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Originally Posted by DRM08
I look around the league and see other big money QB's with great OL's and weapons. Jared Goff just got $80M this year and has a completely stacked roster around him. That includes an elite RT on a massive contract, elite receiver on a massive contract, really good LT on a big money contract, etc. Joe Burrow has gotten $110M the last couple years and has Orlando Brown plus WR's Chase/Higgins. Somehow the Eagles have big money players all over their roster (including OL/WR) while paying big money to Jalen Hurts. Lamar Jackson got $80M last year and has Ronnie Stanley on a big money deal at Left Tackle. Josh Allen has had Dion Dawkins for 6+ years, including a big money deal for Dawkins at the moment. On and on it goes. Mahomes already provided the team with a pretty big discount from 2020 to 2022. He could have gone the Burrow route (huge cash flow immediately).
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Other teams are more assertive about spending money because they’d rather their best possible 3 year window than trying to spread over 5 years. A luxury we haven’t needed because we’re not desperate as other teams who don’t want to waste their window. We always have that ace in the hole since we’ve been really conservative about our long term cap.