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It's the price of doing business vs a sound investment argument. Paying Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, etc is the price of doing business. Paying Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow are varying forms of sound investments. Lamar had his years to show if he was worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as the other sound investment quarterbacks, but his playoff record speaks for itself. As the QB you don't get to pick your team usually coming out of the draft, you roll with the dice that you were given, but the Ravens were Super Bowl worthy a year or two out of those years, namely the 2019 MVP year for Lamar, but he didn't get it done. You can point to regular season stats all you want, nobody doubts your ability to get a team to the playoffs, but your record in the playoffs would be damning for me if I were a GM, and I'm not about to give you Mahomes money, or a fully guaranteed deal, because you can't fully guarantee me a playoff victory and haven't shown yourself capable of that. It's just not the right contract to shoot for the stars, no matter what your ego, agent, friends, or the media is whispering in your ear. You have no agent, you're coming off an injury year where you didn't do squat, including coming back to try to help your team win a playoff game, you just don't have the leverage you think you do and no team is going to recreate what Cleveland did with Deshaun Watson for you. An organization can apologize and take steps to lessen a serial rapist, or dog murderer as second chances, but they can't sell their fan base an oft injured QB who thinks he's better than he actually is and hasn't proven himself better than a top 10 QB.
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