If we're looking for someone to blame on how much it costs to keep a superstar QB, look at the team themselves, and what they're willing to pay. No sense blaming the players for getting what they can out of each contract because that's the name of the game.
The controversy that comes with each elite QB is a reality, simply because teams make them out as "faces of the franchise," and treat them like they're a living god. Then we expect them to just sit back, while teams start to transition away from them, and act like they're pretty much meaningless to them now?
Then there's little comments made by the players, and the media bends it out of proportion. Before you know it, we have a full blown, "He said - she said," moment. Then the fans come down on it. Some think the QB is being mistreated, others think the guy is an ungrateful SOB who should shut up and continue to enjoy that bloated contract he somehow wheedled out of the team. Of course, a lot of them forget that back when the guy was younger, and a real stud, they said he should get anything he wants, because he's gonna lead them to the promised land.
Funny how things work out. It keeps happening, over and over in the NFL. Nobody learns a darned thing, and the QB salaries keep exploding.
Here's Patrick Mahomes contract. There are those that say it's a good deal. Others say it's a trap. It depends on where he's at in a year or two, or if he's injured. A lot of things can happen over 10 years.
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