I'mWithDan
"Straight Cash Homie"
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However you are missing the core concept. ANY QUARTERBACK is going to want 25 million/year to be your long term starter at QB. It absolutely doesnt matter if its mickey mouse, case keenum, or Baker mayfield. Yes you might be able to get away with a 1 year rental at 10-15/million a year to go sign whoever. However, the minute you want to commit to them long term you are back to looking at 25+ million/year. So we go back to is Baker mayfield better than Bridgwater/Fitz/Jimmy G long term. yes, emphatically yes. Its not close yes. So whats the point if you are just going to get a worse player for maybe a small savings
Is it your opinion they are worse? Because there's a lot of data that says they are not. Really, Baker has been living off of that middle game sample under Stefanski. But in the aggregate, he's been wholly average. So it is more a question of wether you think Mayfield can consistently reclaim that performance level. His career intimates he probably cannot, as the hallmark has been how up and down his play has been. If he can't reclaim that performance level and sustain it, the scheme and talent we have is generally going to work just as well with a QB you deem to be average.
I also don't think I'm missing the concept here. The Browns have an amazingly friendly QB situation. I am confident that they can get a discount on any of Bridgewater, Fitz, Jimmy G, etc. and I'm confident that discount can be for more than 1 year. The window to win is now.....if you have more confidence that you can get average to above average play from any of those guys, over the next 2 seasons, IMO you move on from Mayfield. Would I be in love with either at QB? I mean no but it is a better alternative than getting in a situation like the Rams got in.....where they were good enough to win but tethered to a QB that was being propped up by the scheme.
This is all obviously worse case scenario, which you described as pay him or he won't be on the roster. If I'm given that choice, today, I'm just moving on.