Normally I reserve article aggregation for our daily Coffee and Cigarettes, but Grantland's Bill Barnwell put together such an excellent deep-dive into the Russell Wilson negotiations/situation that I thought it was worth highlighting separately. Also, I happen to agree with most of the main conclusions he comes to along the way.
The "type of contract" thing.
Barnwell notes that in the modern NFL, there are two types of quarterback contracts, the "full-ride, massive-signing-bonus dea" style of deal that the league's top passers have gotten, and the "year-by-year deals" that players like Andy Dalton, Colin Kaepernick, and Ryan Tannehill have gotten.