I'm sure you realize that pretty much everyone on that list except for maybe Dalton is going to make 15 million or more sooner rather than later. What do you do then? Trade them and start over with a rookie QB?

For the argument to be consistently valid you'd have to find stud QBs in the draft, use them for the duration of their rookie contract, then trade them or let them walk so you can draft another rookie.

You mentioned this the last time. If the prove to be elite, or near elite you keep them. If not, let them go and try again. The worst thing you can have is an expensive average quarterback.
No. The goal is to find an elite quarterback. Of course you want to keep Drew Brees and Tom Brady. You don't want to keep Carson Palmer and Jay Cutler.

I'm sure you realize that pretty much everyone on that list except for maybe Dalton is going to make 15 million or more sooner rather than later. What do you do then? Trade them and start over with a rookie QB?

For the argument to be consistently valid you'd have to find stud QBs in the draft, use them for the duration of their rookie contract, then trade them or let them walk so you can draft another rookie.

Either get rid of them or sign them to team friendly contracts like Tom Brady signed.

There is no way in hell any of those guys sign a team friendly contract at this point in their career. Brady had already been paid and he makes all kinds of outside marketing type money and his wife pulls down 8 figures too.

If you hit with one of these rooks then its great but doing it twice in a row will be a monumental task.

This is all good, but then the goal is not finding a cheap but good QB, it's finding a good QB who you want to keep around for a long time. This isn't really all that different from what every team is trying to do nowadays.

This just appears to be the trend right now.

It was the trend at all positions. Quarterback was just the last one to fall. Either be elite or don't be expensive.

In fact, I'd argue

No, I mean specifically what I laid out about cheap QB's. I imagine if/when these guys get big deals the rest of the team will suffer.

Might be happening to the Ravens right now

Give me an all time great and you can have the cheap younger guy.

I like your angle. Just get a HOF QB!

That's fine and all but the Saints and Pats are 10-3, broncos are 11-2, Packers were 5-2 when their guy went down, etc. Give me an all time great and you can have the cheap younger guy.

Well the OP specifically mentioned Manning and Rodgers and strongly implied that younger, cheaper guys are a better alternative.

Well the OP specifically mentioned Manning and Rodgers and strongly implied that younger, cheaper guys are a better alternative.

Cheap effective QB's


Russel Wilson 600K
Colin Kaepernick 800K
Andrew Luck 5 M
Cam Newton 5 M
Andy Dalton 850K



It leaves you so much money to build the rest of the team.

Its not that you cant win with highly paid QB's at all, but I think this is the best strategy. The Mannings, Rodgers, Romo and Stafford all make 15 million or more.


Even at such an important position, I think there is a certain percentage you should stay under

I think he is talking as a whole.

I disagree if he is saying you should choose Russel Wilson over Aaron Rodgers at any price. If he is saying that having cheaper Russel Wilson is better than having Romo or Flacco then I agree.

Either get rid of them or sign them to team friendly contracts like Tom Brady signed.

Tom Brady signed a "Brady-friendly" contract. He took $30 million up front just for signing. Sure, it gave the Pats some immediate cap relief but it also pays Brady $3 million more than he was scheduled to make before the re-structuring. His cap hit is between $13-$15 million for the next 5 years. Think that he'll be worth that in 2017?

In the meantime, he's not taking up a ton of the cap. That's all im saying