Stupid QB contracts

Somebody please enlighten yours truly as to why one Kirk Cousins, currently the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, was given such an outrageous, see stupid, contract? The dude's been merely "average" for his whole career. This would include his college days at Michigan State, where he was WAY overhyped.

In the NFL, after being the same "average" for the Washington Redskins, the Vikings, normally a prudent team, signed this clown to a multi-year deal that will pay him $26,000,000 this year, $28,000,000 in 2019, and a whopping $30,000,000 in 2020?

This for a guy with a career record of 32-36? Oops, the Vikes just went down in Seattle on Monday Night Football. Make that 32-37.

What kind of insanity in going on here?

Not to be outdone, the Detroit Lions (granted, widely perceived as being somewhat of a retarded franchise over the decades -- and rightfully so), recently lost whatever little mind they ever had and gave QB Matthew Stafford a long-term deal?

One that will pay him, wait for it, $26,000,000, $29,000,000, $31,000,000, $30,000,000, and $23,0000,000 for the next five years?

This, for a guy that's been playing for a decade and never won a single playoff game? And has a history of choking at critical moments? His local press stooges have dubbed him "Captain Comeback" for sometimes pulling off improbable wins late in games. OK, but if he hadn't played so terribly for the first three quarters of said games, hence the Lions so often falling behind, this wouldn't be an issue.

All those mega-million lottery winner numbers for a guy who's record is 65-76?

Say what?

Sure, Mattie S, his lovely wife, and twin young-uns are happy. They'll have a bazillion dollars guaranteed coming in for the next several years.

But what could the Lions' "brain trust" -- and I use that term in the loosest way possible -- have possibly been thinking? They painted themselves into a salary cap financial corner just to lock this loser up until he's too old to play anymore? Huh?

Though now in his "prime", Stafford seems to be regressing. He's getting worse instead of better.

Even if the Lions' front office emerged from their collective coma, they couldn't trade him. No other team is going to touch that mega-contract for a career C- quarterback. So they're stuck with him. As are the Motown gridiron fans. A local scribe recently wrote Stafford could throw several interceptions every game, including a few "pick-sixes", lose them all -- and he'd STILL start for the Lions. That speaks volumes for them not having a young guy in the wings, supposedly learning, that can take over, which will have to happen eventually anyway.

It's not only short-sighted, but yes, incredibly stupid on the team's part.

Finally, there's the stupidity of some football pundits. They're already talking about Russell Wilson, currently the QB of the Seattle Seahawks, as a "lock" for the Hall of Fame?

Shut up. He's been pretty good, is mobile, and has a halfway decent arm. And yep, he's even won a Super Bowl.

But he also choked another Super Bowl win away in the waning seconds by attempting an incredibly bone-headed pass giving Tom Brady and the New England Patriots a(nother) gift Vince Lombardi trophy. The Pats didn't win that game. Wilson and the S-Hawks snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.

True, a QB can't win a Super Bowl, or any other game, single-handedly. But Wilson has always had a lot of help. An unheralded but really good offensive line to protect him. A feature running back or two. Excellent receivers to throw to. And let's not forget about the "Legion of Boom" on the Seattle defense that so limited opponents. At least until recently, when it broke up for various reasons.

Let's have the Russell Wilson with a bust in Canton conversation maybe five years from now, depending on how he plays during that time. If he even stays healthy -- never a given.

But he's nowhere near Hall-worthy just yet.

So there you have Kirk, Matthew, and Russell. Not exactly on a par with Abraham, Martin, and John (at least one of which was a great American hero, the other two -- maybe not so much as things have turned out), as once famously crooned by Dion -- but the former are making a whole lot more money via.....

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