(12-19-2017, 05:05 PM)Krayz_Jville_D Wrote: as great as he has played and as happy as I am to see it.. there is absolutely no way in hell im paying him 19 mill a year... that will 100% cap strap us... the reason we have an advantage on other teams to sign all these other good players and lock up our guys is because we arent putting 19 or more mill at the QB position

I'd happily pay him 10 to 12 if he finishes the year strong.. but there's no way in hell I am paying him 19 mill per LMAO

I would absolutely rather draft a rookie QB or sign a stop gap for a fraction of that cost.  This team's defense and running game is good enough to compete, Bortles has been playing awesome but he is not the main reason this team is winning

Firstly, no his 19 mil won't cap strap us.
Ivory is as good as gone.
Lewis likely is gone.
Cap is going up
We still have roll over... just stop with the sky is falling antics about the cap.

He has no incentive to take a discount, and if he's playing this well why would he?


A rookie QB will have his own headaches and growing pains. And from where we'll be drafting we won't be in position to get one that is head and shoulders better than Bortles.
Stop gap? Who? Matt frickin Moore?

Also: YOU aren't paying him... so settle down.

His cap figure for 2018 places him around 16th. (about 11% of our cap) His cash earnings would put him top 5 and that is a lot of money to pay based on essentially 4 or 5 games (plus playoffs TBD) but as I've said before... it's a QB league, you either have one or you don't. If you got one, you pay him. If you don't got one, you pay someone else.

I can not imagine us starting over at QB with the roster as good as it is right now.

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