Stafford 41.7 Guaranteed

Let the man pay his own damn plane ticket. THIS is why we should have a rookie salary cap!

dude...it would be pretty fricking sweet to be him right now...42 mil guaranteed and to a team with nowhere to go but up...I'm sure you could get some bad arse lake house or something outside of that shitty city

+2 ticket prices are just going to continue rising

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dude...it would be pretty fricking sweet to be him right now...42 mil guaranteed and to a team with nowhere to go but up...I'm sure you could get some bad arse lake house or something outside of that shitty city

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It's sweet in that they can't really get worse unless something bad happens to Calvin Johnson.

However, if Stafford gets in this year, he's going to look like the backup QB from Necessary Roughness who hides behind the ref and yells "Blow the whistle! Blow the whistle!" because he has little to no protection.

(Backus needs to go from the LT position, which is why I thought they should have grabbed Jason Smith or Eugene Monroe instead.

The QB crop next year's also *much* better than this one, so if they ended up in the top 5, they would have had a good chance at Sam Bradford or Colt McCoy.)

That's a ridiculously large contract; I didn't expect the guaranteed money to be anywhere close to that, especially in light of the current economic conditions. He better hope they get him an OT with their other first round pick. He already has one of the best receivers in the game to throw to and a decent running back. Of course, they have no defense whatsoever, but one step at a time.

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+2 ticket prices are just going to continue rising

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Rookie salary cap aint gonna stop that

Let me put it this way... there's only three QBs considered to be decent prospects this year. I don't see Stafford or Sanchez as being superstars and I'm not sold on Freeman at all.


If I were them, I'd rather grab a bookend left tackle this year in Smith or Monroe, firm up the rest of the holes, then pick up a QB they can protect next year instead of having Stafford be a $70 million pinata.

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dude...it would be pretty fricking sweet to be him right now...42 mil guaranteed and to a team with nowhere to go but up...I'm sure you could get some bad arse lake house or something outside of that shitty city

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frick that, for 42 million you could buy detroit

but is 42 million gonna break the 'curse of Bobby Layne' that SI was so big on a month or two ago?

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THIS is why we should have a rookie salary cap!

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Did you say that when Russell got 60 million guaranteed?

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JR got around 32mil guaranteed. Matt Ryan got 35mil guaranteed

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Both of these guys DON'T deserve that much!!! None of these 1st picks should get dick until they prove themselves.