Assessing the state of the QB market
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The QB market continues to make headlines with Trevor Lawrence’s new deal. Robert Mays is joined by Brad Spielberger, Director of Football Administration at Grand Central Sports Management, to break down these massive contracts. They dive into the deals and what we can really learn from them. They also talk about no trade clauses, upcoming contracts for Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.7 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's just peek behind the curtain. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm sitting there. I can't remember what day it was. I think it might have been Wednesday night. I'm on the couch with my wife. We're watching TV. And I opened my phone and I open Twitter. And I'm like, oh, damn it. And I see the Trevor Lawrence contract. And we had just recorded a show with Dan Orlovsky about the considerations the jag should be weighing about whether or not they should pay Trevor Lawrence and how much. |
| 0:46.3 | So I'm going back and forth. |
| 0:48.4 | God, do we run the conversation with Dan? |
| 0:51.1 | Do we have to do something immediately to react to this? |
| 0:52.1 | She's looking over me. |
| 0:53.3 | She's like, what's wrong with you? |
| 1:11.8 | It's 9 p.m. This is how the sausage gets made on the content side of things. So we ultimately decided to run the conversation with Dan. If you guys want to go check it out, I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed his perspective. But I also wanted to talk about the Trevor Lawrence contract and not just about that deal specifically, but about what it means in the broader landscape of quarterback deals. Obviously, we got the Jared Gough contract earlier |
| 1:16.8 | this summer. We now have the Trevor Lawrence contract, which is equal to Joe Burrow and |
| 1:21.0 | A.A.V. But has some newances to it. And we have some that have not yet been signed, but are |
| 1:26.1 | probably going to. The Tuatagvaloa contract, the Jordan Love contract, what's going to happen with Dak Prescott? |
| 1:31.6 | So to help me kind of sort through the current quarterback market and the current quarterback |
| 1:36.3 | market landscape and where things might be headed after the Lawrence deal, we had on our old |
| 1:41.2 | buddy, formerly a PFF, now actually on the agent and contract side at |
| 1:45.8 | Grand Central Sports Management, our friend Brad Spielberger, who does a great job of just putting |
| 1:50.4 | this stuff in digestible terms. |
| 1:52.2 | So we talked about the Lawrence deal, but we talked about a bunch of stuff. |
| 1:55.7 | How teams navigate these sorts of contracts, the best way to do that, how much length and cash flow and your |
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