NFL's highest paid player: Matthew Stafford gets 5 yr, $135 mil extension

[captain stone]

...Factor in Stafford's ability to come from behind the past few years (record setting 8 in 2016) and the fact that Detroit blew a couple other games in the last seconds....
My point....Stafford isn't as bad as people want to believe and Stafford has made Detroit better than they are. It's a team sport and his teams have been dreadful...

Of those 8 "comeback" wins, at least half of them had nothing whatsoever to do with Stafford, and all to do with just plain dumb luck and the laughable incompetence of the opposition.

The Loins & Caldwell are going down this season, hard.

 

[jmt57]

Great research here but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion.

For example, I don't think Flaccos $ and cap is killing BAL. Their drafting has sucked.

Some QBs with high cap % are on winning teams

The cap will go up so your % will go down.

Good observations.

One note: the QB percentages are for what the cap is expected to be that season, so the increase in cap is already factored in.

 

[dafoe2016]

This is the equivalent of giving Al Horford $30m a year. He hasn't won anything. Hes not really in the discussion of best at his position but he's good enough and the market was right for him to cash in.

Horford was a big mistake. Ainge now has two guys that are grotesquely overpaid. You can get away with one, maybe even two if you keep that Brooklyn pick and turn it into a great young (cheap) franchise player. But not with the Irving trade. If that goes through they are locked into non contention for at least two years. Then what? Irving will be up and after what Ainge did to IT he's going to have an even harder time getting free agents. It's a mess. An absolute mess.

 

[dafoe2016]

Stafford = Bledsoe

Absolutely moronic comparison.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Horford was a big mistake. Ainge now has two guys that are grotesquely overpaid. You can get away with one, maybe even two if you keep that Brooklyn pick and turn it into a great young (cheap) franchise player. But not with the Irving trade. If that goes through they are locked into non contention for at least two years. Then what? Irving will be up and after what Ainge did to IT he's going to have an even harder time getting free agents. It's a mess. An absolute mess.

Who is the other overpay? Hayward's deal is fine. He's in his prime.

I'd be ok with Horfords $ if he was 3 years younger, stronger on the boards and was a bigger presence defensively.

 

[dafoe2016]

Who is the other overpay? Hayward's deal is fine. He's in his prime.

I'd be ok with Horfords $ if he was 3 years younger, stronger on the boards and was a bigger presence defensively.

But he's not. They are paying him like an All Star yet he is generally invisible.

 

[RobertWeathers]

But he's not. They are paying him like an All Star yet he is generally invisible.

They are paying him like an All-Star because he was an All-Star.

Not every deal is a perfect match to the player's talent.

Sometimes the market dictates the deal.

Providing they land Kyrie they are winning 60 games this year, have young, high-end talent on the roster and have a ton of likely high picks in the future.Lots to look forward too.

Dwelling on contracts is a waste of time at this point.

 

[Deus Irae]

Horford was a big mistake. Ainge now has two guys that are grotesquely overpaid. You can get away with one, maybe even two if you keep that Brooklyn pick and turn it into a great young (cheap) franchise player. But not with the Irving trade. If that goes through they are locked into non contention for at least two years. Then what? Irving will be up and after what Ainge did to IT he's going to have an even harder time getting free agents. It's a mess. An absolute mess.

Horford's fine. The mistake is the Thomas/Irving trade. If they don't make that trade, they've got

Horford
Hayward
Tatum
Brown
Excellent percent chance at 1-2 elite big man prospects

moving forward, whether they bring back Thomas or not. In a league where people overstate the decline of the big man, the decline of the point guard is wildly understated.

 

[TommyD4207]

Stafford = Bledsoe

Bledsoe won playoff games, beat teams with winning records, and did it outside.

So no.

 

[Dagg]

Just think about teams needing qbs this year. That is what drives this market. Did any of them solve thier problems via draft or FA..no they didnt. Bills need a qb, jville needs a qb, SF need a qb, houston needs a qb, cle needs a qb, jets need a qb, Chicago (they gave glenon 18mill ffs). You can let these "middling" QB guys hit the open market with so many qb starved teams out there.

 

[Ring 6]

Bledsoe won playoff games, beat teams with winning records, and did it outside.

So no.

Bledsoe won 3 playoff games in his career and played in a better team.
Staffers is only 28. He certainly can get 3 playoff wins before he is done.

Both were less than accurate, threw a lot of picks and not so many TDs and struggle with decision making especially under pressure and put up a boatload of yards.