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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The guy is going to be responsible for almost 4K yards of total offense this year. He's unquestionably been in the top 1/2 of NFL quarterbacks this year and he's getting better. His last 4 weeks have been his best weeks thus far.
And folks are really sitting around saying - eh **** it, who needs him?
How the hell did you people forget just how awful so many QBs in this league are. FFS, Matt Cassel is actually getting starts still.
Hell yes he's earned an extension. Should it be some moronic Flacco/Romo style extension? Hell no, but if you can get him to sign an extension for 9-12 million/season, why the hell wouldn't you?
Be reasonable. The guy's been a good quarterback for us and without a proven superior option we'd be silly to let him walk.
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Contracts in the $20M range cause teams to dump talent and saddle the team unless the QB is truly elite.
A contract at $9-12 M/year probably only allows us to keep the status quo. And I'd rather take my chances elsewhere than settle for a few years of feel good football without a real chance for a Superbowl.
I'd feel better at $8 M per year, which is where he's at now. No one thinks we are going to win the SB this year, so that means we still need to add talent to this team if we are building toward a championship. Alex only makes sense if he is cheap enough that we can keep elite talent on both sides of the ball around him.