Last year, quarterback Jacoby Brissett signed a two-year, $12.5 million deal to serve as the backup to Kyler Murray. Brissett ended up starting 12 games.<\/p>\n
This year, after a couple of months of uncertainty as to the projected top spot on the Arizona depth chart, it eventually became clear that Brissett will be the starter.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the root of Brissett\u2019s effort to get a contract adjustment.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday\u2019s PFT Live, Devin McCourty (who played with Brissett in New England and still communicates with him) confirmed that, from Brissett\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s that simple. He arrived as a backup. He accepted a contract to be a backup. Now that the Cardinals have eased him \u2014 almost by default \u2014 into the starting role, he would like his deal to be adjusted.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fair point. And that doesn\u2019t mean he wants to be paid at the high end of the scale. As veteran starters go, $20 million is the baseline.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s a far cry from his current average of $6.25 million per year.<\/p>\n
The question is whether the Cardinals will do anything about Brissett\u2019s deal. They don\u2019t have to. And holdouts have become very expensive for players, thanks to the daily fines for skipping training camp.<\/p>\n
A hold-in is possible. But no one would benefit from that, especially since there\u2019s a new coaching staff and a new offense in Arizona.<\/p>\n
That could open the door for Gardner Minshew or Carson Beck to take the job. Which presumably would be fine with Brissett. He signed to be the backup. If he\u2019s going to be the backup, his contract is fine. If he\u2019s going to be the starter, he deserves a new deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, quarterback Jacoby Brissett signed a two-year, $12.5 million deal to serve as the backup to Kyler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-696115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}