Sydla
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Ravens backed up the brink truck for Rice literally the summer before they won the Lombardi.
Marshawn Lynch made 40m$ in Seattle after he was traded there which was bonkers money for a RB. He got them to two Super Bowls, and ironically had they focused more on their workhorse RB they’d have won 2 rings.
Marahall Faulk led the Rams to 2 Super Bowls and probably would have won both if not for spygate, and just before the first one they signed him to 7 years, 45m$ which was NUTS money back then.
Jerome Bettis was signed to the third largest RB deal in the league a few years before they won in 2005.
In 2006 the Steelers signed Willie Parker to a 4m$ a year deal, which at the time was top 5, which Shawn Alexander making the most at 7m$ a year. He won them a ring 2 years later.
Speaking of Shawn Alexander, if it wasnt for the absolutely heinous referees in that super bowl, we can swap Bettis’s Anecdote for his, and the single highest paid RB in league history at the time nearly did it. Even getting there like that would be confirmation that Zeke was the right move.
Then we can talk about all the other guys on big deals who almost did it as well. Stephen Davis with the Panthers, Frank Gore with the 9ers, Todd Gurley with the Rams....
So by your point, it literally happens all the time.
You realize that in 2012, when Rice signed that deal, his AAV on that contract ranked 11th, right? His guaranteed money? Ranked 12th. So not quite on the "backed the Brinks" truck up angle there.
You went back as far as 2006 and came up with maybe 4 TBs that might have been making elite money that played in a SB. You basically helped prove my point. Many, if not most, teams get to a SB without having to invest a crap ton of money into their TB.