jenkins.math wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:16 pm
Phaded wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:50 pm
Wow.
I am literally at a loss of words, the lack of comprehension is hilarious.
Do you even realize how uncommon it is for a quarterback to be paid 13% or more of the salary of their team?
(HINT: It is also less than 13% of the league)
BUT NONE OF THEM EVER WIN THE SUPER BOWL!
What a revelation, someone call the NFL teams - we have the secret.
AussieMate wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:50 pm
I like the Eagles team the most from that list, just have a good team all round by not paying those "elite dollars". After that it's more on the coach. Can every team just get Bill for a couple of years.
They were certainly a good team that year, but wow have they ever fallen off of a cliff as well.
The funniest thing is that you seem to agree with my point, but in your attempt to sound more intelligent than you actually are, you just want to argue instead. It's cool. The idiot in the room usually identifies themself. Sheesh, glad we got that out of the way.
So let's go back to original point: Dak and his contract. If you want to build like the Pats, then you pay Dak around 12.5% of the cap, which would be 25 million assuming a 200 million cap hit. Do you pay him 30 million like he is asking? Do you pay him a higher % than Brady since that is your model? A simple yes I pay him or no I don't will work. I'll go ahead and give you my answer if it wasn't clear: no.
I'm not agreeing with your point at all.
I'm saying that the whole premise of "don't pay them 13% or you won't win the Super Bowl" is stupid because there is such a small group of quarterbacks that are paid 13%+ that the whole "quarterbacks who get paid that much don't win the Super Bowl" concept holds no water because of lack of appropriate sample size. So if so little teams even pay their quarterback that much to begin with, the possibility of even winning the Super Bowl drops that much more when only 4 of the 32 teams in the league are doing so. Have I broken that down enough for you yet?
But I guess we can write off half of the teams representing the NFC because they are paying their quarterbacks 13%+ of their total salary cap.
If I am Jerry Jones, yes - I am paying Dak because this is a business. Winning a Super Bowl is nice, but the ultimate goal is to make money. Dak may not be elite, but he's good enough to win with the pieces around him. The odds of winning a Super Bowl are dramatically low, but as long as fans have players they can cheer for, jerseys they want to buy and the team is competitive - I'm turning a profit.