Originally Posted by
Davii
I always wonder why people say we can't afford an expensive QB and an elite defense. We paid Manning 19 million the Super Bowl year (Yes, ~5 mill of that was incentives), and we were paying this defense that type of money. More actually since Demarcus and TJ are now gone.
Also, if we had an elite QB would we still need to have 25 million/yr wrapped up in two receivers? We have the 5th and 11th highest paid WRs in the league on our team. Can a rookie WR come in and do admirably? Of course, we see it almost every year. So there's, say 7 million, in savings there.
Granted, paying a QB 25/yr makes it more difficult to build a team around them, but we managed to fit Peyton's contract with the elite D we have, there's no reason we can't do it again if John and the rest of the FO can do a good job of managing dead money, etc.