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Can’t buy life insurance policies for dead cap hits, though.

It’s a 10 year extension. He’s already under contract for 2 more seasons. The bonus will likely then be spread out 3-8 seasons from now.

If that’s the case, he’s going to be underpaid in year 2. $42.5 million is fair market value for him today.

How so? He was going to get $40+ million a year on a short term deal. 12 years from now, QBs may well be topping $75 million figuring in roughly 5% inflation.

Talk in KC was around $40mm per year for 5 years. It’s going to be WAY north of that. This isn’t a 10 year contract. From what I’m hearing, it’s a 10 year extension of the two years left in the current deal.

Easily. Likely north of $500 million.

You bring up a good point. It’s pretty astounding how many of America’s “heroes” became famous via being prolific at murder and oppression. What do you make of that?

You sort of suck at math.

You’re so oppressed.

You should go with him.

I love how you’re pretending to be concerned about logistics.

Can’t believe I need to connect these dots for you, but...as you said...slavery was an acceptable practice at one time. Using ‘what was acceptable in the past’ as a barometer for what is acceptable in the present has never worked.

Don’t you know that doing the right thing is a slippery slope to doing the wrong thing? You’re ———> <——— this close to getting it.

How many above average seasons have you had?

Go find yourself a safe space and cry about how you have to share drinking fountains with minorities, you adorable little snowflake.

I’ve never heard someone say “all lives matter” in response to Blue Lives Matter statements. Somehow it’s only a response to Black Lives Matter. I wonder why that is.

The world is just going to get more and more confusing for you every day, old timer. Not sorry. Watching the emotionally frail caterwaul over the fact that society always has and always will continue to evolve and become more liberal is rapidly becoming one of my favorite hobbies now that there are no sports to watch.

You sound like you’re tired of winning.

To date, they are both only starting in the league because of their running ability. Neither of them throw the ball well enough to get by as pure passing QBs. Taylor is much more of a game manager who checks down and protects the ball. Sometimes that works out for him. Sometimes it doesn’t. Allen is much more of a wild card who tends to Chuck the ball deep when things break down and has a tendency to be reckless with the ball. Sometimes that works out for him. Sometimes it doesn’t. Both rely heavily on their running ability to make up for their shortcomings as pocket passers. Both struggle with going through their progressions. (Taylor does it too quickly, Josh does it too slowly) Both have issues recognizing risk/reward situations. (Taylor errs on the side of caution, Josh errs on the side of risk) Whether this makes them similar as QBs is a question of semantics.

The Saints signed Brees as a free agent and gave up zero draft compensation. How can Allen be worth a bag of footballs if Brees wasn’t even worth a seventh round pick? That’s your argument in reverse.

You’re looking at their value with hindsight. Let’s do the opposite. If Tom Brady was only worth a sixth round pick, how can Allen even be worth a seventh? See how dumb that sounds?

Favre’s numbers only very slightly improved. In fact, he became less accurate relative to the rest of the league after his 7th season as a starter. He was top 10 in each of his first 7 seasons and led the league in season 7. He was 20th in the league the next 2 seasons. Brees improved for sure, but he was never inaccurate compared to the rest of the league. During that first stretch, he averaged finishing 7th in the league in completion percentage. Allen has been dead last each of his first 2 seasons. There is simply no comparison. Even going back 30 seasons to cherry pick comparisons, you still came up with one player who went from above average to start his career and stayed at that level (Favre) and a guy who was very accurate to start his career and became extremely accurate (Brees). It is not common for QBs to make huge strides in accuracy relative to the rest of the league. That’s not to say it’s impossible, but if Josh does it, 20 years from now you’ll see every fan of a young, inaccurate QB point to him as the guy who proved it could be done.

I agree, but right now there’s no reason not to have a solid backup. There have never been this many good ones available. Very few teams are likely to go on a tear with a backup the way New Orleans did, but a good team with a solid backup may go 2-2 whereas that same team may go 0-4 with Nate Peterman or Duck Hodges.

There’s plenty of room between being that great and being better than Barkley who is in the conversation of worst backups in the league.

You really don’t know who the Dolphins have behind Fitz? Seems like he was a pretty well known draft pick. And half this board seems to think Newton is no better than Stidham, so there shouldn’t be a huge drop off if Cam goes down, right?