QB Brock Purdy, SF (1 Viewer)

[ICON211]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

 

[ICON211]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Are you in favor of a totally free market so teams, when they are within the cap, can pay whatever they want?

Teams can already pay these QBs whatever they want so long as they conform to the cap. I'm not sure I understand the question.

 

[Zeppelin]

I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc.

Then you'd get QBs like Russell Wilson, Gardner Minshew, Mason Rudolph, and Joe Flacco.

Good luck with that.

 

[taylormeetstheismann]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Are you in favor of a totally free market so teams, when they are within the cap, can pay whatever they want?

Teams can already pay these QBs whatever they want so long as they conform to the cap. I'm not sure I understand the question.

Are you in favor…?

 

[Todem]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Dolphins with Tua.

Unmitigated disaster. Had completed just one full season in his career.

One.

Let that sink in. 55MM a year guy? GTFOH.

Purdy on the other hand has proven he is a leader, a QB that can lead a team all the way to the Super Bowl.

Total gamer. Very happy for him. He deserved it and earned it unlike a few others who have done jack:

Tua
Daniels
Lawrence

All come to mind as WTF contracts in my mind.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

 

[Snotbubbles]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

It all depends on how you structure the contract. The Eagles have structured Jalen Hurts contract so he's at 7.5% of the cap in 2025, 10.8% in 2026, and 13.5% in 2027. But then you have other teams like Dallas, who have Dak Prescott structured entirely different, he's at 16.5% in 2025, 25.1% in 2026, and 22% in 2027. The 49ers could structure this contract so that Purdy is never really a super high percentage of cap.

 

[Todem]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take his name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

The only time I care is when I see dumb contracts for guys who are clearly not worth it.

“Well thats the market”

For mediocrity? That I have a problem with.

Dumb decisions.

Let those guys walk…let another idiot pay 55MM to Tua lol.

Suckers.

 

[Snotbubbles]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take his name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

The only time I care is when I see dumb contracts for guys who are clearly not worth it.

“Well thats the market”

For mediocrity? That I have a problem with.

Dumb decisions.

Let those guys walk…let another idiot pay 55MM to Tua lol.

Suckers.

I've seen Trevor Lawrence name on here quite a bit. But he's only 5.7% of the cap in 2025, 8.1% in 2026, 11.3% in 2027, somewhere in the 12-13% in 2028 and then you can cut him in 2029 for $7M in dead money. Not really a big deal. Agents throw around big AAVs and guarantees, but a lot of these deals aren't really prohibitive to the teams cap if they structure it the correct way.

 

[ICON211]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

 

[ICON211]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Are you in favor of a totally free market so teams, when they are within the cap, can pay whatever they want?

Teams can already pay these QBs whatever they want so long as they conform to the cap. I'm not sure I understand the question.

Are you in favor…?

Yes I am in favor. I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to I'm saying I wouldn't pay average to a bit above average QBs a large percentage of my cap.

 

[Kiddnets]

Im pretty high on Purdy - think he will be good value. He was 14th in my main league with an offense that was crushed with injuries.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

The cap numbers are going to rise even faster when there is a new TV deal in 2028-ish. Jeffrey Lurie, whose background is the entertainment industry, knows this better than anyone, and the Eagles are already taking this into account in the deals that they structure.

 

[Wingnut]

Purdys cap number for 2025 is about $8.5 million.

In terms of surface-level average per year (APY), Purdy’s contract comes out to $53 million. That ranks No. 7 among NFL quarterbacks, tied with the Detroit Lions’ Jared Goff. The total over the first three years just edges out Goff’s total over the same span, $165 million.

Purdy has $100 million fully guaranteed at signing, but there’s a rolling structure on the $181 million guarantee, meaning he’s virtually guaranteed to earn most — if not all — of that money. That would effectively rank his deal at No. 2 among quarterbacks in fully guaranteed money. Only the contract between the Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson, worth $230 million fully guaranteed, has a higher number. The recent agreement between the Buffalo Bills and their MVP quarterback Josh Allen features $147 million in fully guaranteed money at signing.

Brock Purdy, 49ers agree to massive contract extension

Brock Purdy and the 49ers have their megadeal. The quarterback has reportedly agreed to a five-year, $265 million extension.

sfstandard.com

 

[JoeJoe88]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Suggesting that Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones and Tua is wild.

 

[Todem]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Suggesting that Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones and Tua is wild.

Yeah that’s crazy.

Purdy has played at a top 10 level. Come on.

 

[Tau837]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

 

[Faust]

Brock Purdy's new contract comes with expectation to win

 

[ICON211]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

I agree he has been clearly better than Jones and Lawrence, but I also think he is nowhere near the true elite QBs. Maybe I'm wrong. We will see since they will not be able to put as much around him in the coming years with his bigger deal. They already traded Deebo in preparation for his new deal. He's a very good QB that is now getting elite QB money.

 

[massraider]

These deals should be judged by the cap numbers over each year of the deal, rather than the headline yearly average everyone quotes.

Trevor Lawrence is not a great QB. Not worth 275 million over 5 years. Not worth 55M per year. His cap numbers over the first 4 years of his deal are:
15M
17M
24M
35M
He's worth those numbers.

Year 5, his cap number year 5 is 78M.
So, in 2029, Jags need to make a decision.

The 55M was a number for the media, and for Lawrence's agent to look good.

Same with Tua, and I'm sure it'll be the same with Purdy.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Purdys cap number for 2025 is about $8.5 million.

In terms of surface-level average per year (APY), Purdy’s contract comes out to $53 million. That ranks No. 7 among NFL quarterbacks, tied with the Detroit Lions’ Jared Goff. The total over the first three years just edges out Goff’s total over the same span, $165 million.

Purdy has $100 million fully guaranteed at signing, but there’s a rolling structure on the $181 million guarantee, meaning he’s virtually guaranteed to earn most — if not all — of that money. That would effectively rank his deal at No. 2 among quarterbacks in fully guaranteed money. Only the contract between the Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson, worth $230 million fully guaranteed, has a higher number. The recent agreement between the Buffalo Bills and their MVP quarterback Josh Allen features $147 million in fully guaranteed money at signing.

Brock Purdy, 49ers agree to massive contract extension

Brock Purdy and the 49ers have their megadeal. The quarterback has reportedly agreed to a five-year, $265 million extension.

sfstandard.com

I would like to point out that most of the posts are people that feel nothing but joy for Brock Purdy, I think that is a testament to his leadership and accomplishments as Mr Irrelevant
San Fran hasn't hoisted the trophy with him yet, but I think if they continue to build around him and allow him to make plays to other playmakers and use a "CEO" mentality
Look the kid can throw the GD football, everyone can see that and last season everyone went down around him and he was left holding the bag
I think he will grow from that experience and it still might take a couple seasons but the Niners did the right thing in extending him.
SF fans should be thrilled that this is not a distraction entering the season

All reports were the sides were miles apart and then suddenly...that's because the Niners are well run
I'd rather have a team that at least has a shot and the Niners are always a threat for a deep run.
Yeah 6-11 last season, not every season can be a winning season and injuries crippled them last year, that's widely accepted
Even with a pretty ho hum off season, think the Niners bounce back and at least compete for the Playoffs

 

[Ministry of Pain]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

I appreciate the clarification
I felt the same way about Russ Wilson and now I'm doing the heavy lifting for you
I understand your POV, disagree with the names you threw down, I think Purdy is better than that.
Can he will a team on his own, not sure he has to in San Fran, they don't want him throwing 40x a game, they want to run and control the clock and wear teams down

Montana was a CEO, yes or no? He did not have a rocket arm but he had that CEO mentality that Troy Aikman had and I can keep listing QBs that didn't have the strongest arms
What they did have was incredible leadership and a willingness to do whatever is necessary to put their teams in the best position to win a football game
Ego is in check, it's about the team and not their personal glory
I find it refreshing even though Joe Montana broke my heart in Super Bowl XiX

One more thing to the larger audience
You must appreciate when folks have a unique POV like this one. (And he's not alone but he spoke his mind)
It created a lot more posts and we've had some spirited debate, it's what makes this place great
Cheers!

-cool avatar

 

[Todem]

These deals should be judged by the cap numbers over each year of the deal, rather than the headline yearly average everyone quotes.

Trevor Lawrence is not a great QB. Not worth 275 million over 5 years. Not worth 55M per year. His cap numbers over the first 4 years of his deal are:
15M
17M
24M
35M
He's worth those numbers.

Year 5, his cap number year 5 is 78M.
So, in 2029, Jags need to make a decision.

The 55M was a number for the media, and for Lawrence's agent to look good.

Same with Tua, and I'm sure it'll be the same with Purdy.

Good points…..Tua will be released before training camp 2026…..the cap hit won’t be horrible.

 

[ICON211]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

 

[thecatch]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

I agree he has been clearly better than Jones and Lawrence, but I also think he is nowhere near the true elite QBs. Maybe I'm wrong. We will see since they will not be able to put as much around him in the coming years with his bigger deal. They already traded Deebo in preparation for his new deal. He's a very good QB that is now getting elite QB money.

He's not getting elite QB money if he's making as much or less than Lawrence, Goff, Tua, etc.

 

[Zeppelin]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

 

[Ministry of Pain]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

I agree he has been clearly better than Jones and Lawrence, but I also think he is nowhere near the true elite QBs. Maybe I'm wrong. We will see since they will not be able to put as much around him in the coming years with his bigger deal. They already traded Deebo in preparation for his new deal. He's a very good QB that is now getting elite QB money.

He's not getting elite QB money if he's making as much or less than Lawrence, Goff, Tua, etc.

Just to throw some more seasoning into this gumbo i thought we could use Baker Mayfield as a reference point
QB 4 in FF but that doesn't mean he was the #4 QB in the NFL. It does signal though that he's playing at a pretty high level 2 seasons in a row for the Bucs
And he avg about $33M per year on his current deal thru 2026
Underpaid to some but I bet others feel Baker is paid the right amount of money

 

[Soulfly3]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

I agree he has been clearly better than Jones and Lawrence, but I also think he is nowhere near the true elite QBs. Maybe I'm wrong. We will see since they will not be able to put as much around him in the coming years with his bigger deal. They already traded Deebo in preparation for his new deal. He's a very good QB that is now getting elite QB money.

He's not getting elite QB money if he's making as much or less than Lawrence, Goff, Tua, etc.

Just to throw some more seasoning into this gumbo i thought we could use Baker Mayfield as a reference point
QB 4 in FF but that doesn't mean he was the #4 QB in the NFL. It does signal though that he's playing at a pretty high level 2 seasons in a row for the Bucs
And he avg about $33M per year on his current deal thru 2026
Underpaid to some but I bet others feel Baker is paid the right amount of money

I would take Baker 8 days a week over Purdy.
Bless this man for getting paid, I can't knock it.

 

[thecatch]

The NFL QB salary situation is broken. These guys are getting too big a percentage of the cap. I'm not paying guys like Purdy, Dak, Carr, Trevor Lawrence etc. If there was no salary cap then fine pay them whatever. Giving a guy like Purdy this contract is a good way to descend into mediocrity. I'd only give this kind of contract to the elite guys. Burrow, Allen, Lamar, Mahomes and the like.

Please identify the teams who have refused to pay QBs as good as Purdy and how it went for them in the following years.

This would be interesting, but almost all teams do pay these guys. I think it would be a more interesting exercise to look at teams that had good QBs on rookie deals that then paid them top QB money and how they fared during the rookie contract and then in the years after the big deals. The Giants let Barkley walk in part because they paid Daniel Jones. Probably not a great example because they were bad before and after and Jones was never even that good, but he is a good example of the broken QB market. The Seahawks with Russell Wilson and Cowboys with Dak fit the criteria.

Interesting post ICON, wanted to share something

NFL salary cap was around $60M in the year 2000
In 2011 that number steadily(key word) increased up to $120M, seems reasonable
Again it steadily climbs by about $10M a year and then around 2020/2021 the numbers start to rise faster
What happened? TV revenue increases from many streaming services as well as traditional channels, the NFL started printing money

The cap in 2019 was around $185M and since then the NFL has increased it quite a bit
$208M in '22
$224M in '23
$255M in '24
$279M in '25...where you had a steady increase of about $10M per season over roughly 15-20 years, it's rapidly increasing right now
In 2026 it's likely to approach the $300M mark for the Cap
Unlike Baseball where teams will only spend a fraction of others, in the NFL you cannot do that or else the Bengals would just spend $50M and pocket the rest

Multiply $280M x 32 teams and you have endless amounts of cash to pay QBs
It's not your money, it's the 32 owners of the NFL teams, why do you care what they decide to fork out for player salaries?
Ticket prices, jerseys, streaming services, sure the avg NFL fan is spending more money to watch the games...at home vs spending a lot more money at Hard Rock

-Are the players actually worth the contracts they sign? That's debatable
Why do you resent QBs getting paid? RBs have been relegated to part timers, all the NFL does is hype new arms coming out of college
Look what we just saw on ESPN and Mel Kiper during the draft, they could never take Sanders name off the screen once it was apparent he was not going to be drafted in the 1st

Let's not die on this hill

Did you read my initial post? I don't care what they pay them and I don't resent them getting paid. I just wouldn't pay guys like Purdy, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Tua a big percentage of the cap.

Part of the problem with this tangent of discussion is that you are lumping Purdy in with Jones and Lawrence as if he has not clearly been a better QB than them.

I agree he has been clearly better than Jones and Lawrence, but I also think he is nowhere near the true elite QBs. Maybe I'm wrong. We will see since they will not be able to put as much around him in the coming years with his bigger deal. They already traded Deebo in preparation for his new deal. He's a very good QB that is now getting elite QB money.

He's not getting elite QB money if he's making as much or less than Lawrence, Goff, Tua, etc.

Just to throw some more seasoning into this gumbo i thought we could use Baker Mayfield as a reference point
QB 4 in FF but that doesn't mean he was the #4 QB in the NFL. It does signal though that he's playing at a pretty high level 2 seasons in a row for the Bucs
And he avg about $33M per year on his current deal thru 2026
Underpaid to some but I bet others feel Baker is paid the right amount of money

I would take Baker 8 days a week over Purdy.
Bless this man for getting paid, I can't knock it.

I would not.

 

[ICON211]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

 

[thecatch]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

 

[ICON211]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones. But I also don't see Purdy as a guy that significantly elevates a team, like the true top guys, and now it will be harder for them to put a great team around him. I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

 

[thecatch]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones. But I also don't see Purdy as a guy that significantly elevates a team, like the true top guys, and now it will be harder for them to put a great team around him. I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

If you aren't going to pay any QB other than a top 4 guy, then you are going to win 1-6 games perpetually until the owner gets tired of losing and fires you.

 

[Tau837]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

 

[ICON211]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones. But I also don't see Purdy as a guy that significantly elevates a team, like the true top guys, and now it will be harder for them to put a great team around him. I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

If you aren't going to pay any QB other than a top 4 guy, then you are going to win 1-6 games perpetually until the owner gets tired of losing and fires you.

I just wouldn't give them top of the market, roster altering deals. This whole "well you're up so we have to give you a top of the market deal" is nonsense to me.

 

[ICON211]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

I only bring up Jones as another illustration of how the QB market is out of wack.

As far as a list of QBs near or below Purdy's talent level that recently got big or fairly big deals that come with a QB premium and if the team should regret them or not:
Dak - regret
Tua - regret
Watson - regret
Lawrence- regret
Carr - regret
Hurts - don't regret
Daniel Jones - regret
Goff - don't regret
Cousins - regret
Love - not sure yet
Kyler - regret

 

[Tau837]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones. But I also don't see Purdy as a guy that significantly elevates a team, like the true top guys, and now it will be harder for them to put a great team around him. I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

If you aren't going to pay any QB other than a top 4 guy, then you are going to win 1-6 games perpetually until the owner gets tired of losing and fires you.

I just wouldn't give them top of the market, roster altering deals. This whole "well you're up so we have to give you a top of the market deal" is nonsense to me.

Purdy wasn't going to agree to a contract that was not a close to top of market contract, at least in total value. If SF didn't want to give him that, he would have just played out his rookie contract this season, and then they would have had to franchise him or let him walk to another team that would give him that contract. You seem to be advocating for a middle ground that didn't exist.

 

[Tau837]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

I only bring up Jones as another illustration of how the QB market is out of wack.

As far as a list of QBs near or below Purdy's talent level that recently got big or fairly big deals that come with a QB premium and if the team should regret them or not:
Dak - regret
Tua - regret
Watson - regret
Lawrence- regret
Carr - regret
Hurts - don't regret
Daniel Jones - regret
Goff - don't regret
Cousins - regret
Love - not sure yet
Kyler - regret

I doubt their teams regret the contracts for Dak, Lawrence, Hurts, Goff, or Love. What were their better alternatives?

Yes, Miami probably regrets Tua but more due to health concerns than performance reasons. Not comparable to Purdy.

Watson is very clearly a unique situation. Not comparable to Purdy.

Cousins' issue is age and declining physical ability. Not comparable to Purdy.

So you are left with a small sample size in which the QBs are not as good as Purdy: Carr, Jones, Kyler.

It's a small sample size to begin with, and the players in it are not particularly comparable to Purdy. The closest to him is probably Goff, and you agree that his team doesn't regret his contract.

 

[ICON211]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

I only bring up Jones as another illustration of how the QB market is out of wack.

As far as a list of QBs near or below Purdy's talent level that recently got big or fairly big deals that come with a QB premium and if the team should regret them or not:
Dak - regret
Tua - regret
Watson - regret
Lawrence- regret
Carr - regret
Hurts - don't regret
Daniel Jones - regret
Goff - don't regret
Cousins - regret
Love - not sure yet
Kyler - regret

I doubt their teams regret the contracts for Dak, Lawrence, Hurts, Goff, or Love. What were their better alternatives?

Yes, Miami probably regrets Tua but more due to health concerns than performance reasons. Not comparable to Purdy.

Watson is very clearly a unique situation. Not comparable to Purdy.

Cousins' issue is age and declining physical ability. Not comparable to Purdy.

So you are left with a small sample size in which the QBs are not as good as Purdy: Carr, Jones, Kyler.

It's a small sample size to begin with, and the players in it are not particularly comparable to Purdy. The closest to him is probably Goff, and you agree that his team doesn't regret his contract.

Ok we will agree to disagree. I don't see how they are not comparable. These are all guys in a similar talent level tier to Purdy that got multi-year deals where the team is tied to them for more than one year and got paid a QB premium. If the Niners are a real contender the next four years then I'm wrong and they were right to give him this deal.

 

[JoeJoe88]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

I only bring up Jones as another illustration of how the QB market is out of wack.

As far as a list of QBs near or below Purdy's talent level that recently got big or fairly big deals that come with a QB premium and if the team should regret them or not:
Dak - regret
Tua - regret
Watson - regret
Lawrence- regret
Carr - regret
Hurts - don't regret
Daniel Jones - regret
Goff - don't regret
Cousins - regret
Love - not sure yet
Kyler - regret

I doubt their teams regret the contracts for Dak, Lawrence, Hurts, Goff, or Love. What were their better alternatives?

Yes, Miami probably regrets Tua but more due to health concerns than performance reasons. Not comparable to Purdy.

Watson is very clearly a unique situation. Not comparable to Purdy.

Cousins' issue is age and declining physical ability. Not comparable to Purdy.

So you are left with a small sample size in which the QBs are not as good as Purdy: Carr, Jones, Kyler.

It's a small sample size to begin with, and the players in it are not particularly comparable to Purdy. The closest to him is probably Goff, and you agree that his team doesn't regret his contract.

Ok we will agree to disagree. I don't see how they are not comparable. These are all guys in a similar talent level tier to Purdy that got multi-year deals where the team is tied to them for more than one year and got paid a QB premium. If the Niners are a real contender the next four years then I'm wrong and they were right to give him this deal.

You keep acting like if they don’t pay these guys that are already there, franchise QB’s just grown on trees and they can just replace them on a whim. That’s not how the NFL works.

 

[ICON211]

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones.

Given you seemingly recognize that Purdy is a lot better than Jones, why don't you stop bringing Jones up? He is irrelevant to this discussion.

I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

Well, not many players have gotten deals like Purdy got. So it should be a short list. You should list all of them so we can see if your assertion is true, that "more often than not" the teams regretted the deals. (You can leave Jones out since you have already agreed he isn't a good comp.)

I only bring up Jones as another illustration of how the QB market is out of wack.

As far as a list of QBs near or below Purdy's talent level that recently got big or fairly big deals that come with a QB premium and if the team should regret them or not:
Dak - regret
Tua - regret
Watson - regret
Lawrence- regret
Carr - regret
Hurts - don't regret
Daniel Jones - regret
Goff - don't regret
Cousins - regret
Love - not sure yet
Kyler - regret

I doubt their teams regret the contracts for Dak, Lawrence, Hurts, Goff, or Love. What were their better alternatives?

Yes, Miami probably regrets Tua but more due to health concerns than performance reasons. Not comparable to Purdy.

Watson is very clearly a unique situation. Not comparable to Purdy.

Cousins' issue is age and declining physical ability. Not comparable to Purdy.

So you are left with a small sample size in which the QBs are not as good as Purdy: Carr, Jones, Kyler.

It's a small sample size to begin with, and the players in it are not particularly comparable to Purdy. The closest to him is probably Goff, and you agree that his team doesn't regret his contract.

Ok we will agree to disagree. I don't see how they are not comparable. These are all guys in a similar talent level tier to Purdy that got multi-year deals where the team is tied to them for more than one year and got paid a QB premium. If the Niners are a real contender the next four years then I'm wrong and they were right to give him this deal.

You keep acting like if they don’t pay these guys that are already there, franchise QB’s just grown on trees and they can just replace them on a whim. That’s not how the NFL works.

No I said it does not come without risk and it could get you fired. I just think paying these guys that are merely good is more often a path to mediocrity.

 

[thecatch]

In one of the articles posted in here it said his deal basically has $181M in guaranteed money, second highest to Deshaun Watson. If that's the case there has to be some decent sized cap hits somewhere along the length of the contract I would think. That makes it harder to put the level of talent around him that he currently has. He's likely going to have to be more than just a CEO type QB and be one of the main reasons they win. Maybe he can be that and they clearly must think that to give him this deal.

So what would your plan be at QB if you don't sign Purdy?

First, I make Purdy what I consider to be a reasonable offer that would allow the team to keep the level of talent around him that he needs. They have already traded Deebo, probably at least in part in preparation for Purdy's big new contract. If he wants out I consider exploring a trade. If he ends up leaving then explore fixes that won't impact my cap for 2-4 years while trying to find a QB that is worth this level of contract that impacts the rest of the roster. It's certainly risky and it may get you fired if it goes really bad. But if you sign him to a big deal at the expense of the rest of the roster and you descend into mediocrity or worse you also may get fired. I just don't like this idea that, if a QB is merely good or has potential, just because his rookie deal is up you have to sign him no matter the cost. And again, I do not begrudge these guys getting paid. Purdy seems like a good guy so good for him. This is a discussion based in that the NFL has a salary cap and these contracts have ramifications.

This route leads to starting Jameis Winston/Russell Wilson/Justin Fields, or trading a 3rd round pick and paying $35m to pay a guy like Geno Smith, while you flail around in the draft indefinitely looking for a guy who is better than Purdy. But the GM does get to live with the knowledge that he didn't pay Purdy $15 million more than he thought Purdy was worth, I guess?

Well the other route can also lead you to signing Daniel Jones for 4-160 with $81M guaranteed, locking yourself into him for two years with dead cap hits after. And no I am not saying Purdy is on the same level as Daniel Jones. But I also don't see Purdy as a guy that significantly elevates a team, like the true top guys, and now it will be harder for them to put a great team around him. I feel like more often than not teams regret giving a guy of Purdy's caliber a deal like he got. I see the Niners as a middling team for the next few years.

If you aren't going to pay any QB other than a top 4 guy, then you are going to win 1-6 games perpetually until the owner gets tired of losing and fires you.

I just wouldn't give them top of the market, roster altering deals.

What does that even mean? You've been unable to articulate a reasonable comprehensible alternative approach in this thread so far.

 

[Wingnut]

As part of his five-year, $265-million extension, 49ers QB Brock Purdy received a full no-trade clause for the duration of the deal, sources tell The Insiders.

Purdy gets financial security and control over his future in a deal that will be finalized and official soon.

https://x.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1924280099769036814?t=Alvoe-LCiSp-uoE9-Cg0sA&s=19

 

[Harjiran]

For his career, Brock Purdy has completed 67.5% of his passes for 64 TDs against 27 INTs for a passer rating of 104.9. He led his team to the Super Bowl two years ago. He might not be an elite athlete with major draft capital but you can't argue with the results he has achieved on the football field. I think Purdy got paid what he is worth in today's NFL and he deserves every penny. And I'd imagine that the Niners are happy with their investment, especially after whiffing on Trey Lance, Jimmy G, etc.

 

[dipandglide]

This is a great story. I was way off assuming that Lance would be the guy. Purdy jumped in and took over with his play and leadership. He comes across as a winner and has a bright future.

 

[Ray_T]

Fair deal. $181 guaranteed seems about right.

honestly, I looked. unless I mis read this would make him the 8th highest paid QB in the NFL. where the difference between #6 and #10 is about 1M.

while I think it is insane that any one player is worth this much cash, in the context of what the salaries are for the position, hes where he needs to be. and not all of the contract is guaranteed. so if he doesnt perform the team has an easy out. (relatively)

so I think the contract is good for both sides.

 

[Faust]

49ers had no choice but to pay up for Brock Purdy despite debates about his ability

 

[Faust]

Ross Tucker Podcast
“When people see a quarterback execute at a high level, which Purdy has done for most of his three years they assume that it's the system…”

“Steve Young said that it is so hard to do that…the greatest compliment that he could ever get from anybody is that he makes it look easy…”

@GregCosell on people calling Brock Purdy a system QB:

https://x.com/rosstuckerpod/status/1925544678637936730?s=61

“When people talk about quarterbacks they talk about physical traits… They don't talk about what the ability to understand the game pre-snap, throw with timing and anticipation, etc.”

“These are things that Brock Purdy is VERY, very good at.”

@GregCosell breaks down the 49ers QB after his new contract:

https://x.com/rosstuckerpod/status/1925178835034607969?s=61