(01-08-2019, 04:10 AM)Eric1 Wrote:

(01-08-2019, 01:30 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: 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.

Baker Mayfield has a contract of $33m over 4 years, not including the 5th year option.. Do you really think paying Ramsey now, or even next season, is really going to effect whether we're able to pay Haskins a new contract 4+ years from now?

It's not just about paying Haskins or whatever QB we may have in the future. It's about fielding a complete team of good players. You can't pay a non-QB that kind of money and expect to keep good players around him. They're all gonna wanna get paid at some point and if you have two or three players sucking up all the cap money when you need 53 to make a complete team that's a bad idea. If you follow that philosophy, at some point you're going to have to let some very good players walk and replace them with cheap, "bottom of the barrel" guys in starting positions to stay under the cap. The Patriots never overpay. They let their top players walk or trade them when they command too much money and they are one of the most successful franchises in history. The strategy of giving a couple players huge contracts only works in the NBA, because you only have 5 starters and the NBA has max contracts. There is no max contracts in the NFL, so the market keeps going up each time a team decides to overpay.

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