Trevor Lawrence Gets Paid
I’ve seen that gif of Scrooge McDuck diving into the sea of gold coins some thousand times online and my first thought whenever I watch it is “That would hurt so fucking much”. Cartoon logic isn’t real and that’s the gag and all that, but seriously…that would hurt. You’d probably die.
Trevor Lawrence got his bag. On a scale of 1 to 10 where a 1 is “Patrick Mahomes being worth every single penny” versus a 10 being “Why did you give Daniel Jones that contract, are you stupid”…Trevor is probably a 5 or 6? He’s been disappointing compared to his draft hype and college career, but he hasn’t been bad. To be honest this felt like a deliberate move to get Trevor paid for now before Tua and Dak make the market get even worse. Dak is especially interesting now, the Dolphins will likely pay Tua his bag but Dallas can’t really afford to give Dak (who could be argued as better than both if you want to) the big deal when he demands it next year. Smart move by the Jaguars.
Is Trevor the future? I don’t see why not. He’s not on the top-tier QB list (well, the second tier, top tier is just Mahomes alone), but he can be argued to be in low B tier comfortably, along with the likes of Tua, Cousins, Dak, Herbert, Hurts, and honestly CJ Stroud already. His first year was terrible but I think we as a football fan society should simply erase the Urban Meyer Jaguars from having a meaningful impact on a players judgement. Urban Meyer could have probably ruined Tom Brady. Trevor’s 2022 was great and he bounced back to reach the second round of the playoffs. Last year is the one that is being argued about. Trevor started out fine but got really bad by the end of the season. However, the man was injured and probably shouldn’t have even been playing in the first place. The injury is the exact moment his play took a nosedive. I remember watching the injury and thinking “whelp he’s done for the year” and then he just kept playing. He should not have been playing.
So really now the question is can he get back to 2022 form. He’s got Christian Kirk, Brian Thomas Jr, Evan Engram, Gabe Davis, and Travis Etienne as his primary weapons, a decent enough bunch. Doug is still a good coach. The good news is that if Trevor goes down this year, the Jaguars will be fine. They have Mac Jones now!
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stay healthy Trevor
I never thought I would see the day when the Cowboys can’t afford to give out a mega contract.
I’m not going to sit here and defend Daniel Jones, but the comparison has been making the rounds more and more lately. Statistically, Trevor Lawrence is Daniel Jones. I know there’s a lot more to it than that, blah blah blah optics. But you can’t convince me Joe Judge was THAT much of a step up from Urban Meyer, and Jones has played most of his career injured, so Lawrence doesn’t get a free pass for that bit, either.
https://stathead.com/football/vs/daniel-jones-vs-trevor-lawrence
I’ve seen that too. I’d rate Jones a contract a point lower than Lawrence(at the time it was signed, obviously lower now) but using him as 10 is just crazy. The one thing I’m looking forward to the most in the post-Jones era is people to stop treating him like we drafted Ryan Leaf.
“Why did you give Daniel Jones that contract, are you stupid”
When the Giants paid Daniel Jones, instead of franchise tagging him, you were arguing that it was a smart move. I think most NYG fans were as deluded as you at the time
My opinion at the time wasn’t so much as it was smart, but not as bad as it looked (which it isn’t, but it’s still bad), because the Giants had no good option. It was pay Jones or let him walk when we were not in a position to replace him with anything better. The biggest mistake the Giants made wasn’t not franchising Jones but not picking up his 5th year option the year before, which came back to put them in the position they were in.
It looks worse in hindsight with how bad he was last year
To be pedantic, the cartoon logic that allows Scrooge McDuck to swim through his money generally only applies to Scrooge and Scrooge alone in-universe (some early installment weirdness in the comic books aside) and it is shown (if infrequently) that diving into a pile of money is painfully impossible for others.
For the animated series, this is lampshaded in the very first episode of the 1987 Ducktales series where Huey, Dewey, and Louie all land painfully on their rear ends when attempting to jump into Scrooge’s money like water after watching him dive in. The 2017 Ducktales series is more explicit, with Scrooge noting that swimming through coins is a specially acquired skill and warning Louie not to dive into his money bin or else he’ll crack his skull open (Louie does acquire this later in the series, none of the other nephews do, though).
*pushes coke bottle glasses back up nose*
this contract exists for two reasons:
1) get him paid before the QB market gets reset with other players mega-contracts like you mentioned.
2) The team around him this year is better than the team last year.
He definitely needs to show that he’s worth it still, but weirdly enough this reminds of the Christian Kirk contract. A guy who has shown flashes where the contract at the time feels like an overpay, but then when he shows up and balls out the contract (minus the Jags tax we have to pay every free agent) looks fine. Our season tanked the minute Trev and Kirk got hurt, and barring a repeat of that I’m feeling really confident going into this year that we’ll be competitive.
and if we crash and burn well at least we ripped the band-aid off now lol
on your 1-10 scale, I think the Browns-Watson contract is about a 45
Peter Griffin learn the hard way as well.
You make me feel old as I grew up loving the Ducktails and Scrooge McDuck diving in his silo of gold.
Can’t even see this meme without hearing the theme song in my head
I still don’t get why NFL contracts seem to solely be determined by “did this player sign a few weeks later than other player?”
Like, why should it matter what Dak and Tua get paid for Lawrench extension? I know it would, but no other sport operates so illogically with extensions.
Dave, what were your thoughts on the Nintendo Direct if you saw it?
Dave it might just be me but “Random” only brings me to “In Defense Of Eagles Fans”, no matter which page I start it on