***Note, I don't care how much the player will make this year total, I'm looking at hit against the cap, that's all that matters as far as impacting the team.CharVike wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:47 amBasically your conclusion is if you have a top 10 salaried QB you will never make the playoffs or compete. Let's see for 2021. Please don't look in the future I'm talking right now.
Ranking the NFL's biggest contracts for 2021 as per NFL .com
Mahomes - 45 million - Playoffs
Allen - 43 million - Playoffs
Prescott - 40 million - Playoffs.
Watson - 39 million - Didn't play team sucks as it did with him last year. 4 wins both season. He is a loser. No elevation from him.
Wilson - 35 million - No playoffs. Yes he won a Super Bowl. Of course the LOB never gets any credit. This year nothing.
Rodgers - 33.5 million - Top seeded team. He's a bargain.
Goff - 33.5 million - Not much. His teams sucks which doesn't help but the haters will say it's all his fault.
Cousins - 33 million - Dogs. Haters will say he sucks on a great core team. The lovers will say he's good but the core team sucks.
Wentz - 32 million - Chockers. Back to the drawing board I guess.
Ryan - 30 million - Joke
Tannehill - 29.5 - Playoffs. Very good all around team. No major weaknesses.
Top 11 QB salary for 2021 and 5 of the kings made the playoffs. The others are worthless or there core team sucked. Maybe it was a combination. The salary number is from NFL .com. That can change in 2 seconds I guess.
Somehow the Chiefs were able to put a dam good team together with the highest paid QB.
First, I'd say that you're looking at 2021 whereas if we're talking "right now" that's 2022 and Kirk is the 3rd highest cap hit in the NFL behind Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers.
My argument isn't that paying league-high money for a QB is a bad thing. My argument is paying that much for a middle-tier QB is. The better the QB the more you can afford to pay him because he doesn't need as strong of a supporting cast. As you continue down the list of QBs you start to need more and more freed up money to build a better team around them.
By the time you get to the teens (which Kirk falls into in basically every ranking outside of the Vikings Message Board) you need to start having money to pay that supporting cast. That's why after the 9 highest paid players in the league, which are all QBs, you start to see other positions pop up as the highest paid. Because most teams would rather pay a player that's actually top tier at other important positions, like T.J. Watt, than pay a player that's the 13th best player at their position the 3rd most money in the league.