Aircrew":2q6bbzrw said:
Rat":2q6bbzrw said:
I feel so bad for Browns fans. As a lifelong Buckeye fan, I've met a lot of good ones.
I hope this gets us Baker though. He'd be so much more fun to root for than the past few years of Russ. I love his passion and moxie.
Totally agree. And the Browns, who were wanting a little much for Baker, have zero leverage now. Throw them a 4th, nothing more. Probably have to give Baker 3/50, which I'd be good with.
Mayfield is getting $19M fully guaranteed in 2022 for the 5th year of his (first-round) rookie contract. I don't think he's going to want the drop in pay a $17M-per-year extension would be.
Realistically, would the Seahawks have any shot at a championship with Baker Mayfield as their QB? I don't see it, so I don't think getting an already-expensive (and already-shown-not-to-be-top-tier) QB makes sense for the Seahawks.
When I say "expensive" here, I'm not comparing him to QBs who make $40M+ per year. I'm comparing him to players on rookie contracts. Is it really worth $19M for 2022 plus the need to give him an extension, just to get what we can expect to be roughly the 20th-best QB in the NFL? I'd rather have a nobody on a rookie contract for a year, with an eye toward using next year's draft capital to get a QB who will be inexpensive for four years (and very cost-controlled for a fifth year if he's good enough in his first three to merit the team picking up his fifth-year option). It's true that the draft is a crapshoot, but I'd rather have a young and cheap QB who
might turn into a good player than a guy who's already expensive and looks very likely never to be anything more than adequate (let's say somewhere in the middle third of starters if he continues to perform as "well" as he did in 2018-2020, bottom quarter if he's as bad as in 2021) in the NFL.