(09-11-2023, 02:06 PM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote: It is a great problem to have but this team simply has too much talent to retain it all.  The team is already at the edge of the salary cap but lets observe some issues coming in the next season or two.

Trevor is going to get paid 6 figures.  I am guessing in the $25-$60 million dollar a year range.  Huge cap hit

Calvin Ridley looks like he is going to be a star with Trevor.  He is going to be due a monster congtact

Josh Allen: He has not been the dominant force we all expected but yesterday maybe an indication he could become that guy.  He is going to get paid by somebody. A good player regardless!

Tyson Campbell:  I would put him in the top 10 CB's today.  He is going to get a monster contract

Cisco: I like the drink and I like the player.  He is a solid db who is going to get paid by us or somebody else


There are others but Key players are really hard to hand onto, especially after you pay the QB.  This or next year maybe the best time to win due to rookie contracts expiring soon on key players.  Throughts?

As a fan, I just want to make the playoffs for the next 4 to 6 years and be one of the best teams in the NFL like in 1996 up until 2001. (I know we didn’t make the playoffs in 2000 and 2001), but we still had Fred, Jimmy, and Mark.

On the players and coaches side of things, there goal every year is Super Bowl. These boys are getting paid to do a job, and with the business side of things, in a competitive sport of the most elite talent on the planet, their goal every year is Super Bowl. 

There’s no guarantee any of them will be here next season. Injuries happen and it’s a week to week type of business. There’s not 1 player on the team that will tell anyone “We’re trying to get better everyday and hopefully go for a Super Bowl in a couple of years.”

The answer to your question is yes. Teams are in win now mode every week, every season. Teams with rookie QBs too. Hell Rothlisberger won a Super Bowl in his rookie season and the Steelers went 13-1.

Everything else is fan speak. 

It ain’t like Ridley is out there saying let’s go get wins, and somebody like Bigsby says “nah fam, let’s wait a couple of years until I get better.”

The reality is Trevor Lawrence might be here the next 7 years, maybe 10 years or he could not be here after 3 or 4 more years. Players age, production falls of, etc Jimmy Smith waited 5 calendar years to become a full time starter and I’d bet the farm he was in win-now mode every time he stepped on the field.

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