Ryan Clark ‘Sick’ Over This QB Making More Money Than Tom Brady

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is the best quarterback in the entire NFL history, but he isn’t the highest paid quarterback. Brady tends to give up on part of his salary to give the team enough salary-cap flexibility to spread the wealth around the roster. Brady’s earning is nothing in comparison to the earnings his rivals have. Ryan Clark doesn’t like this.

Let’s take Eli Manning for example. The New York Giants quarterback has two rings, and the rest of his career wasn’t as good as Brady’s professional success. However, Manning has $23 million more than the Patriots quarterback in career earnings.

“You know what?” Clark said Tuesday on ESPN’s First Take. “Right now, it’s not really a big issue to me because you don’t pay guys based on lifetime achievements. So where Tom Brady is in his career, where the New England Patriots are as an offense and as a team, it makes sense to put him in the top 10 of quarterback salary. But if you don’t want to make him the highest-paid based on what you’re going to ask him to do, his age, what he’s going to do going forward, that’s OK.

“But let’s get to the all-time money list of quarterbacks. There was a time when Tom Brady was the best quarterback in the game, and there wasn’t a question. When he had Randy Moss and he was throwing 50 touchdowns and that team went 16-0 to, yes, lose to Max’s New York Giants in the Super Bowl. But Tom Brady should have been the top-paid quarterback in this league for over a decade. Tom Brady should have made more money throughout his career than any other quarterback that’s played in this game. It’s OK that he’s taken some shorts to help the team and that he’s married to someone who’s also earned a good amount of money. But the fact that Eli Manning has made so much more money than Tom Brady — it legitimately makes me sick.” 

It’s not like Brady lacks financial support in his life. He doesn’t even need all those money. His wife, Gisele, earns enough.