None of the top-6 most highly paid NFL QBs made the playoffs this year!

[True Dough]

Crazy stat:

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Either they're overpaid or they're surrounded by a lack of talent. Make your argument.

*Garoppolo gets an asterisk because he went down early with a season-ending knee injury.

[More_Cowbell]

1. I wondered where Tom Brady was; 43 NFL players make higher salaries

Of course he's made plenty of money and makes plenty more in endorsements, but I know that in the past he's lowered his salary in order to free up money for other teammates (on whose success he depends, too).

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/8/9/17671350/tom-brady-contract-2018-serious-bargain-blake-bortles-ahahahah

[dem4decades]

2. Maybe his wife gives him an allowance?

[True Dough]

3. Ow!!

That burns!

[CentralMass]

4. From an article in May, he has made about 197.2 million in the NFL over the nearg two decades that

https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/sports/tom-brady-net-worth-14595966

He has restructured his contract to reduce his salary numerous times to make salary cap room for other players although he has had some signing bon uhhuses to compensate.

[unblock]

5. To me this make prefect sense.

I know it doesn't really work this way in practice, but theoretically I would expect the teams that can promise a quarterback great coaching and great receivers and a great offensive line and great prospects of winning a super bowl would not need to pay its quarterbacks as much as a team that needs to build up.

For a losing team, paying extra for a top-notch qb might be a way to attract the other elements of a winning team.

[comradebillyboy]

6. The greatest QB/player of all time and I am a Cowboy fan...

[JayhawkSD]

7. Well in the case of Derek Carr...

He has Jon Gruden as a coach.