So here’s the rebuttal to that, if we don’t pay Lamar, the other option is scrap it all and rebuild and hope we find a franchise qb, and that is never a given, the browns took baker mayfield first overall and he ain’t about shit, and Sam darnold was considered by many the superior prospect but he’s been horrible. Franchise qbs don’t just grow on trees, neither do strong rosters.
we have a qb that has never been seen before and will likely never be seen again, there will never be another Lamar Jackson, he is quite literally the first and possibly only of his kind, and he’s a raven, and I can’t entertain the thought for even half a second that we do anything but secure him until his wheels fall off. Cap be damned, you keep a player like that on your team.
that's the thing - im all for responsible pragmatism but we've got a legit MVP winning player on this team for the first time in franchise history - how could we ever possibly not see this through...
you 100% have to see this through to the end - and if that's in a decade+ then great... and if it happens to be that the wheels fall off and we end up stuck for a little bit then... that's fine because that's just the nature of the thing
and especially when you see continued improvement and elite traits
at that point the question becomes... if lamar's not good enough to deserve it then what sort of talent possibly could/would be other than mahomes
nobody seems to have any issues paying mahomes or allen or dak or watson and my guess is that no one will put up a fight when it comes around to being kyler or herbert or burrow
6 of the 8 divisions of the NFL right now are being led by teams with the cream of the crop at QB, the only 2 that aren't are the AFC South where there isnt an elite qb in the division and the AFC East because the Patriots are the Patriots
the next 3 seeds in the AFC all have those young high quality QBs too - Allen, Herbert and Burrow
and the NFC wildcard race is a mess right now partly because there's not so many young QBs coming through in that conference
when you find a QB like this - you hold on for dear life until you can't anymore
only recent team i can think of that has given up a potential franchise QB is the eagles - and idk but I think Wentz is already proving them wrong for that - that being said they might have 3 1st round picks in the 2022 nfl draft so maybe they wont be that worried lol