OT- Jimmy Garoppolo contract

[superjohn]

Recently I haven't followed the NFL like I used to but what the heck is going on with contracts? I hear Garoppolo is good but the money is insane for someone who hasn't proven they are a star. Several other qb's are about to get bigger deals. The league is floundering, where is all the money coming from?

Reports: 49ers, Jimmy Garoppolo agree to record-breaking five-year deal

 

[polycom]

ESPN, FOX, Facebook, Amazon, CBS & NBC.

 

[UCDaveD]

The league is floundering? What are you talking about? Fox just paid $660M for 11 Thursday Night Football games/year. By comparison, CBS & NBC were paying $450M for 10 games/year.

 

[superjohn]

The league is floundering? What are you talking about? Fox just paid $660M for 11 Thursday Night Football games/year. By comparison, CBS & NBC were paying $450M for 10 games/year.

Yep, my bad. The NFL has never been healthier, ratings have been incredible.

 

[UCDaveD]

Yep, my bad. The NFL has never been healthier, ratings have been incredible.

A ratings decline on its own does not equal "floundering".

Seven of the top 10 and 37 of the top 50 TV broadcasts of 2017 were NFL games.

By chance do you happen to know how network television ratings have done as a whole this year? Down about an equal number to the NFL ratings. Interesting.

Yet media companies continue to throw record cash at the NFL. Oh to be in such peril!

 

[whaler11]

He’s a star.

 

[methodology]

He’s a star.

Brady was scared of him and went straight to Kraft to get him traded

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I guess the Patriots wouldn't have wanted to put the franchise tag on him, but with a 40 year old QB in Brady, he certainly seemed like the heir apparent.

 

[8893]

I haven't followed the NFL as vigorously this season due to the state of the Giants, but it seems to me that a lot of franchise QBs for franchises that are used to stability at that position are at or near the sunsets of their careers, and it's going to be a seller's market for the top handful of younger QBs for the next several seasons.

 

[superjohn]

A ratings decline on its own does not equal "floundering".

Seven of the top 10 and 37 of the top 50 TV broadcasts of 2017 were NFL games.

By chance do you happen to know how network television ratings have done as a whole this year? Down about an equal number to the NFL ratings. Interesting.

Yet media companies continue to throw record cash at the NFL. Oh to be in such peril!

If you don't think the NFL has problems I don't know what to tell you.

 

[superjohn]

Brady was scared of him and went straight to Kraft to get him traded

I agree with you and whaler it's just so much money for a guy who hasn't actually proven it yet.

 

[UCDaveD]

If you don't think the NFL has problems I don't know what to tell you.

I disagree with your assertion that the league is "floundering."

 

[Huskyforlife]

If you don't think the NFL has problems I don't know what to tell you.

Not with their money.

 

[manbyrd]

As a 49ers fan, I like the deal, it's absurd but that's where we the market is for QBs. He's got Belichick's endorsement and he beat two playoff teams (not counting the Rams who were resting their starters). Plus Shanahan had probably the best look of all HC's at Kirk Cousins and Jimmy and the 49ers chose Jimmy. Though I fully expect the ownership to f this up somehow, but if he can beat seattle a couple times in the next two years I'll be happy.

 

[HuskyHawk]

He’s legit. If you had any doubt, he joined the second worst team in the league and they never lost again. They beat several good teams in that stretch. It was a great deal for the 49ers.

 

[champs99and04]

Yep, my bad. The NFL has never been healthier, ratings have been incredible.

You know that's not how this works. Otherwise, the schools in the NBE would be more broke than UConn.

 

[ZenConn]

Good for him. Getting that kinda coin with less than 10 games under his belt, I cant imagine the money he'll get after taking the 49ers to the playoffs for the next five years.

 

[UConnNick]

Let's wait and see what happens when the rest of the league gets a chance to study some game film and throws some defensive wrinkles at him.

 

[Bryan Lord]

Oh you're talking about the "failing nfl". Ratings disaster, trust me .

 

[EBonz30]

Recently I haven't followed the NFL like I used to but what the heck is going on with contracts? I hear Garoppolo is good but the money is insane for someone who hasn't proven they are a star. Several other qb's are about to get bigger deals. The league is floundering, where is all the money coming from?

Reports: 49ers, Jimmy Garoppolo agree to record-breaking five-year deal

Garoppolo is a beast, Kraft & Brady really messed up the Pats future.

The real question is who is gonna be better and the face of the NFL moving forward Carson Wentz or Jimmy Garoppolo???

 

[Windsorlocks]

Ron Borges of the Boston Herald reported Thursday night that Brady is demanding the same amount of $$$. But, looks like Borges was way off....

Source Denies Report Tom Brady Will Hold Out For Jimmy Garoppolo Money

 

[UC313]

Smells like the Chiefs deal they gave to Matt Cassell. Those were some tough years, lemme tell ya.

 

[StoweD210]

Ron Borges of the Boston Herald reported Thursday night that Brady is demanding the same amount of $$$. But, looks like Borges was way off....

Source Denies Report Tom Brady Will Hold Out For Jimmy Garoppolo Money

It's not like the Boston Herald to run an unverified and inaccurate negative story about the Patriots.

 

[huskysupporter]

If the 49ers didn’t pay him, another team would have. He put up great numbers with zero weapons around him. I think it was a smart move.

 

[Adios]

The Patriots didn't have a choice. As proven by this contract, it was either trade Brady or trade Garoppolo.