Sources: QB Burrow gets record $275M extension
Joe Burrow's five-year extension with the Bengals makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history and includes $219.01M guaranteed, sources said.
www.espn.com
Burrow $275M extension
- Thread starter rick64
- Start date
www.espn.com
He’ll get his, which means we say goodbye to Higgins and Boyd as well as some others.
Going to be another one of those teams with a few stars that’s always on the edge of being competitive, but never quite there.
It’s this season or die for the Bengals. Won’t have another shot like this.
I don't like so much of the money being guaranteed for the top paid players. I think 50% or so of the contract's value is fair and sets the player up for life. More than that and the team risks being screwed for years if the player gets injured early in the contract and ties up a huge piece of the salary cap. Alternatively, the league could adopt some salary cap relief for career ending injuries.
I respectfully disagree. If the league provided salary cap relief for career ending injuries, the unintended consequence of that would be even more money going to the QB. That injury thing is already priced in.
The NFL is great because of parity. If your team gets too good, a portion of your players are going to leave because they'll get more money elsewhere. Brady took a salary under market rates for years - which helped out NE significantly. You could argue Mahomes is under market rates right now.
QBs - and Mahomes has said this - have to realize that the more they make the worse the team is going to be. He realizes that he can still go to the same places making $45M a year as $60 a year, but he'll have a better line around him keeping him healthy and successful if he makes $45, I respect the hell out of that dude.
As a Bengal fan I like it. You can't let the best QB in franchise history get away. They do have their work cut out surrounding him with talent.
No, no it won’t
Agreed. But I don't think it will go up any more for a while unless they get a lot more globalization.
If he's smart, and if his recent trends dictate anything, he won't.
If you chase that top contract, you're going to hamstring your team. I think Mahomes gets this, and he's following the Brady model. Whatever millions you give up, you'll get back if your team wins a ring.
As Bengals fans, you should hope Burrow does the same, and I think, eventually, he will.
We'll see. Mahomes with 2 rings in his pocket, I can't see him just sitting back content to be the 5th or 6th highest paid QB. He'll eventually want his in the end like both Brady & Rodgers.
State Farm, Subway, Head and Shoulders, Oakley, Hy-Vee, DirecTV and Adidas agree completely.
Agree, it seems like all the time you are hearing some new QB becoming the next highest paid. It changes hands so much, a few years ago it was Matthew Stafford and Derek Carr getting paid.
It's no different than other entertainments. Swift took in over $1B just this summer.
that contract will get restructured probably 5 times before the last dollar is paid. It shouldn't be cap prohibitive, with respect to keeping the folks they really want to.
Are you idiots really getting on here and trashing Joe Burrow? Bless your dimwitted hearts...
Are you idiots really getting on here and trashing Joe Burrow? Bless your dimwitted hearts...
Yep, both sides of the ball have struggled to this point. Zero pass rush today, Ravens receivers burned the secondary. Down 2 division games early.
It's extremely early in the season and this will change soon enough but the Colts currently have a better record than the Bengals. And just to piss people off further, Richardson>Levis, and I hate to admit that.
Bengals can't keep starting in holes like this. For a team that has superbowl aspirations, next week is a must-win. If they lose then a top seed is almost all but gone.
Plus these are the worst games to lose.. divisional and therefore conference games. Not good.
Last edited:
My issues are with Taylor and Callahan. Offense has been pretty zilch. TE is a no show as well. They've not made it a priority and missed the boat this past draft
Disagree, at some point tv/streaming contracts won’t pay as much and it’ll force the price to come down or stay the same. I don’t ever see billion dollar nfl contracts for a long long time.
It hasn't yet. Billion dollar player contracts may still be awhile off but player contracts keep increasing across the board. NFL rights more than doubled in 2006-13 from $11.5 billion to $27 billion in 2014-22. 2023-33 is going to pay over $110 billion. Not exactly slowing down. Also with the interest in sports betting, recent legalization in more states is an additional source of revenue for the league through sponsorships and partnerships with the gambling operators that is not going to slow down anytime soon.
Last edited:
Welp, I was wrong Bigly... looks like Mahomes' ego got the better of him and he needed to be paid more than anyone else.. restructured his contract.
Dumb. No matter how good you are, there's still 21 other starters that need to be decent. He's gonna take up 20 to 25% of the team salary cap. It's gonna be tough to win a superbowl when you do that.
Dumb. No matter how good you are, there's still 21 other starters that need to be decent. He's gonna take up 20 to 25% of the team salary cap. It's gonna be tough to win a superbowl when you do that.