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RamUK
If not, then they overpaid.
Overpaying is when you spend money on something that turns out not to be worth what you spent.
You cannot judge at the time if you paid fair market price for something when it's dictated by future performance.
They overpaid for Suh, in fact they got ripped off by Suh a bit like the Redskins did with Haynesworth.
He has not delivered $19m worth of value every season since he's been there.
Being in Florida I know a fair few Dolphins fans and they have been underwhelmed. The guy doesn't dominate games like Donald does.
It seems that pretty much every post I make you jump in to tell me how wrong I am. I think we have been here before.
No one sits around determining the play by play "value" of players like that. The market decides these things. In 2015,. Russel Wilson signed a typical starting qb 2nd contract. The year before, those contracts for qbs came in at 20 M avg. per year. Wilson signed for just under 22 M avg. per year. In 2017 Derek Carr signed his own starting qb's 2nd contract. His was 25 M avg. per year. Why? He was a starting qb up for a second contract and those go up.
Was Carr "worth" that? Wrong question. It works this way. If Oakland didn;t want to pay Carr 25 M, someone else would. So the 25 M, at the end of the day, represents this---do you want to keep the player? Because if you do, that's what you have to pay him.
As I said, beyond just understanding that, I don't care how owners spend their share of NFL tv contract money. I don't even think it;s realistic when fans sit around asking if XYZ "earned" his contract. I think those kinds of conversations are basically off target and I usually avoid them. The team wants a player or they don't. If they do they pay XYZ. Either that or another team will.That's all I ever see in any of this.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2018 05:17PM by zn.
