The more you hear from Joe Flacco's agent, the clearer it becomes the quarterback's camp is aiming to break the bank in working out a new contract with the Baltimore Ravens. Joe Linta said Tuesday that his client should be the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL, and reiterated those comments Wednesday on SiriusXM NFL Radio. "Well, is he gonna be? I don't know. Should he be? Absolutely," Linta said. Linta praised the Ravens' front office as "pros," and downplayed the notion of a pending conflict with the team, but when asked about a target number for Flacco, he pointed to Peyton Manning's five-year, $96 million contract with the Denver Broncos, which includes $18 million guaranteed. "(Flacco's) a guy who's pretty darn good in the first five years of his career, and has 11 more years to get to Peyton Manning, yet some of his accomplishments already match Peyton in terms of wins, playoff wins, Super Bowl wins and those kinds of things," Linta said. Some of Flacco's accomplishments fall far short Peyton's, of course, but Linta believes a deal can be struck by March for his Super Bowl-winning client. "Yeah, absolutely," he said. "Like I said, this is not -- we're not bringing troops home from Afghanistan here. You know what the market is, you know what the guy's just done." Source: NFL.com
the agent is gonna be on 105.7 The Fan here at 9:40 pm et. here is a link for the station: 1057 The Fan « CBS Baltimore
He might be the highest paid player in the league when his deal is done. That could last 5 minutes, a day, 2 days, a year. When all is said and done, that deal will probably wind up being around the low teens or so in the league...which if the Ravens are smart, that's where they would want it to be. They just don't want Flacco to be the highest paid player 2-3 years from now...then they'd be over paying. It's the natural progression.
Ravens are in the worst possible position for this. No leverage at all. :icon_cheesygrin: Superbowl MVP, possibly the best playoff performance in NFL history, and 11 or so other teams looking for a QB. And some of them HAVE to spend money somewhere to reach the new salary floor. Good timing for Joe.
that's probably what they should do. pay out the nose for one year, let his true worth ($12-$15 mill/yr) become apparent again next season and avoid giving him $20 mill a year long-term. Eli Manning was given a long-term contract worth about $15 mill a year after his first SB win. That's about where Flacco should be because the cap numbers for the teams haven't really been going up for a while.
I'll take a jab at this...Im gonna say he gets 6 yr 115 million, 60 million guaranteed. Huge signing bonus, low cap numbers the first couple years and pick up from there Oh and here's why we cant do the tag, the regular tag is out of the question now because i think someone would offer him a deal that would be so prohibitive in the first couple years that we either couldnt match or we'd have to gut our some to do. The exclusive tag protects from that but it's over 20 mill which means goodbye to all our free agents and we'd have to restructure some guys(Oz doesnt like to do)and release some people. Joe and his agent have great leverage, they have to get a deal done to keep some of the other guys we have as free agents. I dont think this will drag out very much because we had a deal in place to pay him top 5 QB money before and they choose to sort of risk it because they thought he could get more. Perfect gamble with how he played once Caldwell took over.
