(09-24-2024, 01:36 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-24-2024, 01:04 PM)cland Wrote: "I’ve stated a million times Trevor isn’t elite and I don’t think he will be." ...yet he's paid as if he's top 3.  Again if he puts up top ten numbers this year, it will be different... I'll leave that likelihood up to you.   But if at the end of the season Trevor puts up mediocre stats, you'll have a guy going into his 5th year never having shown that he is a reliable and consistent top 10 QB.  As it pertains to my example HC, Ben Johnson, he chose to stay as an OC with Goff, turning down the Commanders job HC job.  I just don't see how Trevor Lawrence (plus contract) will convince him otherwise.

And he's going to go into his 5th year as a 25 year old QB with a 5th year cap number less than the 5th year on his rookie deal, then the next year he'll be making the cap number of a QB in 2024 while 6 more guys will moved ahead of him on that list. There's nothing wrong with the contract except that the play hasn't been good this year for whatever reason.

I mean that's the whole point. He's making $12M/year MORE than Josh Allen whose deal expires in 2029, you can crunch the numbers as you will, but no matter how you do it Trevor Lawrence is getting overpaid based on his performance to date and he is locked in for the next several years.  If I'm a head coach candidate looking for my first shot (knowing that if I fail, it will likely be my last) I'm taking that fact into account.  I'm not saying that it's impossible to turn Trevor around, just that in comparison to other potential landing spots that it's a big risk.

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