The NFL is a copycat league. Over the last decade, teams have realized that it's VERY hard to sustain a roster when you have a QB on a franchise deal. You ultimately rely on hoping to get lucky with enough young players to win. And you need a franchise QB that can lift up young talent. This is compounded on NFL agents somehow convincing GMs that every new franchise QB deal has to be bigger than the last one. It doesn't matter if they are Patrick Mahomes (where it's a no brainer) or Dak Prescott. The cost of brick is always going up.
There has been at least one Super Bowl team with a QB on a rookie deal for the past decade. So obviously the formula works.
Watching the Niners and Miami, you wonder if you really even need a great QB vs someone that's pretty good. Do you burn that draft capital on a top pick or would it be viable for a GM to invest across the roster, then find a QB to fit? And is there incentive for some QBs (and their agents) to be OK taking a 'middle class' QB deal to be on a team better equipped to win a champtionship. (BTW, the Pats benefitted from Brady always being willing to take a below market deal.)
It just feels more sustainable than burning high draft picks trying to hit on an elite QB or ending up with thin rosters incapable of handling the attrition of the NFL season because you're paying top dollar to a QB who isn't elite...
There has been at least one Super Bowl team with a QB on a rookie deal for the past decade. So obviously the formula works.
Watching the Niners and Miami, you wonder if you really even need a great QB vs someone that's pretty good. Do you burn that draft capital on a top pick or would it be viable for a GM to invest across the roster, then find a QB to fit? And is there incentive for some QBs (and their agents) to be OK taking a 'middle class' QB deal to be on a team better equipped to win a champtionship. (BTW, the Pats benefitted from Brady always being willing to take a below market deal.)
It just feels more sustainable than burning high draft picks trying to hit on an elite QB or ending up with thin rosters incapable of handling the attrition of the NFL season because you're paying top dollar to a QB who isn't elite...
