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Wave of the future. Teams are aligning their super bowl windows around rookie quarterback contracts.....
Cousins getting $30m, Case Keenum, even backups like Mike Glennon. Derek Carr prohibiting the Raiders from re-signing Mack. Etc. There are many examples of NFL clubs forced into shelling out big money for average QBs and suffering on the defensive side of the roster.
As long as they're handing it out, then a QB should put his hand out. But I think that well could be drying up in the near future. All those QBs will be pushed out to the XFL, AAFL, FFL, as more and more teams go the rookie QB way.....and....there'll be some kind of new QB salary scale imo to combat the rising prohibitive costs of QBs especially.
Not sure if the Seahawks started that economic trend, they could've. But the methodology of a top D + run game + capable game-managing QB as a formula to win the Lombardi has been around for as long as the Super Bowl has been around.
Someone like Aaron Rodgers is one of the biggest me-first players in the league. He needs a whole OL upgrade, and some key defensive players, but good luck getting him to renegotiate. Carr already showed he doesn't care either not helping to get Mack re-signed.
Every end of season now, I see tweets and discussions where teams are up against the cap due to prohibitive QB cost, and having to finagle cap space, make players renegotiate contracts, otherwise be forced to let go their better players --- on defense!
I reckon there could be a renaissance in salary pay scales. Tho the cap keeps rising, teams are struggling to field good teams with non-rookie QBs, and the standard of NFL games will suffer, which isn't good for the NFL product either.
They've tipped the scale so far that teams figured out they could get away with shit QB's and build up their defenses with the extra money. I guess it's the natural reaction to making the game so easy for the offense. Waiting for the truly innovative coach and player that turns a RB that throws the ball 10+ times a game as the main player of the offense??
That team already exists.....Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
What the Ravens are doing is also bringing back old formations and ideas. Double Wing, Wishbone type stuff. Where there's a lot of motions and pulls, misdirection, as well as zero splits in the OL (no 1 yard gap between the OL) because from the back-end, the D's perspective, it's next to impossible to see who has the ball and what is really happening.
You can pull up some Double Wing youtube videos and see how it works.
If we win the Super Bowl this season, I can see it as a watershed moment yet again, where what's old is new again. Teams looking at loading up the RB depth chart, have about 4 or 5 guys there on the cheap who can tap in and tap out as they tire, also with different running styles (power backs and scat backs), as well as potentially have like a four or five deep QB depth chart, cheap but skilled ball-runners, rotate them in and out as well. Invest top money into the defensive side of the roster, and utilize the old three yards and a cloud of dust approach to winning.
Adam Schefter ✔ @AdamSchefter
There are six starting QBs in 2018 Playoffs who are 25 or younger: Dak Prescott, Jared Goff, Mitchell Trubisky, Deshaun Watson, Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. That’s the most QBs 25 or younger in a single postseason in NFL history, per @EliasSports.
Cousins getting $30m, Case Keenum, even backups like Mike Glennon. Derek Carr prohibiting the Raiders from re-signing Mack. Etc. There are many examples of NFL clubs forced into shelling out big money for average QBs and suffering on the defensive side of the roster.
As long as they're handing it out, then a QB should put his hand out. But I think that well could be drying up in the near future. All those QBs will be pushed out to the XFL, AAFL, FFL, as more and more teams go the rookie QB way.....and....there'll be some kind of new QB salary scale imo to combat the rising prohibitive costs of QBs especially.
Not sure if the Seahawks started that economic trend, they could've. But the methodology of a top D + run game + capable game-managing QB as a formula to win the Lombardi has been around for as long as the Super Bowl has been around.
Someone like Aaron Rodgers is one of the biggest me-first players in the league. He needs a whole OL upgrade, and some key defensive players, but good luck getting him to renegotiate. Carr already showed he doesn't care either not helping to get Mack re-signed.
Every end of season now, I see tweets and discussions where teams are up against the cap due to prohibitive QB cost, and having to finagle cap space, make players renegotiate contracts, otherwise be forced to let go their better players --- on defense!
I reckon there could be a renaissance in salary pay scales. Tho the cap keeps rising, teams are struggling to field good teams with non-rookie QBs, and the standard of NFL games will suffer, which isn't good for the NFL product either.
They've tipped the scale so far that teams figured out they could get away with shit QB's and build up their defenses with the extra money. I guess it's the natural reaction to making the game so easy for the offense. Waiting for the truly innovative coach and player that turns a RB that throws the ball 10+ times a game as the main player of the offense??
That team already exists.....Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson.
What the Ravens are doing is also bringing back old formations and ideas. Double Wing, Wishbone type stuff. Where there's a lot of motions and pulls, misdirection, as well as zero splits in the OL (no 1 yard gap between the OL) because from the back-end, the D's perspective, it's next to impossible to see who has the ball and what is really happening.
You can pull up some Double Wing youtube videos and see how it works.
If we win the Super Bowl this season, I can see it as a watershed moment yet again, where what's old is new again. Teams looking at loading up the RB depth chart, have about 4 or 5 guys there on the cheap who can tap in and tap out as they tire, also with different running styles (power backs and scat backs), as well as potentially have like a four or five deep QB depth chart, cheap but skilled ball-runners, rotate them in and out as well. Invest top money into the defensive side of the roster, and utilize the old three yards and a cloud of dust approach to winning.