I understand what you are saying, you are bringing up a few examples of players receiving comparable contracts relative to today's players. This is a little different for two reasons, one this appears now to be a trend, whereas before they were more of an outlier. The reason why I posted the link is to show you aside from Peyton's contract, the highest base pay salary was $13.5M . Flacco's base pay for 2016 will reach a staggering $28.5M, and I assume by the time Aaron Rodger's contract is finished we will see probably something north of that amount.
According to DIB, we probably won't see a meaningful increase in the cap until at least 2015. Which means that Flacco's and I assume Rodger's contract will account for over 21% of their team's cap (assuming the cap will be $135M)
If you average out the top 5 QB's from last years base pay salary, even including Peyton's 20M salary (Which I consider to be part of the new trend of these higher QB contracts), they only made up south of 11% of the team's cap.
So think about that for a second, Flacco, who most likely won't be the highest paid QB salary by the time we get to 2016, will make up 21% of the team's cap, whereas in 2013, the top 5 QB's made up south of 11%.
That's a huge difference.