The Key To Roster Construction in the NFL

The Domonique Foxworth Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Domonique and Charlie start with a brief debate and criticism of the top 10 QB list that was voted on by NFL execs and coaches. Then, they dive into rookie wage scale contracts and explain why there are better ways for NFL teams to construct their rosters than building around a rookie QB. 0:00 Welcome back to The Domonique Foxworth Show 1:21 Critiquing the league-wide NFL top 10 QB poll results 8:59 How the rookie wage scale changed the NFL 14:19 What can rookies do to choose their destination? 17:43 Why building around a rookie QB isn't the best strategy 34:14 Who has benefited most from the rookie wage scale? 39:48 Has the rookie wage scale been effective? 44:10 Is there incentive for QBs to take shorter deals? 46:43 Final thoughts on how to build a team in the NFL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	Off top in the summer of 2010, Peyton Manning was believed to be the best quarterback in
0:37.3	NFL history.
0:38.0	He had four MVP's and was guaranteed $48 million.
0:43.6	Sam Bradford was drafted and signed the contract where he was guaranteed $50 million.
0:49.9	This is the Dominique Foxworth Show.
1:01.7	Welcome to the Dominique Foxworth Show.
1:06.1	Yeah, that off top was, I mean, it's going to lead into a lot of things that we're going to talk about on the show.
1:07.0	But before we get into that, I got to tell on you.
1:10.0	You called me in order to complain
1:12.9	about lists, which is something that people do. I think Jeremy Fowler did his annual list where he
1:19.5	pulls front office people and comes out with a quarterback ranking. And every year we get upset about
1:25.5	it. And you called me making fun of people who are getting upset about the list only to then go into your complaints about the list.
1:34.5	I need to admit something.
1:36.5	I obviously just wanted to talk about the list, but I know that you'll think you'll think less of me if I pitch it as do you want to talk about this list.
1:45.0	Okay.
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