Interesting insight on the salary cap and QB salaries

Greylock wrote:

Salaries are getting out of control.  No longer is it related to what they do on the field to help their team win, it has become a race to be the highest paid player at their position.  They sign a multi-year deal and soon somebody passes them up on the wage scale and all of of sudden it's either trade me to some team that respects me and will make me the highest paid at my position or hold out until they pay me.

Don't blame the players. The NFL has never been more popular. TV contract $$$$ is off the chart. Tickets have never been more expensive. Big, beautiful NFL stadiums are being built partly on tax payers backs. These NFL teams are worth billions of dollars, owned by billionaires. And all of this is easily visible on the Internet (TV contract dollars, etc.) And QBs are the engines that power the money machine. Why shouldn't they get paid?

Just to show how popular NFL QBs are: who hasn't seen a pic of Joe Burrow's new haircut and dye job? LMAO. Its the talk of the Internet the last few days. These guys are rock stars.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tagovailoa-contract-dolphins-qb-reach-four-year-212-4-million-extension-with-167-million-guaranteed/

This is the way of the NFL world. Tua deserves this? Its what the market rates. Its not a debate.
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StickierBuns wrote:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tagovailoa-contract-dolphins-qb-reach-four-year-212-4-million-extension-with-167-million-guaranteed/

This is the way of the NFL world. Tua deserves this? Its what the market rates. Its not a debate, its just a fan discussion.

medaille wrote:

Not disagreeing, but the “market” isn’t setting these rates most of the time.  Very few of these guys are hitting the open market where multiple teams get to compete and set a value for them.  This is the price of not having any competition and a shortage of semi-quality QBs league-wide at the most important position in the sports.  I would imagine that if a team had no other option and the player was available on the free market, the price would go up.  I would imagine if the team had a second pretty good option waiting in the wings, the first player would take less rather than waiting it out another year to try free agency.

But that isn't the NFL game. You are projecting something that isn't going to happen. The QB market is most definitely setting the rate, 100%. Open market?? Who lets that happen with half a brain? Not in Corporate America, not in any other aspect, this is sports. There's a Draft. There's a lock step slotting grade for picks. When you have contracts, you have agents, you have risk assessments. Free market? LMAO. I think the last time a close to free market activity happened in the NFL, it was Kirk Cousins. And he got the first guaranteed contract. And then the wheels came off moving forward. A good option 'in the wings'? That hasn't happened since Joe Montana and Steve Young. JMO. Its all interesting nonetheless.

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Jordan Love is now the highest paid NFL quarterback. It’s a 4 year/ $220M contract, with also $155M in new full guarantees, per sources.