I went back a dozen years to see how the teams of the “franchise QBs” that were given 2nd (and 3rd) contracts fared to see WHY so many teams think you just don’t do it.Ġ6: Aarod – Greatest QB of all time (?) has average 8 wins per year after his rookie contract. Being willing to trade a franchise QB and finding a team willing to pay market value in both trade capital and salary for that QB is quite another. If they draft a QB because they didn’t get a deal done and they show some promise, who knows. Hawks don’t have that contingency in place, so no, they won’t trade RW this year. That’s why WAS failed so spectacularly with Cousins and traded with (in no small bit of irony) a KC team that had drafted their heir apparent already. In order to move on you have to have a viable succession in place. Stafford, Carr, Dalton, Flacco… Mostly just albatross contracts with nothing to show for it, even though at the time everyone thought you had to because “no one trades a franchise QB in their prime”. I wonder if some of the teams who didn’t trade their ‘franchise’ QB’s would go back and do it differently. It’s a matter of time before a team says, sorry but we’re taking the picks from the cellar-dweller. QB’s are coming into the league more and more prepared. If it works out, it won’t be the last time. Might not be Russ, but someone’s going to do it. If every QB takes this tactic of needing to be the highest paid ever, because it’s their turn to get paid, it will happen.
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