Chris Long has signed with St. Louis, it’s more evidence for those who say rookie contracts will never be made sane unless the league legislates a stricter salary scale for rookies. The numbers weren’t in as of last night, but I hear Long got 16 percent more than last year’s second-overall pick, Calvin Johnson, got in Detroit in his first five years. (As is the case with many of the top deals, Long has a sixth year, but it is voidable, meaning the best way to compare deals is to compare the years of the contract that are not voidable.) I’m told the deal is a couple of million below Jake Long’s five-year, $50-million contract (incentives push Jake’s deal to $57.5 million, but they’re not a part of his base or bonuses), with very similar guaranteed money. That would put Chris Long’s guarantees at around $29 million. Good deal for Chris Long. Eye-rolling deal, another one, to many GMs in the league.

Maybe there are some facts to back up this strange move by the Rams. Let’s take a look. Green had 5 starts in 2007. Green would have been 26th in QB rating if he would have played enough to even be rated. 21 QBs completed as many passes in 2007 as he has completed over the last two years. The $65 million dollars the rams paid to Marc Bulger means Green is not the future or the present, and will get paid $9 million dollars to hold a clipboard. Where do I sign up for that job?

The Rams need to have a great draft and free agent class to rebuild this franchise. Instead we are digging bigger holes and throwing more money out the window. This was just not a great move by the Rams. With Bulger signed long term the Rams can not change QBs, so they should be looking for a young talented QB to groom for a couple years. Instead we spent more PSL dollars on a brittle old memory.

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