With DJ going down for the year and us most certainly picking up a QB this draft it got me thinking Saquon originally wanted 16Mil/yr. Danny Dimes fought with the organization for a $40mil contract. Saquon and other RBs around the league didn’t get paid because of their injury concerns but looking around the NFL Deshaun Watson, Joe Burrow, Derrick Carr, Ryan Tannehill, Daniel Jones just to name a few, are all QBs with significant cap hits not playing up to or getting any value in their contract. I know hindsight is 20/20 and I even defended Jones contract when he signed it (not enthusiastically mind you) but now Barkley is getting run into the dirt while his QB rehabs in an already lost season. Next season now we gotta deal with Jones contract and it makes even LESS sense to give Saquon the money he’s looking for.

If you ask me, the only QBs that should be making 40Mil+ are Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson.

  • HungrySwimmer26BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tbf simple economics explains why Saquon and Jacobs were both underpaid using the franchise tag:

    • A GM wants to buy a good (RB) and has the option to pay market price or a set price
    • The GM and seller (RB agent) negotiate, but the GM knows they can buy at a set price so has no reason to go over the franchise tag
    • if the GM believed the good was worth less than the buy now price (franchise tag) they would not buy the good (RB) because why overpay?
    • if the GM believes the good is worth the buy now price or more they will only ever pay the buy now price as why overpay?
    • it’s very unlikely two goods with different productions have the exact same value so at least one but likely both were underpaid

    This is before you even factor in the buy now negates the risk of future loss injury and drop in production limiting them to a yearly renew at whatever the ever decreasing tag price is