Should We Go After Another QB in Offseason

[sportscurmudgeon]

Two points here:

POINT # !: Someone said that Brunell was being paid like Manning. You must be referring to Archie Manning and his pension from the NFL.

I'll defer to Crazy Canuck here for the exact numbers but I believe that Peyton Manning got a $34M signing bonus in his last deal. The total value of the deal is somewhere north of $100M. Brunell's bonus was about $8M and the total package was probably not worth $34M. Danny Boy has been known to overpay for players, but even he did not bid that high for Mark Brunell.

Eli Manning got a $20M signing bonus with the Giants and something on the order of a $40M total package. Once again, that is more than Brunell got.

So he isn't getting "paid like Manning" and it would have been folly for anyone to believe that he would perform like Peyton Manning this year.


POINT #2: Brees stunk last year and now is having a great year in his "contract year". That is exactly the pattern followed by Brian Griese in Denver and that did not work out very well once he signed and got his big contract. Brees is probably better than Griese but I do not think he is the reincarnation of Johnny Unitas. Someone will overpay for him in the off-season and don't bet against Danny Boy being the one with the drooling wallet.