RiverDog wrote:I don't get it, either. The Bucs just signed Baker Mayfield, a player with more upside than Cousins, to a 3 year deal worth $100M with $50M guaranteed. That pales in comparison to the $180M/4 year deal that Cousins got.
It's likely more a product of good timing and a savvy agent than it is quality of play.
4XPIPS wrote:Well its just the new cap we are working with. I couldn't remember who from CBS sports calculated, but he projected by 2030 there will be $100Mil per year average for top tier QBs. It's hard to imagine but the number just keeps growing year after year. However, Deshaun Watson's gurantee is still the most draw dropping amount of money given to any QB thus far.
It's a bit of a different topic and worthy of its own thread, but the NFL's revenue is going to top out at some point. With the advent of internet streaming, the industry is going to get more specialized, with people being able to opt of networks like ESPN. They could end killing the goose that laid the golden egg if they allow networks to televise games exclusively over a certain streaming service as they've done with TNF and the Dolphins-Chiefs playoff game as it limits the size of their audience. Gen Z is much less interested in sports than earlier generations. Participation in football in the high schools and colleges is down, due in part to health and safety concerns.
It could be a different world by 2030.