OR keep him with no extension and tag him twice. OR, even with a great season, wait to extend until he is actually in a contract year. No hurry here, keep your cards close.
IMO a good year from Goff this fall just warrants another year for him to prove it. If he doesn’t play good this season then we move on somehow.
We have to make sure this year isn’t a fluke before giving him the “franchise” label. If he plays well 2 years in a row, then that’s probably all I need to see to hand over the contract extension, but I don’t even want to think about extending him until I see franchise QB play out of him for the next 2 seasons.
I don’t want to have him play well this year, then extend him, and then find out that this year was the fluke good year and then be tied to his new bad contract.
I’d wait. Lions have this year + 2 more + tag option. I hated the Rams contract with him coming off the superbowl even as a fan. It was just so limited when they still had 2 years left back then.
Really, it’s just because we have him wrapped up now for 5 years if we choose. In the end I hope he gets paid plenty, because it means he was our guy all along.
Another angle of this is that I believe hes quite expensive in 2023 so if they extend him they could probably lower his cap hit and give us more flexibility for a big run….
Obviously, this all only matters if he has a good year and looks like our QB of the future…
If Goff is extended at any point before the 2024-25 season I will be pissed. I just can’t see this guy as a QB you can commit to long term at this point. One season isn’t going to change that for me personally. Now if he shows enough to again be our starter in 2023, then takes us to the playoffs and wins a game, then I can probably live with an extension.
I’m really hoping we are adding our QB of the future in next years draft. Regardless of the upcoming season Goff has.
Yes to all the above . . . if he put up those numbers this year, we’d probably be looking at $45M per year on an extension and maybe it would look something like this:
Signing
Signing/
Base
Roster
Total
Cash
Bonus
Salary
Year
Option
Salary
Bonus
Bonuses
Paid
Amortization
Cap Charge
2021
20,000,000
5,650,000
-
-
25,650,000
5,000,000
10,650,000
2022
-
10,650,000
15,500,000
15,500,000
26,150,000
5,000,000
31,150,000
2023
40,000,000
1,300,000
-
-
41,300,000
13,000,000
14,300,000
2024
25,000,000
2,000,000
-
27,000,000
19,250,000
21,250,000
2025
-
36,000,000
-
-
36,000,000
14,250,000
50,250,000
2026
-
38,000,000
-
-
38,000,000
14,250,000
52,250,000
2027
-
40,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
45,000,000
14,250,000
59,250,000
Total
85,000,000
133,600,000
20,500,000
20,500,000
239,100,000
85,000,000
239,100,000
$135M/3yr extension ($45M APY). 2023 and 2024 would be guaranteed and 2025 would be essentially guaranteed. You’d drop the cap hits by $16M (2023) and $10M (2024).
First off- I love Goffs attitude and personality, and can’t stand cousins… so it’s not quite the same-
That said with a decent D and run game in 19’- the Vikes went to the playoffs… the last 2 years they ranked 23-24 or worse in OL and D… mid pack rushing they were just under .500…… a lot like Stafford in Detroit in years with no help.
QB is a severely overrated position when it comes to “play making” … similar to goalie. Give a really good goalie a clean crease, and zero breakaways and he probably wins a lot and allows few goals- give the same goalie a bunch of re-directs in front of the net and 2-1 breaks and fans will complain-
Goff is likable, a leader, and more than talented enough- had Goff played with the cast Stafford had, he likely would have won a ring too…. He almost won one against better opponents and with a lesser cast
Ideally, he plays well enough that we let him play out his final two years on his contract. If he doesn’t, I hope he still plays well enough that a QB struggling team might we willing to trade for him and we can go get a young Franchise QB.
Dudes getting that $40M cheese are mobile running QBs though…3 years may increase the AAV, sure. But man, I’d like to see it closer to 3/$110…but I’m just a cheap ass…