[Ravens News] Figuring Out A Contract For Ravens QB Joe Flacco Could Be Difficult

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Figuring Out A Contract For Ravens QB Joe Flacco Could Be Difficult

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Posted By: Sweets 02-01-2012 , 10:35 AM	#1

Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun reports Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti provided a timetable for negotiating a new with quarterback Joe Flacco over 10 months ago.. "I would anticipate an extension that starts in 2012," Bisciotti said. "Our goal is to get it done for 2012 for sure." "It's an interesting point in the contract. It's four years completed on a five-year deal. That's usually a time for both parties to assess where it's going," said Andrew Brandt, a former agent and NFL executive who now writes and talks about the business of football for the National Football Post and ESPN. "It's just tough to say whether the Ravens are going to start contract negotiations in earnest. Typically at this stage of a QB's career, this is where they make significant money, in their second contract in their mid-to-late 20s. It will certainly be interesting to see if the Ravens make this a priority. Time will tell." "Certainly Joe and his agent would make the case that the recent quarterback deals were based off of much smaller simple sizes than he's put up, deals like Kevin Kolb and Matt Cassel," Brandt said. "Those all range in the $20 million guarantee and then $10 million average rate. Everything is negotiable but you'd think that the sample sizes is much smaller than what Flacco's done. The other end would be like [the New York Giants' Eli Manning] and [the San Diego Chargers' Phillip Rivers] from 2 1/2 years ago. Those guarantees were in the $35 to 38 million range. That might be another level than certainly what the Ravens were [willing to do]." "The bottom line is I'm not too worried about it either way," said Flacco, who agreed to a five-year, $11.9 million deal that included nearly $18 million in additional incentives after the Ravens drafted him with the 18th overall pick in the 2008 draft. "Do I feel like I deserve one? Yeah. Do I feel like I'm going to get one? Yeah. If I don't get one, is it going to be a huge deal? No, it is what it is. It's not up to me. It's up to me to go out and put our team in the best spot to win football games." In the AFC championship game, Flacco outplayed Tom Brady and threw for 306 yards. The performance capped what was an uneven season for Flacco, who set a career-low in completion percentage and tied a career-high in interceptions, and had his lowest quarterback rating and passing yards since his rookie season.

Source: The Redzone

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02-01-2012, 12:40 PM

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well, he should be making more than someone like Kolb or Cassell but he shouldn't make as much as Eli or Rivers ............... that would just be dumb.

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02-02-2012, 09:58 AM

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i could see it being actually difficult to peg his real value

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