I would not go that far but he sure the heck is not worth Brady and Rogers money. Pay reduction would go à long way in saving the Ravens future.
That's just not how contracts work in the NFL, Crusader, and all you others who are calling for paying Joe less. Joe's contract is signed, sealed, and delivered. The Only way we pay Joe less is if he agrees to it. Tell me, all of you, if your bosses came to you and asked you to take a pay cut so that the company could give what Was your money to someone else, how many of you would say, "sure, I understand. Go right ahead"? And restructuring has gotten us into enough problems already. When are you going to understand that we're paying the going rate for a franchise QB in the NFL now. And you Do realize that if we hadn't paid Joe that, after his MVP Super Bowl win, some other team would have. Just who would be our QB now had we not paid him and he had gone elsewhere? And don't say Tyrod Taylor, because very, very few expected him to have even the level of success that he has, and I think that he still has a lot of proving to do. Just look around the league and count how many teams are in desperate need of a QB and how many would simply Love to have Joe on their roster. We simply didn't have another viable option then and we don't now. Brady and Rodgers are not the only QBs making comparable money to Joe. There are others.
Honestly, i always wondered how it would have been if we never had signed Flacco to that big contract. It would have been a big splash move, but honestly with the lack of success this team has been having, and Flacco's low energy and high inconsistencies, how much worse can we be? Just FYI. When I played madden years ago, I always traded away Flacco because he is just as inconsistent in real life as in the game. In the game he asks for too much money. I always drafted another QB immediately and basically rebuilt my offense to be much more successful. long story short. I would not lose sleep if flacco went elsewhere, as long as the defense was assessed as a top priority