You'll be hard pressed to find a team with a veteran franchise QB making big bucks paired with a $7 mil backup.
We’re throwing #s around to make a point. But you’re taking it too literally to get the point I’m (and many others) are making. You can dance around the 7M # all you want or give us excuses as to why getting a backup QB can’t happen. But you can’t expect to get quality veteran QBs for rookie contract money. They don’t go hand in hand.
You get what you pay for. I’m not going to qualify that statement. because you may follow that previous pattern and show me examples of anomalies to prove that point wrong also.
You negotiate for gosh sakes. You’re letting a # hold you from solving a major problem.
You put a reliable QB on a 3yr/15M deal with 6M guaranteed. We now know this was completely attainable based on Teddy Bridgewaters deal. We certainly know this isn’t a far fetched idea as you implied by trying to disprove it.
You bite the bullet and pay them the 6M year 1 signing bonus (with a 500K bonus any year they start regular season consecutive games and finish .500 or better...and an additional 500K for each playoff game they win). If they play multiple games and win? I’ll gladly pay them $7 if they’re winning! Or $8M if they win the Super Bowl! And then have them for 2 more years at 4.5M salary (option) Otherwise If they don’t see the field? That means #12 played every game. I’m ok with that too. The next year you have an out.. or you pay em 4.5 plus bonus’
This is the point again. There’s options to acquire a solid QB without filing chapter 7 afterwards. Nobody says it has to be exactly 7M in every scenario for every player. That’s just ludicrous. We don’t go into contract negotiations with blinders on in regards to $ amounts. Heck we just wiped $8M off the books in a flick of the wrist with Daniels, so you can’t say “we can’t afford it”, that’s purely subjective at this juncture. We all know there’s a million ways to structure contracts to lessen the hit to our liking.
