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Originally Posted by sabotai
IMO, committing 23%+ of your cap every single year for a QB, no matter how important they are, is way too much.
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Sure, in a generic situation, this holds up. But I feel we could (with a little research) put together the "what could the Packers afford with the $35m difference between Rodgers' request and the $15m they'd have to pay for a credible starter?" and it would not be a slam dunk.
Like, if that bundle was framed as: you either have slightly-below-replacement players at their positions to afford the 2x defending league MVP QB, or you get to have (off the top of my head) LB Campbell, CB Douglass, WR Valdez Scantling, and C Lindsley.
If that's the actual math... is it an absolute no brainer that the QB is too expensive, because he costs you that tier of your roster? And yes, this is where the Rams' current blueprint comes into play, not a precise parallel, but the same logic scaled to fit Donald, Ramsey, and now Stafford.