ESPN put out a story on contracts that were the gold standards of awful (I guess that makes them fools gold) and of course, Jimmy Garoppolo clocks in at No. 1. We’ve gone over this numerous times already, Fooch even talked about it Friday. I want to chime in now.
I have a simple question to anyone who questions the Garoppolo contract: What was the alternative?
Two things have been made clear: Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract was the largest for any quarterback in NFL history and in a matter of weeks, that was no longer the issue when Matt Ryan got paid.