Under the coach Kyle Shanahan and the managing director John Lynch, it took the 49ers six years to find an answer to the quarter position. Now that they have one, I feel like they were preparing to pay too much.
It is not a pure anti-rock plug. It is a realistic assessment of the market, the salary ceiling and the value of Purdy if it was available to be signed by any other team.
However, none of this really matters. Because the 49ers seem to have voluntarily painted in a corner, while randomly brush an integrated excuse for the upcoming regression.
They would have opened the talks to $ 45 million per year. It’s high for a starter. It indicates a final agreement which begins with a five.
Here is what others indicates that Purdy joins the club of $ 50 million a year: the owner Jed York admitted that Purdy is a Top-10 quarter-arre. The Eagles quarter-Arrière, Jalen Hurts, is currently the tenth breadth-up to $ 51 million a year.
The 49ers would have undergone an “organizational reset”, triggered by follies on other players who may not be up to contracts. This certainly does not sound this way for Purdy.
York treats it as an inevitability, as a subject on which the team has no choice. The quarter-arre obtained a massive contract at the market level. This means that they have to tighten the belt elsewhere. And they say it.
It should not be so. The 49ers have a lever effect. Purdy is under contract for $ 5.3 million this year. The franchise label for the quarter position is currently $ 40.241 million.
The 49ers could do what the cowboys did with Dak Prescott. Squat on the fourth year of his contract, label it once, then pay it or tag him twice, knowing that he will become a free agent after the second label.
Yes, the cowboys finally waited too long to pay Dak. In this case, maybe the 49ers do not wait long enough.
What would Purdy get on the free market? This is a good question. And if the answer is that he would get less than anything that the 49ers seem to prepare to pay him, why do the 49ers are preparing to pay him so much money?
After York admitted that Purdy is a quarter of the top-10 (others would put him in the top-15, at best), York added this qualification: “When you combine him with Kyle and what we have.” Yes, Kyle has a lot to do with that.
If the performance of the first 15 of Purdy is fed by Shanahan’s expertise in the design and call of games, why should the 49ers give Purdy a top 10 contract?
The counter is simple. They had a hard time finding an answer to the position. Jimmy Groppolo finally failed. Trey Lance ignited. And let’s not forget that they transmitted Patrick Mahomes, because Shanahan was waiting for Kirk Cousins.
However, the 49ers now have Mac Jones. The guy that Shanahan wanted the 49ers exchanged until No. 3 in 2021. Why rush to fill the pockets of Purdy with more money than the last choice of draft could never dream when there are options?
And when it is always possible that Purdy’s performances go to the top-20 with the quarters of the list launched by the decision to perhaps give it much more than they should.
We firmly believe that the best players should be paid for the most money. MAHOMES. Josh Allen. Lamar Jackson. Joe Burrow. We also do not believe that Purdy is still in this conversation – and that he could never be.
