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There are already reports that they're not going to pursue him.

It set a precedent of guaranteed salary in literal terms, but it did not necessarily set an expectation of a guaranteed salary if you get what I'm saying. Also, remember that was four years ago, and even with all the hoopla, his cap hit for 2018 was 12.6% (and 2019, 15.1% and 2020 10.6%). So yeah it was kinda the same, but still very different. The NFL is afraid that an LJ contract will actually set a trend, particularly with several high-level QBs coming up, not to mention Mahomes' re-upping.

There may be some people who just want to move to one to move to one. There are some people who just want to draft a QB in the first just to draft a QB. What I am saying is that in order to get the QB that you want, and not just any old QB by default just because he's there or the one that's left, you must move to one. Otherwise, what's the point if you're not going to get your guy because you let someone move in front of you and draft him instead?

I heard from someone on ESPN that said Schneider just may sign Lamar to a huge guaranteed contract to piss the other owners off. As for the Falcons, they certainly have the cap space to sign him.

Now now, they are rational posters. But I never EVER thought that he'd be going in the first round. AR might though. Their circumstances and situations are only the same on a very rudimentary and cursory level.

Yes, risks abound, but someone is going to weigh the risks and go from there. Some team will likely trade up to one, and some team is likely going to pay Jackson. "No risk it, no biscuit!"

Yes, any given Sunday...Furthermore, It's funny how you want to basically blame Lamar Jackson for the loss, but conveniently forget that he's a part of an organization that you've been putting on a pedestal as a role model of a franchise. Lamar didn't lose to us by himself, there's a pretty good coach, and DC (among others) that got their asses whipped also. John Harbaugh lost to Steve Wilks and a broken coaching staff, but that has conveniently been left out of your decidedly weak attempt to blame all things bad on Jackson.

No, they don't want to break the bank to keep him. What they want is to keep contracts for star QBs (if not star players at any position) what they consider reasonable. What they definitely don't want is to set in stone a precedent of guaranteeing NFL contracts. What you fail to realize is if they thought that Lamar was incapable of getting them back to the Super Bowl, then they wouldn't have offered him a contract at all. If you don't believe that, then watch what happens. There is a whole lot of politicking going on here, and seeing who will blink first. If the Ravens fail to get it done, someone else will.

It's going to be more than three firsts for an unproven rookie.

Yep. Not because he can't play.

No, it means that the Ravens are dumbasses. Furthermore, I don't think that he's the boogeyman, but I know that he has been a league MVP and has that type of talent.

Is that supposed to be shameful or something?

He beat Mahomes' and Burrow's ass already with only one legit weapon. But I'm sure that escapes the haters.

Hell, who cares? It was too much!

I just heard on ESPN radio that it's 70 million in guarantees, but 100 mil guaranteed in total.

I already told him that two weeks ago, and he couldn't seem to understand that.

Oh, the irony

Sure.

Levis was certainly under the radar during the Combine. The most exciting news of him was his bravado. And Levis doesn't even have the best tape, but who knows?

Well, you can chock it up to Person speculating, but it makes sense to me considering Anthony Richardson's 2022 season. He had a nice Combine, but are all these football minds going to give the Underwear Olympics so much importance that they'd draft AR based on that and media-driven hype? I wouldn't think so. "My sense is the Panthers — like a lot of other teams — like Richardson’s raw talent, but not enough to draft him high. But if Richardson’s record-setting performance Saturday changed the way other teams view the 6-4, 244-pound athlete, it could bump one of the other guys down a spot." I wonder what the "buzz" about our interest in trading to three actually was and from where did it originate? "Still, as Fitterer said, if you’re sold on one of the quarterbacks, you have to go up and get him, which means trading away a couple of future first-round picks. There was buzz in Indy the Panthers are interested in swapping spots with Arizona at 3, which would guarantee they’d get one of the top three QBs." Trading to three doesn't make sense to me unless we're happy with three of the top draft prospects at quaterback. Could be, but I doubt it. Maybe we know something as to what Houston is going to do, or perhaps it's just the lying season. Who knows? https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2023/03/06/panthers-not-high-anthony-richardson-combine-draft-cardinals/

I just don't think they're going to do it, but if they do, they have a screw loose. On the draft capital front, you could get Lamar cheaper than you could move up to one. For all you Lamar haters, you don't think Dave Tepper won't be licking his chops (and it won't be for ketchup-covered steak)?

I fuged up anyway. I was looking at the wrong thing.

Scrap that! I'm looking at the old one

Old contract

But the Ravens weren't paying him a ton of money. KC took care of Mahomes. It's OK if we disagree, but I don't think that Lamar plays recklessly. I think he actually plays pretty smartly. I don't see him trying to truck people out on the field, or taking unnecessary hits. Sure, he runs a lot, but is that just because he likes to run, or is it because he hasn't had great skill players (or a combination of both)? In my opinion, he's proven to be a pretty smart player.