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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 718996">Uh, yeah, he has been woefully underpaid relative to his peers, few that there are.$196 mil, which I'd assume includes his last signing bonus, for 16 years as a Pro Bowl and better QB gets you $12.25 mil per year.  That also gets you to $197 mil for 17 seasons including 2017, or $11.6 mil per year.  It's been a long, long time since elite QBs were paid that money, and many, many years since they've been paid a lot more than that.  The Packers were going to pay Brett Favre, what? $10-12? mil, to sit on the bench 9 years ago.  And he wanted more to be the starter?You mentioned $31 mil for the last 3 years of the contract.  And that doesn't make my point?  It was $1 mil last season, so that gets you $32 mil over the most recent 4 years.  The last signing bonus was in 2016 for $28 mil for the 2018-2019 two year extension.  The $28 mil plus the $1 mil in salary for 2016 and $1 mil in 2017 gets you to a stupid cheap deal.   And the cap numbers for 2018 and 2019 are $22 mil in each year, with no dead cap, which is cheap if he remains an elite QB.  In fact, there is a substantial cap savings in each year if he falls apart.This is somewhat instructive.  Brady never got the whomping signing bonus.  There were signing bonuses of more modest amounts very regularly along the way to go with extentions and renegotiations.  A pay as you go approach, more or less.</blockquote>

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