Best way to rebuild and take advantage of a rookie QB contract is to have the core built first then get the QB.
If you get the QB first and the team sucks, by the time you get the team you will be on the second contract of the QB.
That is why I have no idea why teams that are so bad draft a QB. If you have the number 1 pick, trade back and accumulate drift picks. Build your a OLine first.
That was the old plan, there is no blueprint, come on dude when was the last rookie quarterback or the rookie deal quarterback who won a Super Bowl? that would be mahomes, who is the last quarterback to win a Super Bowl that would be Mahomes before that was it Stafford and Brady these dudes were older veterans on big contracts... Their teams found a way around the salary cap, so, can ours.
That old narrative where it's best to win while you're quarterbacks on a rookie deal, well that's kind of been thrown out with the bathwater... I get that would be great if you can find a really good quarterback that's under a rookie deal and still who got beat in the Super bowl it would be Brock Purdy under his rookie deal by a veteran by one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. So are we saying that Brock Purdy should not be paid because if paying him will keep you from getting back to a Super Bowl they should just let him walk trade him why you can?? I mean anytime a good quarterback or even a great one comes up for a contract you're supposed to get rid of him if you haven't been to a Super Bowl??
so, let's just rephrase take advantage of having one of the best quarterbacks in the league by building around him because other quarterbacks on the all-in process. I mean even the Eagles lost the Super bowl with jalen hurts under his rookie deal TO a highly paid Mahomes, then paid him anyway and then didn't get close to the Super bowl last year...But they are sticking with Hurts hes in what the 48mil range? Burrows, allen, and LJ all near or over 50? Murray near 50? why did he get paid hes done less than Dak for sure. Watson very highly paid and done nothing, Wilson hasnt been good for what 5 years they gave up how many draft picks and 250mil deal to him,... i mean why trade for rogers , Wilson, and Watson giving up high draft picks and huge market setting deals if your theory is real gms use rookie qb deals windows to win..well that doesn't work for majority of the league. and the majority seems to be paying their qbs market money..
to be clear, im not comfortable with Dak making 60mil but the alternative is spending how many years to find a qb on rookie deal good enough to get you farther than dak?? blowing it up is NOT a guarantee it could be far worse like giant step back.
So why are all these teams paying their quarterbacks look at the top 10 salaries at quarterback if this was the case if it was so easy to find a young quarterback on a rookie deal that's also very good like good enough to get you to a Super Bowl everyone would do it the problem is there's barely two good quarterbacks that come out in every draft and typically only one of them turn out to be great if that, I mean that's being very nice...