5 reasons Andrew Luck extension was a good move

3.The salary cap always rises

The best part about paying today is that in the future you may see relief. The salary cap is correlated to the amount of money the NFL makes. As the NFL makes more money, the cap will rise.

Not sure if you have been paying attention or not but the NFL is now the clear cut most popular sport in America. It is essentially a year-round event now and the NFL is swimming in it.

Recently, the NFL had been ordered to return over $120 million to the players as they were caught miscalculating funds and were called on it. That drove the salary cap up $1.2 million per team. With the ever-growing NFL, now would be the best time, public relations wise, to make sure that the cap is in order and is benefiting the players to the fullest.

Therefore, all these contracts are doing is setting a bar for what the next contract will be. In 2011, Peyton Manning signed a five-year, $90 million contract. Two years later Matt Ryan signs a five-year $103 million contract. Two years after that, Rodgers signed a five-year $110 million contract. Now we have the Luck extension that is being called a five-year $123 million deal.

The guaranteed money is the most important part and is what has people calling him overpaid. Still, that will only matter if the Colts are to cut Andrew Luck. It would be hard to say that they can find a better option for Luck at a cheaper price in the next six years. Something terribly wrong would have to happen for them to even worry about crossing that bridge. Therefore, all they are doing is giving themselves time to prepare their cap situation to be able to build around a franchise quarterback.

Tough to argue against that.

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