It's a fairly simple thing to understand if you actually pay attention to the trends of football, and the way salaries are heading within the league.
Quarterbacks are rare. Clay Travis has harped on this fact before, that QBs determine whether or not you win close to every single time, and Colin Cowherd has been saying it for years. That is why, if you have a guy like Matthew Stafford, you pay him exactly what the market deems his value to be at...
Or someone else will.
Colin explained this entire thing in the audio below. Listen right here: