Originally posted by FootballExpert49ers:
Originally posted by Ottawa49er:
Pay him what though? Pay him 35M per year.....sure, no problem. Pay him 60M per year.....no thanks, that would be stupid imo. He is good.....he is not elite. He has not earned an elite salary.
Do you guys think this is paying for a consumer product or something?
There is no "worth it" for a starting quarterback. If he's the guy, you pay him whatever. If he's not the guy, you don't even start him, and then you don't pay him more than you'd pay a backup.
I don't want Derek Carr at 60 million and I don't want Derek Carr at 20 million either. I wouldn't want Derek Carr for more than 2 million, because Carr is not a good starter. I wouldn't want Carr as a starting QB.
>>>Do you guys think this is paying for a consumer product or something?
Obviously they would be paying for "something".....how can you not see that? The "something" in this case is " a service"....specifically the service of playing at the starting QB position in the NFL. You pay for value, you don't pay whatever they want because they are starters.
>>>There is no "worth it" for a starting quarterback. If he's the guy, you pay him whatever.
Ah NO.....that is simply not correct. Take a basic business course if you really think that. The front office will evaluate his service and potential future service and other factors, and determine what is a fair price for that service ( i.e. value ). You seem to be suggesting that all starting QB's are equal....that they are either a starting QB and should get paid "whatever", or they are not a starting QB and shouldn't. Obviously there are different talent levels of starting QB;s. e.g, Montana and Mahomes were elite QB's....they should get paid as elite QB's. It's more complicated than bucket 1 is starting QB's and pay them whatever they want, or they are bucket 2 QB's and not starting QB's, so pay them almost nothing. Whether you want to admit it or not, there are some QB's who are worth bigger contracts than other starting QB's. Your inability to distinguish between elite versus good QB's is what I am disagreeing with, not whether of not you personally agree that Brock is worth $60M per year.
>>>I don't want Derek Carr at 60 million and I don't want Derek Carr at 20 million either. I wouldn't want Derek Carr for more than 2 million, because Carr is not a good starter. I wouldn't want Carr as a starting QB.
Okay, and you are entitled to that opinion. However, you have contradicted yourself. You mention that Carr is not a good
starter......but he is a starting QB and you claimed that there is no "worth it" for starting QB's, you just pay them whatever. Now you are claiming that he is only worth $2M. You can't have it both ways.
[ Edited by Ottawa49er on Dec 14, 2024 at 11:01 AM ]