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The departure of Cam Newton to start rookie quarterback Mac Jones will save the New England team a few million dollars.
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It is no secret to anyone that the stage of Bill Belichick in front of the New England Patriots has been full of sporting successes in the NFL. However, under the command of the head coach in the team they have had other victories but in the financial sphere, having the coach as the main protagonist.
And it is that Belichick has become in recent years a kind of guru when it comes to optimizing the finances of the team in the face of the season of the National Football League That begins next week already shows what is a new success financed for the coach.
The most recent decision Belichick made was to leave the seasoned quarterback. Cam Newton, who came to the team in 2020 to cover the departure of Tom brady, to give the responsibility of being the starting quarterback to the rookie Mac Jones, who is in just his first season in the league.
How are they going to save $ 12 million?
The answer is simple. While the decision made by Bill Belichick to prefer Mac Jones upon Cam Newton was not taken based on the monetary issue, it is also a reality that the New England Patriots this way they will save a good amount of money on the salary of their starting quarterback in the season of the NFL.
If we take into account that Mac Jones, who was the third overall draft pick of the NFL In 2021, he signed a contract for 15.5 million dollars for four seasons, it is understood that being his first season in the league, the rookie quarterback will have an annual salary of 660 thousand dollars.
In this way, if that figure is divided by the 17 games of the regular round of the season, it gives an amount of 38 thousand dollars per game, while Cam Newton was to earn about $ 14 million. That by doing the same equation, the experienced player was going to earn just over $ 700,000 per game.
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