(01-07-2019, 11:21 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(01-07-2019, 10:46 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I honestly believe he's gonna want closer to $100 million. I didn't say he'd want the highest QB contract, but I definitely believe he will want starting QB money and there is no way I would give that kind of contract to a Cornerback or any other non-QB position. There is a salary cap and we're already butting up against it. If we sign him to that, we're gonna have to start cutting a lot of other players. What good does that do?

So you add another year and make it 6 years $95m and be done with it. The market value is already set...

You'd honestly rather pay Andy Dalton/Alex Smith type QBs $100m+ over 4 years to be an average at best QB, over paying a truly Elite, top 3 CB $80-95m over 5-6 years?

No. I want to draft Haskins and I believe he's gonna be special. When he does reach that level, I wanna be able to pay him. I also wanna have money to pay other players on the team. Football is a team sport. If you don't have an elite QB (which we currently don't have,) you don't pay a non-QB that kind of money and expect to keep any kind of good players around him. I'd rather have a team full of good players that I can afford to keep, rather than a couple of elite stars and a bunch of scrubs, because I'm pushed so far against the cap. That kind of strategy only works in the NBA.

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