Wow! Who would have thunk such a thing? Oh, me.Making it all the sweeter for the Chiefs, Mahomes actually wanted it that way.
“When I signed my deal, I knew I was going to be pretty set for life, regardless of what the market kind of [dictates],” Mahomes said of his extension last summer. “But you just keep playing. Money is one thing, but when you get those Super Bowl rings, at the end of your career, I think that’s going to be what you look back upon. I think I’ve made enough money from the football field and obviously off of it as well, that it won’t matter at the end of the day.”
I was also argued with tooth and nail that Brady took less. Guess what?
You know? Team friendly? Russ said shit like Fully Guaranteed! Mahomes and Brady moved money around for the good of the team. Who has more rings again?In the 2020 offseason, Mahomes walked down a financial path similar to Brady — highly paid, but unlikely to remain the highest paid for very long.
Interesting. So, you have a QB thinking about how are his weapons going to get paid in Cincy. And one in Seattle that had to be the second highest paid player and THEN bitched about how they spent the rest of the money.That’s six quarterbacks who have exceeded Mahomes in average annual salary and overall guaranteed money. Soon enough (and barring a Mahomes renegotiation), that list will be joined by Burrow, the Los Angeles Chargers’ Justin Herbert and Jacksonville Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence. By the start of the 2024 season, Mahomes could be the 10th highest-paid quarterback in the league.
What’s remarkable about this whole history and economics lesson is that one question has run parallel with it. The singular query that nobody could really answer: Would another quarterback go the Mahomes and Brady route, taking lesser money to free up flexibility to keep elite parts of a team together? Brown certainly seemed to hope so with Burrow last summer. What nobody really knew was whether the Bengals’ quarterback would buy into it.
On Tuesday, we might have gotten a peek at the answer.
While Burrow didn’t reveal the particulars of talks, he made two points clear about his future extension when meeting with the media. First, he knows what he wants out of the deal financially. Second, he has been negotiating with an eye on other extensions that will be coming down the pipeline, including what are expected to be pricey deals for wideouts Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. So much so that he has discussed with Higgins and Chase the goal of keeping the offensive core together.
“Whenever you have guys on the team that need to be paid, that’s always on your mind,” Burrow said Tuesday. “You want that to be a focal point. We’re working to make that happen.”
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