Mr. WEO

I doubt that the Dolphins mind. He's a decent receiver so that's how they are using him.

Tua?

When will the lay people learn you don't touch a players bottle of pink champale in the club?

Bills are not a Job Fair. Every team knows he's available.

At 9 mill to the Bills, its adios, good luck.

We all know the deals are larger, but given the increase in the cap, the % for these huge contract will be in 2024 about what they were 6-7 years ago. The numerator (cap hit) stays the same for each contract, the denominator (cap) increases. It's math... Josh's, Mahomes, etc contracts are what they for several years going forward. You keep using the annual average salary (your "stats"). Your NBA comparison is also pointless as all contracts are fully guaranteed for the entire length of the contract. Bowing out is probably wise.

Good think I didn't mention an over/under then, right?

Average annual salary isn’t that particular years cap hit. It’s the value of the contract divided by the years of its length. The average salary of those top particular contracts will be the same in 3 years yet thecep money will grow significantly in that time frame. We don’t need Nostradamus to project that the cap % of those contracts therefore, has to go down…

lol none of this is my data. Tell that to spotrac. They feel they can and I provided the link. They are pretty good at this...so I have no reason to doubt their numbers. The cap tends to rise 5-6% per year (pandemic year excepted). It's not hard to project for the next 2 years. And the current player contracts are known for the next 2 years. So it's really not hard to see what future years will be like. Also, new broadcast rights will blow it up the cap even further. If you disagree with all of their data and projections...well, I guess you are free to. But doing so isn't really an argument for your position. When the owners all suddenly agree to change how they pay their best QBs, you'll let us know.

Again, per spotrac, no more in 2024 than 2017. So, no.

2013 i didn't have--but it doesn't matter because 2024 shows that the % of cap will go down (no one is at 24 % now), not up. I've said so several times now

Browns did it in consecutive years.

You keep missing the point. If they get what Mahomes got, that number will be well below 20% of the cap by then. Whereas, if they say "I want a max deal of 20%", they will get far more than Mahomes's deal. The spotrac data suggests that the % going to top QBs will in 2024, be very similar to what it was in 2017 (under 20% by the way). Revenue is outpacing QB contracts. What you fear is not actually happening.

Competing to which league survives a whole season.

It's your number. But since you mentioned every agent, if you put a "max contract"% at, say, 20%--every top QB will be asking for this number. That would force QB contracts to be far more than they are "ballooning" to now. Anyway, agents don't determine contract offers, teams do. They make their best offer and the player accepts it or holds out. That's the way it always has worked. Setting a max cap cannot change this. every contract will move to the max and your imaginary problem is made worse, not solved. Again (and again), the revenue stream covers all players costs for every team. This is not a problem for the intelligent FO's.

I've told you it's under 20% from 4 years ago and going forward 3 more years---despite ballooning QB contracts. Put another way, the Chiefs would have to significantly INCREASE Mahomes's salary in 2024 to get to your spending limit of 20%. Josh Allan's agent would also no doubt scream for the Bills to increase his newly signed contract to the "allowable" max of 20% of the cap. Same thing for Dak, etc. So it makes no sense--I don't know how else to tell you. And owners were obviously tired of blowing huge money on roll of the dice 1st round picks. Rookie pay scale has allowed them to free up money for second contracts, which they are clearly happy to pay--and have little reason to be concerned about veteran QB contracts because they know future increases in cap easily cover these contracts. The teams project this when crafting the offer, obviously.

Again, look at 2018 through 2024, the % really isn't going up. Owners do not see this as a problem going forward. They would be crazy to agree to more limits and rules on their spending. This idea makes no sense.

It just means that Colorado is a program well-known to turn a blind eye to bad behavior by members of its coaching staff. Vance Joseph for example.

yup...and it's right here. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/quarterback/. pick a year. over 20% very rare. based on estimated cap for 2023 and 2024, Mahomes's (for instance) drops to the mid-teens... No owner is going to agree to limit how much he can spend on a player, so there's certainly no chance as a group they would decide to. A QB contract is a calculated risk that he and his GM are making and it's part of how the league runs--it's part of the strategy of putting together a team that they all are competing to do under a cap. Even with the massive salaries for a few QBs coming due the next few years, it's still 20% or less. A limit solves no problem.

Caught a lot of short passes, one long one. The rest of the season a non factor.

It's a solution in search a problem. Non-rookie franchise QB will always be the most expensive player on the roster. It rarely crosses 20% of the annual budget, so limiting it at 20% is arbitrary and largely meaningless. It would only make sense if the cap never increased but it always does, so it doesn't make sense.

It's not coordinator role. How many teams have an "assistant HC"?

We are talking about QB salaries being too high/out of control, but they really aren't--especially with a steadily growing cap. Limiting it to 20% of the cap will always affect very few QBs and won't significantly alter these 40-50 million/yr contracts going forward.

When does Lamar "transcend" the playoffs? 1-3 so far. Flacco, in his first 5 season, Ravens went 9-3. No need for this. Only 3 QB salaries for 2022 are over 20% of teams cap and no one is over 24%.