Now that Russell Wilson signed a new conract for an average of 35 mil/year, people are trying to guesstimate what Baker Mayfield's second contract will look like.
...I don't want to think about it.
Let me tell you something: Everybody says "you should get as much as you can" as if it's a moral imperative. They turn themselves into pretzels saying Tom Brady didn't really take less money; pointing out that his supermodel wife is richer than he is---as if he could never have afforded to take less money otherwise---it's bizarre...
What planet do you guys live on!?? They play a children's game for a living, and make ten to 100 times as much as you do! He needs a rich wife to SETTLE FOR more than brain surgeons make!?!
Here's the deal: Tom Brady took less money than he could have gouged for so that the Patriots could afford better players, and this is partly why he keeps going to Superbowls (and remains healthy).
Every other quarterback dons a ski-mask and hollers "stick 'em up!!!" and gobbles up over 15% of his team's salary cap, and usually his team never does much after that, as guys like Myles Garrett, Nick Chubb, Callaway, Njoku, Ogunjobi, Randall etc leave in free agency because the team can't AFFORD them anymore!!!
I know blah blah arrogant blahblah cheater (wha-eva) but if a quarterback wants to WIN more than he wants more money than he (or his descendants) can never spend, he takes less.
It's not even a sacrifice, really! When you win Superbowls, people want to pay you multi-millions to make commercials and stuff!
Flacco. Rodgers. Cousins (he just took his cap-hit to a new team). Check out which Quarterbacks (aside from Brady) reached the last five Conference Championships and Superbowls.
How smart is the good-looking, polarizing Baker Mayfield? Is he as smart as Tom Brady? Clearly, he wants to WIN, more than anything else.
Is Baker smart enough to accept a little less money from the Browns so the Browns can retain and acquire other players to help him win, so he can do commercials and make more money anyway on his way to the Hall of Fame?
Odds are against it, but there is a glimmer of hope: Mayfield really is not a sheep. He will ignore the peanut gallery...
Speaking of which, I'm amazed by star linebackers, edge-rushers etc on various teams always saying that their Quarterbacks should "get all they can get"...
...then expressing shock and disappointment when their team "let" them "go" for some inexplicable reason.
Russell Wilson is the highest paid player in the NFL. I can't congratulate him, because he'll probably never reach a Conference Title game again, and has no shot at the Hall of Fame.
You people don't get this: There IS NO moral imperative to gouge for every last penny. That's called GREED, and it's selfish. With due respect for my bro E, it's a union mentality.
In the free market, the smartest people make the most money and accrue the most awards.
Tom Brady took less money from the Patriots than he could have. Rodgers, Flacco...
Check out this list per the Bleacher Report:
In general the old (overpaid) Quarteracks didn't get that far, and the number one QB was Mahomes.
The underpaid Tom Brady won the Superbowl over sophomore Jared Goff.
Drew Brees and the Saints got screwed by the refs in a F I X, so that doesn't count; however, the Rams were extremely talented because Goff didn't gobble up 16-20% of the Rams cap space (yet).
Sure, Lord Insideous has everything to do with the Patriots dynasty, but so does Tom Brady, who is now massively underpaid I mean...is Russell Wison really TWICE as good as he is?
Why isn't Brady raising hell?
...is any of this sinking in yet?
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