So even though “it’s a TEAM game” and “TEAMS with SBs not QBs” and even though the QB with the most SB wins in history “wasn’t responsible for those victories it was the TEAM” and he didnt deserve to be paid like an elite QB but we should pay our average QB (who has never even won back to back playoff games let alone a SB) like an elite QB because our only chance is that he will suddenly win a SB for us ?
yeah makes total sense
just quit while you’re behind
I mean I am so far ahead that you had to actually rewrite my argument into something it was not.
Teams win Super Bowls. This is a fact. When he signed his first extension he had yet to have a year that stood out as a QB. This is also a fact. Being the most important position, and being the only position that matters, are not the same thing. He clearly showed he was good enough to win a SB, but back then the need to have one of the top 12 was not as big as it is now.
Also he was getting paid like an elite player, he just was not getting paid the highest contract in the NFL. Again though it was a different era. Outside of Peyton Manning, who was basically playing QB and being the OC, the role of the QB was not as key as it was now. It was not until the year he signed that extension (or it might have been the year after my memories from when NFL rule changes occurred are rusty but I know the game that caused it) that they really went all in on the rules to help offenses. Combine that with the rookie wage scale and suddenly you have QB contracts ballooning like they have the past 8 or 9 years. Accuracy numbers have skyrocketed, while INT numbers have plummeted.
The final point though still stands. Even in some world where he was taking less money. If your demand for a QB is to be Tom Brady with his contracts, you are not going to have a QB, because nobody else is doing that. So you can sit there with those standards and not be competitive or you can join the real world and know the price of winning
