The Jaguars’ quarterback knows he has “the full faith and belief of the organization” as he heads into his fourth season. Plus, notes on David Shaw, Rhamondre Stevenson, Matthew Stafford, the Sunday Ticket lawsuit and more.
And, yes, that’s even with all the yet-to-be-realized expectations weighing on the Jacksonville Jaguars’ quarterback. And with the 1–5 finish to last year, too.
“So I’ve experienced all those elements of it, and I understand how this game works. The NFL is just different. It’s a long season; it really is about who’s playing best in December, January, February; not September, October, November. You have to be playing your best at the right time, the end of the year. I think I have a better perspective of all of that. I’d say that’s the biggest thing.”
“To put it out there, put it on paper, that I have the full faith and belief of the organization, for them to pay me like a top quarterback in the league, and to sign a long-term deal here, and put that faith and trust in me, feels really good. And to be backed by Mr. Khan and Trent and Doug and all the people that are involved in making that decision, that feels as good as anything. Obviously, the money is awesome, too, but it’s the respect, and feeling that I’m really backed by the team.
“To be honest, I believed I could do this, and here, for the last few years. But I wouldn’t say this is something I’ve necessarily thought about more than that. Ever since I got here to Jacksonville, I knew I wanted to take this team farther than it’s gone before, and I wanted to make this a great organization. I wanted to be a key piece of that.”While we’re here, there is a real difference between Lawrence’s contract, and the one Burrow got a year ago.
If both guys, for argument’s sake, sign third deals with two years left on these deals, Lawrence will have $104.3 million left unpaid of the $275 million in new money on this one, while Burrow will have $91.03 million left from the same number. Months later, Shaw expressed to Paton how he had an interest in working in personnel in the league. That conversation progressed naturally, and over the past four months or so, the discussion about Shaw joining the team became real. It didn’t hurt that Payton also knew Shaw pretty well—the two actually worked together on Ray Rhodes’s Philadelphia Eagles offensive staff in 1997.
Stevens brought a coach’s perspective to building the Celtics. The hope is that Shaw can do the same for Payton and Paton in Denver. And if it happens, it could be a game changer for more people than just the guys working for the Broncos.I don’t mind Rhamondre Stevenson getting $9 million per year in new money from the New England Patriots at all.
And then, if you want to throw this in, there are also the good vibes you get from paying one of your own drafted-and-developed centerpieces. “You’re talking about player safety, but how do you have player safety when you add a game?” Steelers lineman James Daniels added in that story. “If they were worried about player safety, it would take away games, but it’s not about player safety, it’s about money and extra games—an extra prime-time game—that brings millions of dollars to the NFL, millions of dollars to cities everywhere. I understand it from both sides.
Essentially, the rule allowed for teams to sign their own free agents at an amount up to a maximum salary, so long as that player was with the team for at least three years. The Rams then took the unusual measure of ripping up the remaining three years on his contract and replacing them with a three-year deal. That took his number from $55 million over those three years to $95 million, adding $40 million in new money with no new term.
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