Flacco agrees to a new deal

[manchild98]

according to espn but no terms available yet. He'll sign the deal Monday. But I think it's safe to say it is probably for a ridiculous amount of money.

 

[manchild98]

Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens have agreed to a six-year, $120.6 million contract that will make the quarterback the highest-paid player in NFL history, a source familiar with the deal told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Friday.

The two sides will work on the contract language this weekend, and Flacco is expected to sign the deal Monday in Baltimore, sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.

 

[Mitchrapp]

20m/yr for him? Way overpaid.

 

[sggatecl]

20m/yr for him? Way overpaid.

No kidding. I thought they might overpay him but that's kind of crazy.

 

[mhughes0021]

No kidding. I thought they might overpay him but that's kind of crazy.

he almost makes as much as Stafford now...who has led his team to a total of 0 playoff wins!...how crazy is that?!

 

[manchild98]

The money is so out of control in sports. He makes a shade over 1.25 million PER regular season game.

 

[cheeno]

The money is so out of control in sports. He makes a shade over 1.25 million PER regular season game.

That's a nice game check.

 

[sggatecl]

he almost makes as much as Stafford now...who has led his team to a total of 0 playoff wins!...how crazy is that?!

Makes me anxious to get rid of those retarded contracts from the old rookie pay scale. Only a couple more to go.

 

[zyxt9]

That's over $200,000 per game minute. Roughly ToP is 30 min so he is getting paid roughly $400,000 for every minute of actual work.

Another way to look at it is to figure roughly 30 passes per game, so he makes about $40,000 every time he throws the football, or what many make as their yearly salary.

Of course he still has to pay his agent and the federal government, so he actually won't much at all in reality. ;P

 

[tonyballs]

Terrible deal.

It's what happens when you win a Super Bowl though.....

That thing will be re-structured 5x before it's all said and done anyways..

 

[beez]

Terrible deal.

It's what happens when you win a Super Bowl though.....

That thing will be re-structured 5x before it's all said and done anyways..

^ This but minus terrible deal. It's common practice..remember Eli Manning being the highest paid player in the league? It's lose lose..you don't give your superbowl qb a deal, the fans hate you, it creates a stigma that you won't pay deserving guys and the only way to come out clean is by losing with flacco and winning when he's gone.

OR

You pay him more than he's worth talent wise.

As you pointed out the deal will be retructured without question or he'll be released (unless they're winning titles)

They had to do this. (Especially after what he did in the playoffs.

 

[mhughes0021]

Any of you think Flacco is rethinking this deal? You get a ton of money....buuuuut:

lose kruger
lose ellerbe
probably lose ed reed
probably lose cary williams
ray lewis retires
release bernard pollard

...talk about blowing up a team lol.

 

[schles192]

His cap hit in 2013 is only 6.8 then 14.8 then 14.5, it balloons in 2016 but he will restructure by then. All in all his deal isn't a cap killer.

 

[beez]

His cap hit in 2013 is only 6.8 then 14.8 then 14.5, it balloons in 2016 but he will restructure by then. All in all his deal isn't a cap killer.

Exactly...all of those players released are easily replaced except Pollard imo. Problem is, letting them all go at once means it's going to take a year or 2 to replace them.