Saints at a crossroads

TribuneUK said

Well to be fair I did say:

And I also explained that the team that finds a good one has to re-sign them, because you don't just pop to the shops and pick up another one.

It's actually a fairly horrible dilemma when you get to the point of that second contract, for exactly the reason you mention, if you're not convinced of their quality and if they're worth the market rate. Normally because there's so few other options around and only a few teams are picking high enough in the first round to feel good about a rookie option.

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Ah okay. Yeah, I think we're more on the same page than how I originally interpreted the response.

The real problems occur when you overpay a guy who is NOT the franchise QB. It appears the Rams may have made that mistake with Goff. I fully trust Payton to make the right decision wrt Taysom, and yet if Taysom isn't truly a franchise QB, signing him to a big $ deal will put us in a terrible spot moving forward.

The point about Wilson wasn't that the Seahawks made a mistake in paying him. It's that they had a much larger margin for error when he was on a rookie deal and they could afford to pay big $ to guys around him. Once they had to pay him, the "hack" went away and they were forced to be more precise with their evaluations.