/7/6/8900803/nfl-quarterbacks-contracts-salary-cap
Finding a good quarterback isn't easy in the NFL and keeping a good quarterback is expensive. Many teams are faced with no choice but to open up the pocketbooks in a big way to keep an above-average quarterback from escaping in free agency, but paying so much can make building a winning team difficult.

In the last 20 seasons, only four teams won the Super Bowl with a quarterback eating up more than 10 percent of the team's salary cap. Steve Young owns the record for biggest percentage of a team's cap space for a Super Bowl winner when he received 13.1 of the pay for the San Francisco 49ers in 1994.

Yet, when the 2015 season begins there are 13 teams scheduled to pay their starter more than 10 percent of the $143.28 million salary cap set in March. That number could go up soon, too, if Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks receives the big payday that he's hoping for.

When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl in 2013, the team was aided by the fact that it was able to build a championship-level team while its rookie quarterback received just 0.56 percent of the team's salary cap.

With training camp and quarterback competitions it's tough to know, for sure, who the starting quarterback will be for some teams. With that, it's still unclear how big of a percentage of the cap will be dedicated to the starter for those teams. However, here's a look at the percentage of cap space dedicated to the highest-paid quarterback on each team:

Nobody is eating up space like Drew Brees, though. Nearly a fifth of the salary cap for the Saints will be dedicated to the team's nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback, which is a bad formula, historically. However, there isn't much alternative for New Orleans, which has to cling to Brees if the team hopes to have any chance at a good year in 2015.

The rising salary cap has afforded teams more luxury to dedicate bigger contracts to quarterbacks without crippling the rest of the team. That means teams like the Carolina Panthers and Miami Dolphins won't be hampered too badly by huge deals given to Cam Newton and Ryan Tannehill, respectively, which will both balloon to register cap hits of more than $20 million in 2017.

Still, history has shown that teams not anchored by a big contract at quarterback are better positioned to win the Super Bowl. Yet it's the Green Bay Packers, with Aaron Rodgers accounting for 12.74 percent of the team's salary cap, who enter the 2015 season with the best odds to take home the Lombardi Trophy.

Rodgers seems worth it, though. There's plenty of justification for paying the NFL's reigning MVP in a big way. But when the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals are backed into a corner and forced to pay middle-of-the-road players like Colin Kaepernick and Andy Dalton, who has a base salary set to increase over the next five years, things haven't worked out as well.

Kaepernick has a 25-14 record as a starter, but his passer rating has steadily declined since taking over as a starter in 2012, and couldn't lead San Francisco to the postseason in 2014. Dalton has made the playoffs in each of his four seasons as starter, but has yet to secure a win and has a 57.8 passer rating in the four postseason defeats.

Paying quarterbacks in a big way certainly isn't a death sentence for teams like the Packers, but the difficulty to find a passer who can win games is handcuffing some teams into contracts that make a Super Bowl winning formula hard to find.

this whole article is dumb.. cause it's so simple that it could have been said in two sentences with zero facts


team a has a qb rated a 99.. but he's a rookie so he only gets 500k a year

team b has a qb rated a 99.. but he's a 10 year vet so he gets 20 million a year


how hard is it to believe, in most cases, the team with more money to pay other players, is the one that wins .. it's not rocket science..


you need a great qb.. hopefully you can catch him early before the world knows it... but the same qbs who are on the books for winning while underpaid, are the same qbs who get big contracts after winning.. so it's kind of a mute point unless you trade away for rookies every 4 years and start over

 

[FTBS]

If you don't pay the QB you not gonna have a QB.

And what does it matter if you ain't doin shyt either way? Paying a decent or even a good QB like he Rodgers, Manning, Brady is gonna do you way more harm than good. Even those guys weren't winning when they got the big deals.

 

[Trip]

And what does it matter if you ain't doin shyt either way? Paying a decent or even a good QB like he Rodgers, Manning, Brady is gonna do you way more harm than good. Even those guys weren't winning when they got the big deals.

lolwut

 

[FTBS]

lolwut

So did you have purpose in quoting me?

 

[Trip]

So did you have purpose in quoting me?

Paying Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers is bad was your point. The Patriots won the Super Bowl last year and Brady was their highest paid player. The lol should have been obvious.

And the Packers and Broncos win plenty.

 

[FTBS]

Paying Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers is bad was your point. The Patriots won the Super Bowl last year and Brady was their highest paid player. The lol should have been obvious.

And the Packers and Broncos win plenty.

So you were trying to say that you didn't properly comprehend my post? Didn't think it was that complex .

 

[JYoung24]

They are paying quarterbacks more because the NFL made several rule changes that opens up the offense and has quarterbacks airing it out, putting up wild numbers and they look better and more valuable than they really are.

Who really thinks Joe Flacco deserves that contract? I bet Steve DeBerg could come out of retirement tomorrow and lead Baltimore to a 9 win season.

The elite of the game, Rodgers, Brady...maybe they deserve that money.

But that's it.

Side note: isn't Suh making like 20 million from Miami this year? I wonder how much of the payroll he is taking up.

Peyton too