The Facts:
Following up on the
ongoing story. ...Brees should send Lions WR Calvin Johnson and agent Bus Cook a case of champagne. Johnson and Cook just combined to give Brees and his agent, Tom Condon, all sorts of ammunition for their upcoming talks with the Saints. That’s because in the spectrum of NFL contracts, it is extremely rare that a star quarterback is outranked in earnings by a player from any other position. Moreover, the difference in pay for elite QBs is usually significant.
Reported by Yahoo! Sports
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
Yahoo's Jason Cole went on to explain that
Johnson’s eight-year, $132 million deal with $53.25 million guaranteed is the type of contract that resets marketplace for all top players. That has a huge impact on Brees, who right now is sitting with a one-year contract offer after being tagged as New Orleans’ exclusive “franchise” player, meaning no other team can offer him a contract. Under those terms, Brees will eventually make somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in 2012. And now GM Mickey Loomis, who has historically been a guy who allows the marketplace to set contract parameters for him, is trying to get a long-term deal done with Brees, maintaining that the market is somewhere in the range of $18 million a year. That’s a nice try, but Cole believes it's easily going to be more than $20 million per year (Brees and Condon are looking for roughly $23 million). The Johnson deal only proves that point. Meanwhile, Brees is unlikely to sign the franchise tender and isn’t likely to report for the start of the team’s offseason program. And his asking price won't be going down.
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