There's been a lot of discussion about the validity of Eli's new contract. Here's a good article from the FO guys putting his contract into context.

Helps to show that Eli's contract is not necessarily the record-setting deal that people have made it out to be, but is in fact inferior in a number of respects to a number of deals other QBs in the league have gotten (i.e. Brady's 6.625 mil/yr guaranteed).

Doesn't necessarily justify his contract, but it certainly makes it seem a whole lot more reasonable.