(11-15-2019, 10:48 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(11-15-2019, 10:25 AM)Kane Wrote: Yeah my whole point is on the idea that Foles was handed a big contract, regardless of what is actually paid, and if he can't come in and play at least to the same level as what we got from Minshew he wasn't worth a drop of it and the front office, yet again, blunders up the QB position and salary cap paying the wrong dudes.

I have no doubt Foles comes in and elevates the play of the offense personally. At least slightly.

What I'm saying is that that salary you keep bringing up doesn't mandate he does anything compared to Minshew, it mandates that he come in and be the 18th best paid QB in the league in 2019. 
That's what he is. 

Everyone wants to throw around a contract total he's unlikely to ever see. He's the 18th best paid QB in the league in 2019.   And if you adjust for his bonus and guarantee and spread it over 2019/2020 - he's still 15th on that list.
Basically - I'm saying let's not pretend the Jags threw top tier money at this guy because they didn't.

OK...
they paid him 50 million total gtd.

That's serious ched. And my point is, that if he doesn't play to the level of a guy just drafted, that is a waste of money because you could just play a rookie for way cheaper.

It isn't about comparing his contract to that of say Cousins, or Goff, or whoever the highest paid guys are its cost vs production.
He needs to come in and produce like the 18th best QB (as opposed to whatever Minshew was, 24th?)
If he doesn't the contract just wasn't worth it, period.

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