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Originally Posted by OneWinningDrive
I gotta give props to you. There were oodles of people who acted like the Ravens overpaid for Lamar before this season began, but I thought they went extinct when he immediately went on the win MVP and made the contract look like a bargain in addition to it not being guaranteed and not being a 10-year deal requiring constant restructures. But you’re bravely continuing on as the last of your species. Fight on!
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So if Lamar Jackson approached the Ravens and asked them to put 4 years at $45 million/season on the back of his deal (which would be robbery given the rise in the cap) do you think they'd do it? Would you be excited if they did?
And what if they guaranteed it? Which again - would STILL be robbery for a 2-time MVP who's out there winning games with mental processing and not raw athletic ability. You'd have a clear-cut franchise QB, a future HoFer, locked in at reasonable rates through his early 30s. And as a guy who's winning between the ears, there's reason to believe he'll only get BETTER from this point forward.
If no, why not? If yes, why weren't the Ravens eager to do that in the first place? Who cares about 'restructures' -- those are accounting mechanisms on their worst days. Guy gets paid in one check instead of 17 and his salary spreads across 4 or 5 years of the cap instead of one.
The Ravens built in an escape hatch. One that, I'm sure by mere happenstance, coincides with the age where athleticism is known to fall off fairly precipitously. It was savvy - yes, because they know the guy's not going to age well. Because he's NOT the guy you continue to insist he is.
He IS a very dangerous offensive weapon who wins games with his legs. Smoke 'em while you got 'em - no shame in that. But to try to argue otherwise is just asinine.