Jimmy Garoppolo Highest Paid Player in NFL History

[t96]

They better hope he doesn't turn out like other QBs with small sample sizes did... Osweiler, Kaepernick....

 

I do think he's legit though. Glad we don't play him next year regular season.

[Cary Kollins]

As always, the big figure doesn't really matter until you see the full details of the contract.

[SmokinwithWilly]

2 minutes ago, Cary Kollins said:

As always, the big figure doesn't really matter until you see the full details of the contract.

Kaep got that huge contact that ended up being a glorified year to year rental.

[SCO96]

42 minutes ago, h0llywood said:

After 7 career starts.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000915489/article/niners-sign-jimmy-garoppolo-to-record-fiveyear-contract

 

Maybe I'm just old school, but there's no way I'd even consider asking to be the highest paid player in NFL history after starting 7 games, no matter what my agent said or what other "franchise QB's" were making. I wouldn't want to have to live up to the hype and expectations a deal like that knowing that I haven't even completed a 16 game season. I'd also be wondering if I were making too much money to put a competent team on both sides of the ball.

 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, SCO96 said:

Maybe I'm just old school, but there's no way I'd even consider asking to be the highest paid player in NFL history after starting 7 games, no matter what my agent said or what other "franchise QB's" were making. I wouldn't want to have to live up to the hype and expectations a deal like that knowing that I haven't even completed a 16 game season. I'd also be wondering if I were making too much money to put a competent team on both sides of the ball.

 

 

I'd take every dime I could and not give a single fug about the expectations and I'd roll away from that contract signing like

[Mr. Scot]

I don't really think anybody blames players for trying to get as much money as they can, especially in a sport where you can often only play a few years and you're one injury away from being out for good.

That said, these out of control contracts can definitely have a negative effect on the league.

[t96]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Cue Russell Wilson and others looking to renegotiate.

Despite Blank's comments, I fully expect Matty Ice to get paid well over $27M/year on his next deal. Cam will too but we've got him "cheap" for another 3 seasons which is nice.

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I don't really think anybody blames players for trying to get as much money as they can, especially in a sport where you can often only play a few years and you're one injury away from being out for good.

That said, these out of control contracts can definitely have a negative effect on the league.

I honestly don't think it has a negative impact on the league as a whole. It definitely has a negative impact on teams that sink big chunks of their cap space into marginal QBs, but the league as a whole? The hard salary cap is still in place. The overall player talent pool still remains the same. The teams that invest in the wrong QBs have to make sacrifices elsewhere on their roster and suffer as a result.

The question teams have to start asking themselves is whether they want to pay a "good" QB, say a Kirk Cousins, top franchise QB money or would they rather take that cap space and build an overall stronger roster and try to draft and develop a QB who can be propped up by that overall stronger roster. It'll be interesting if this year's trend continues with a lot of franchise QBs sitting at home relatively early in the playoffs getting beaten by overall better teams or if it was just a one year fluke.

[t96]

Jimmy G had a ton of leverage going into FA when negotiating a long term deal, especially since they traded for him. The other alternative to a long term deal was obviously the franchise tag. Not sure why they didn't want to go that route (he clearly wasn't any cheaper now than if he played a full year at a high level), it seemed like a no brainer. Let him prove over 1 full season that he's your guy and then pay him.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I honestly don't think it has a negative impact on the league as a whole. It definitely has a negative impact on teams that sink big chunks of their cap space into marginal QBs, but the league as a whole? The hard salary cap is still in place. The overall player talent pool still remains the same. The teams that invest in the wrong QBs have to make sacrifices elsewhere on their roster and suffer as a result.

The question teams have to start asking themselves is whether they want to pay a "good" QB, say a Kirk Cousins, top franchise QB money or would they rather take that cap space and build an overall stronger roster and try to draft and develop a QB who can be propped up by that overall stronger roster. It'll be interesting if this year's trend continues with a lot of franchise QBs sitting at home relatively early in the playoffs getting beaten by overall better teams or if it was just a one year fluke.

The thing is that teams sinking huge money into marginal players forces other teams with good players to have to pay even more money.

So in the end, smart teams get hurt by the actions of stupid teams.

[LinvilleGorge]

10 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The thing is that teams sinking huge money into marginal players forces other teams with good players to have to pay even more money.

So in the end, smart teams get hurt by the actions of stupid teams.

I would agree if this was baseball but the hard salary cap keeps everyone on a level playing field. Teams just have to weigh the risk/reward of offering these types of contracts. If things keep going we'll eventually reach a tipping point where it's no longer advantageous to sign star level players.

[thefuzz]

Dumb, but whatever.

 

These huge contracts are OK, not good, but OK, if you have a ton of cap space, and can front load the deal.

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I would agree if this was baseball but the hard salary cap keeps everyone on a level playing field. Teams just have to weigh the risk/reward of offering these types of contracts. If things keep going we'll eventually reach a tipping point where it's no longer advantageous to sign star level players.

See, in my opinion, the hard salary cap makes it tougher.

When you have to overspend on somebody that isn't truly worth what you're paying him, that means you don't have as much money to pay somebody else what they might be worth.

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

See, in my opinion, the hard salary cap makes it tougher.

When you have to overspend on somebody that isn't truly worth what you're paying him, that means you don't have as much money to pay somebody else what they might be worth.

It does make it tougher on the individual team, but not the league as a whole. That team has now handicapped themselves with that cap hit reducing their ability to sign/re-sign other talent and making that talent available to the other 31 teams.