The six highest paid QBs in the nfl all missed the playoffs this year

[gbgary]

Are you seriously saying you would want it otherwise?

as i said last year before the draft the time to make the rebuild decision was then. i said offer Rodgers to cle. i said if they bite you draft Mayfield and Bradley Chubb plus plus. you have your qb and edge. you drop Clay, maybe Cobb, but no need to dump any other salaries. no cap issues for 5 years to get whoever you want. it didn't happen. they did the polar opposite with the insane extension. we have what we have now.

i'm not anti-Rodgers but i was anti-extension because of the circumstances. i am anti-Packers sucking. i am thinking long term.

[Vincenzo]

ouch

proof that you actually do need other players on a team to win games

[url]https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2018/12/30/highest-paid-quarterbacks-arent-making-the-playoffs-rodgers-garoppolo-cousins-ryan/[/u

maybe some GM someday will realize that you just can't pay QB's half of the salary cap

This is interesting to say the least!

[texaspackerbacker]

Just to get this straight, at the end of 2016 we had 70 players on the roster including IR and practice squad

Of those 70 we now have 20 of those players left on the team. We have turned over 70+% of our roster in two years.

It's a matter of quality more than of quantity. Who did we get rid of that was all that good? Nelson? Clinton-Dix? Randall? I'd even argue against either of them being all that special. I'm talking "fire sale" type rebuilding. We haven't done that, and we damn well better not start now.

[gbgary]

It's a matter of quality more than of quantity. Who did we get rid of that was all that good? Nelson? Clinton-Dix? Randall? I'd even argue against either of them being all that special. I'm talking "fire sale" type rebuilding. We haven't done that, and we damn well better not start now.

there's no reason to do that now. the biggest salary dump we have, other than Rodgers, is Adams. that isn't happening. no one else would bring a first round pick not even Clark. we don't have the talent to do such a thing.

[Vincenzo]

there's no reason to do that now. the biggest salary dump we have, other than Rodgers, is Adams. that isn't happening. no one else would bring a first round pick not even Clark. we don't have the talent to do such a thing.

Nick Perry belongs in a dumpster fire, I’d toss whatever I could when it comes to that POS.

[gbgary]

Nick Perry belongs in a dumpster fire, I’d toss whatever I could when it comes to that POS.

forgot about him. he's gone.

[pbmax]

yes the market is the market but why bump the market 10+%, 2 years early, on a qb coming off a throwing arm injury, who's 35 year's old, for 6 more years? your team's best players all got old at the same time and it's in need of a rebuild...badly in need of a rebuild. they should have waited. after this year do you think they'd still offer $33.5m/yr with a year left on his contract? nope. they'd see what cousins gave min for 30 and laugh. they'd have said "the current market has topped out. let's do 4 at $25 fully guaranteed. take it or leave it. we've got a rebuild to do."...if they were smart.

Packers flat out refused to do fully guaranteed or percentage of cap deal. Wanted traditional pay as you go all the way.

[pbmax]

Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar

Highest rate of off-target throws, 2018
1. Josh Allen 23.7%
2. Sam Darnold 20.4%
3. Tom Brady 20.1%
4. Aaron Rodgers 19.9%
5. Matthew Stafford 19.4%

Excludes throwaways

[Source: ESPN]

[gbgary]

Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar

Highest rate of off-target throws, 2018
1. Josh Allen 23.7%
2. Sam Darnold 20.4%
3. Tom Brady 20.1%
4. Aaron Rodgers 19.9%
5. Matthew Stafford 19.4%

Excludes throwaways

[Source: ESPN]

and Rodgers led the league in T/A's i believe...figure that in and he'd probably be at the top of the list.

[Pugger]

top 15 paid qb's

he's still a very good qb but his deal was horrible!

No, the horrible deal is the one the stupid Vikings gave Kirk Cousins.

[Pugger]

Brady’s the GOAT, and he’s willing to sign “hometown discount” contracts b/c his MILF wife makes more frogskins annually than he does - and he didn’t have to sign no prenup contract.

Rodgers doesn't have a wife who is worth more than he is.

[Pugger]

there's no reason to do that now. the biggest salary dump we have, other than Rodgers, is Adams. that isn't happening. no one else would bring a first round pick not even Clark. we don't have the talent to do such a thing.

Clark is more highly thought of than you are suggesting.

[Pugger]

forgot about him. he's gone.

With any luck....

[Upnorth]

I really don't care what a qb makes in any given year, but I do care what they count against the cap.

https://overthecap.com/position/quarterback/2018/

So the 5th place cap qb is andrew luck. 4th is Joe flacco, who is a backup at this point. But if you get rid of Garapallo, the difference between the 2nd highest (Matt Stafford at 26.5 Mill) and Drew Brees (tied 6th at 24 mill) is 2.5 million. So not much, 1.5ish percent, or mountain, meet mole hill that promotes clicks.
HOmetown discount superhero to the salary cap Tom Brady saves 4.5 mill, which helps, but I believe isn't as impactful as it is made out to be. Unless you get really geeked up about 1.2% difference...

[texaspackerbacker]

Good Post and Good Link. So Aaron Rodgers ranks 14th in salary against the cap? Very Interesting. That ought to shut up some of the whiners and detractors.