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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yup. It's gonna be an Andrew Luck situation. Ownership will just come out and say "Hey, we're gonna make the kid the highest paid player in football; it'll get done when its time to get it done"
My concern is the other side of the Luck equation - not that we don't keep him (we will), but that as he gets deeper into his career, the cry of 'we can't waste the Mahomes years....' will get louder and louder as the rest of the young core starts to leave via FA.
Win one in the next 3 seasons and none of those cries amount to anything. That's the Russell Wilson model. Few Seahawks fans are that broken up about anything given that they won a championship with him. Personally I don't exactly share that viewpoint, but I understand it.
There will be legitimate panic if this team hasn't been to a SB by the end of the 2020 season and it won't be out of fear of losing Mahomes. It will be out of fear of missing your best window to put a truly elite team around him.
But we're gonna file all that under 'shit I'll worry about when I'm 40' because there's time yet...
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Mmmmmm ...
Clearly, people typically base their projections on historical precedent, Mr. DJ's left nut.
But I think the league is changing far more than most fans realize.
The internet has changed the profit model, the players are changing the pay-scale model, and the rules have changed "how the game is played". (And I think they've even started using full-time officials, have they not? At least some of them, I think.)
Anyway, given that amount of sea-change, I don't think that prior templates apply as easily or as well.
The Chiefs franchise (read; Hunt) rewrote the book on how to change the NFL back in the day. I think we may well see the same thing happen again.
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