(03-15-2022, 11:23 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(03-15-2022, 10:58 PM)Upper Wrote: He also didn't get the big payday after his first 4 seasons, he just signed that deal last year after he proved to be a fringe WR1 for the Rams for years.

If you want to try to compare Woods and Kirk's contracts then Kirk deserved something in the 5/34 deal that Woods got after year 4, plus inflation.

It's already well known that Kirk is getting paid for future possible potential. Woods signed that first contract with the Rams 5 years ago. The salary cap in 2017 was $167m. The cap this year is $208m. Prices have only gone up, up, up.

Other teams were obviously offering a good amount for Kirk as well, or the price wouldn't have been that high. We all know it's overpay, but that's the nature of the game when you've been a losing franchise for the past 15 years. Players aren't going to sign here on discounts. Gonna have to pony up the cash.

WR salaries have definitely gone through the roof the past few seasons, even moreso than most other positions aside from QB.  It's rare that players live up to big contracts like this - expectations are always over the top.  Hopefully Kirk will at least make a good push toward being this valuable to the team.

I read a tweet somewhere that Chark was offered a 1year/7million prove it deal here.  That is like "go away" money considering his potential.  After signing a 1yr/10mil deal with the lions, I find it hard to believe Chark wouldn't have taken a 1yr/12mil deal with no state income tax with the Jags - I believe many here and elsewhere speculated that that number would have been fair.  I'd feel better about this Kirk signing if we had pulled Chark back in with him, especially since it appears DJ wouldn't have been terribly expensive.

Oh well, nothing I can do about it... Hopefully it magically works out.

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