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Chris Landry on Trevor Lawrence New Contract · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry talking sec football football in General Money edition of the program. Chris
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  won't to ask you about Trevor Lawrence. Go to the NFL real quick.
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  Treyl Lawrence's contract not shocking that, you know, you say, another quarterback
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  get ate a lot of money. And when you put him up there with
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  the Joe Burrows and uh, you know the excuse me, Deshaun Watson contracts.
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  You look at a lot of these others up there. I mean,
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  he's now right at the tip top your thoughts on that contract. And you
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  know, we were kind of going through this the other day at the top
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  five guys from uh, you know Burrow to uh Trevor Lawrence. You look
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  at Deshaun Watson, you look at you know, some of these others Lamar
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  Jackson, Well, any of these guys ever won a Super Bowls the question.
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  But you know, regardless, Trevor Lawrence in the in that box now
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  he's getting paid big money. Yeah. I think for most people, contracts
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  are the obvious ones. I don't care how many zeros you put behind Patrick
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  Mahomes, people gonna say, oh, yeah, worth it. And you
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  know, even in some degree what Joel Burrow has done, although he in
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  state healthy worth it. It's the guys like Trevor Lawrence that people say,
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  well, hold on, what has he done? Bear? But remember when
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  you do these contracts, when you look at the length of the contract and
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  the value of the league, and where the salary cap is escalating year and
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  in year out, you're not paying for Trevor Lawrence in the same vein as
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  saying, Okay, he's getting paid in the Joe Burrow stratosphere. He's as
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  good as Joe Burrow. That's not what he's saying. You're paying for.
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  What other alternative do you have at quarterback? So, in other words,
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  you don't need to pay They didn't need to be Trevor Lawrence. That okay,
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  you're starting over at the quarterback position. Where do you go? How
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  long does it take to find a guy? So that's what it really means.
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  When God gets that type of contract, it's not how good he is,
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  it's how good he is relative to what your other options are. And
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  it's the newest contract that usually gets the most. And that's all it is.
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  If you line them up, who's the best quarterback? You know,
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  down to the bottom, he would fall below the obvious themes but you know,
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  he would still get very high in terms of what his value is going
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  to be two years from now. It's probably going to be a bargain based
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  upon what somebody else is going to have to pay some other quarterback. If
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  that makes any sense. No, it does.