OT: Caleb Williams' agents asking NFL teams for equity?

tl:dr....brasil muses about the NFL, QBs ..........save your time and skip it. 


I wouldn't hold out breath that the league will roll back some of the changes.

They have to defend themselves against the head trauma, so some contact deemed permissible before is now out. Gambling wants to make money on over/unders so you need scoring, thus rules that favor OFF. Fantasy football (even the NFL.com lets people do leagues on line) is driven by OFF numbers, so again rules that favor scoring. In a circle argument, QBs are needed to generate those points so rules are needed to protect the QBs--frankly no one is watching a Chiefs-Bills game if Mahomes and Allen are both injured. That involves the TV contracts and the new streaming contracts.

(I'm going to become QB-centric here, but I do think there are other team building aspects involved.)

Hence we divide QBs into 4 tiers:
(1) Elite/Franchise (Mahomes, Brady...Rodgers....then the non-winner Allen, Barrow.....)
(2) The very Good (Stafford, Herbert, Lawrence, Hurt....maybe Tua, Jackson...)
(3) The adequate (Cousins, Dak, Goff....).
(4) Bad (MJones....)

Teams with bad QBs struggle to win games (ie score points) in the new NFL.
Teams with adequate QBs can make the playoffs but most of the time don't win playoff games for whatever reason.
Teams with very good QBs are threats to get to championships even SBs.
Teams with Elite QBs are "certain" to get to championships and SBs, more often than not winning them.

Even good teams with adequate QBs are desperate to move up on the QB tiers. We don't often realize this. The Chiefs paid a first round premium to move up to draft a QB. Reid knew he had to get better at QB and he paid for Mahomes with 2 first rounds picks and a 3rd. That was the price to move up from 27 to 10. (Different topic for a different day...would the Bills still make that trade seeing what Mahomes has turned into?)

The problem here is really mult-sided, and we argue all the sides with each other. But we still have to solve each problem.

If you have an adequate QB who wins in the regular season consistently (Cousins), you need to either (a) pay him or (b) move on to a draft pick who may or may not struggle. You will tend to be drafting in the early 20s at this point, so that means trading up or hoping to draft someone falling. If the pick doesn't work out, you went from being a winning team to a losing team. How many teams want to risk this? So Dak and Cousins get paid. Now you are pouring money into a hole with a QB who isn't playoff capable.

if you have a very good QB, you try to max his opportunity by adding FA vets, trades and draft picks. Most will be OFF players, but you might add an elite defender if possible to try and gain a small edge on DEF. This is what the Chiefs did. They tried to build around Alex Smith by adding elite skill positions. I don't think the Chief's plan was to build a team and then drop a QB in. They built the way they did because they had a QB (Smith.) When they saw he still wasn't enough to push them up a tier, they jumped to add Mahomes. It was a big risk, most teams wouldn't have done it. Most teams would have continued to run with Alex Smith (who had an in the conversation MVP season). This is why teams pay their Staffords.

If you have the elite, you pay him. Period. Remember when the conversation was that if you paid more than 12% of your cap to your QB you weren't going to win the SB? We don't hear that anymore because the Chiefs did it. Looking at that list above, most of those QBs are on SB ready teams. You are counting on this guy masking roster holes AND maybe attracting vets who a discount who want to win championships. 

To me, Herbert right now is a good QB who can't seem to make the playoffs or win playoff games for whatever reason. AND he got paid! Will the Chargers regret that? Goff is winning games now, but do you trust him to beat the Eagles in the division round? The Niners in the NFC Championship? Where does Purdy fit into all of this? No option year with him, its tag him or sign him or let him walk. He's in year 2, they need to decided next year! Is he a $50mil+ QB?

If you are an AFC team, you need to complete against Mahomes, Allen..and the Jackson, Lawrence, Herbert, Tua and I'm sure I left someone out. (Rodgers isn't listed because the douche got injured.) Mac Jones isn't going to cut it. BB knows this and he also knows that Zappe isn't going to cut it or he would already have moved on. 

Well, I'm mused for long enough.

This is what I saw in his highlights. He has plenty of time to sit back and find his WRs. Notre Dame showing what happens if you put pressure on him. Let's see if he continues to have this kind of day or turns it around.

Yeah, he was really off yesterday & I have seen a couple of tweets that say he is only as good as his opponent's D.
Maye is starting to turn it around after a slow start. I am going to keep my eye on him. JABF, it's getting to be time for a Málaga mock off season. 😉😉😉

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