Would you pay Brock Purdy $55 million a year to be Saints franchise QB? [mod edit]

St. Widge said

They are tearing their team apart anyway. I don't see the point of having a mid-level $55 million AAV QB on a team that has been torn apart. It will make it harder for them to have the money to rebuild and by the time they do rebuild he might not be the QB anyway.

Personally, if I were them I'd look for a young vet free agent or trade for a young vet like Malik Willis or Milton. Then build the team while having more money. But, yes, worst case scenario I'd sign Garoppolo, Flacco, or even Winston before giving Purdy that money for that long.

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That makes less sense for my money.

As simple and unreasonable as it may sound, the name of the game is find your QB. And the state of the market means that when you do, if you can win with him (even if he's not all that great), you eventually have to pay the market rate. There's not really a scenario where you don't keep a guy and end up paying him that rate at some point. He's come due and yes, he probably won't live up to the deal, but he won't be alone in that.

Throwing Purdy away by choice, to flail around hoping one of Willis, Milton etc. turn out to be good enough, just significantly lowers your chances of success in the short to medium term, and even if one of them pans out, by that point you'll end up having to pay *them* the market rate, which by that point will probably be $65m+...