NFL Team Strategies: Risks in Not Paying Quarterbacks

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00:00There are certainly risks if you are the Lions and don't pay Jared Goff, Dolphins and don't

00:14pay Tua Tunga-Vailoa, Niners and do not pay Brock Purdy.

00:20There are certainly risks if you make that decision, right?

00:26The grass is not always greener on the other side, but when you are the Miami Dolphins

00:35and you pay Tua Tunga-Vailoa, you are now not only locked in to Tua, but you do lose

00:44a level of flexibility that having a quarterback on a rookie deal can bring.

00:52When it comes to Tua, where does he rank in the landscape of quarterbacks?

00:58Comfortably outside the top seven, right?

01:03He is not what I don't think, I really do not think anybody would argue to as a top

01:08seven quarterback in the league, right?

01:11Is he a top 12 quarterback in the league?

01:15Not so sure.

01:17What you then kind of have is a conversation of, is Tua a round league average, right?

01:23There does come a point in the tier where everybody is kind of mixed, but if you as

01:28the Miami Dolphins have a game changer in Tyreek Hill, another high level wide receiver

01:35in Jalen Waddell, and a brilliant offensive mind in Mike McDaniel, is there not a desire

01:44to take a risk with a young, cheap rookie quarterback and attack it that way?

01:54And what seemingly the answer is from these teams is no, we are going to be risk averse.