re: Why do some care how much Drew makes

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Probably because it eats up so much of the salary cap and forces us to make big sacrifices at other positions of need. My only problem with him is we heard so much about how he was a team first player and was willing to sacrifice to win. Then he demanded to be the highest paid player in the NFL. The holdout hurt the team without Payton here to manage it. When we needed a team first leader the most, ours was missing. Still our QB, and still a great guy, just kind of put him into perspective for me.

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Dipshit.

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Probably because it eats up so much of the salary cap and forces us to make big sacrifices at other positions of need.

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except it actually doesn't.

Cap hit:
2012- $9 million cap hit
2013 - 17.4
2014 - 18.4
2015 - 26.4
2016 - 27.4

While that looks bad, the salary cap is set to drastically increase with the new TV deal being signed in the offseason. Salary cap space ($8 million I think) will roll over to next year

He got fair market value:

Peyton Manning Salary Cap hit

2012: 18 million
2013: 20 million
2014: 20 million
2015: 19 million

--that was for an injured QB

Tom Brady:
2013: 21.8 million
2014: 21.8 million

Aaron Rodgers is going to get a bigger contract than that, then RG3 and Luck will. All the elite teams will have their QB getting paid 100+ million