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Yeah, I saw that on PFW.
Let's say you have a Name, like Keyshawn Johnson. Regardless of how you get it - great football, writing books, always having a quote, etc. - you can market it. You can take any attitude you want once your Name is marketable in addition to your skills.
He's probably right - New England probably will not pay him for his name. One reason I was surprised the Pats and Moulds have any contact, is for just this reason. Anybody want top dollar for a Name, talk to Dan Snyder. The 'Skins will pay you all day long and twice on Sunday for your Name. They will also lose their minds over their great season, when they make it to the divisional round of the playoffs (obviously a cause for soul searching in New England.)
If you're looking to count for 5-10% of a team's cap, keep looking. Let the word go forth from this time and place, that the torch has been passed to a new model of football team, one that will not spend on the superstar, but will make the ordinary player a star. We choose to turn seventh round draft choices into #1 receivers (on other teams), not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
It is also the only way to build and maintain excellence in the National Football League in the salary cap era.
I remember everybody saying the old idea of a dynasty was over, with free agency, the cap, and parity being the buzzwords of the day. Then came New England. And make no mistake about it, every time we win a SB, the league tries to play catchup. Notice all those 3-4 base defenses, hmmm?
Okay, bonus babies. You may be worth twice what the next guy is worth. You would get paid that, in the Pats' model. But you are not worth 5 times what he is worth. Notice how the Pats still made the playoffs, and went in with a full head of steam? No, it wasn't enough. Yes, they blew the Denver game. But the point made earlier, that the Pats were injury-ravaged, is a good one. Not as an excuse, but to point out what does work in this model. To wit, the sky did not fall when just about the entire secondary got hurt. The team did not curl up and die when Seymour was out. They lost some games, but they were back - even if some "fill-ins" were the guys out there in the end.
By the way, those guys have playing time as a result. In five years, I guarantee you some desperate Colts fan is going to pop up here and tell us we're through because Ellis Hobbs, Logan Mankins, and Bethel Johnson signed with them. The thing is, there will be others. Hard as it is to take for diehard Pats fans, we make signable commodities out of nobodies, and don't return the favor often (paying big dollars for other teams' work.) So we have to stock up on the kleenex for guys like AV and Willie Mac.
Whereas your Colts fans just buy kleenex in bulk right around December of every year.
Ranting again,
PFnV
Let's say you have a Name, like Keyshawn Johnson. Regardless of how you get it - great football, writing books, always having a quote, etc. - you can market it. You can take any attitude you want once your Name is marketable in addition to your skills.
He's probably right - New England probably will not pay him for his name. One reason I was surprised the Pats and Moulds have any contact, is for just this reason. Anybody want top dollar for a Name, talk to Dan Snyder. The 'Skins will pay you all day long and twice on Sunday for your Name. They will also lose their minds over their great season, when they make it to the divisional round of the playoffs (obviously a cause for soul searching in New England.)
If you're looking to count for 5-10% of a team's cap, keep looking. Let the word go forth from this time and place, that the torch has been passed to a new model of football team, one that will not spend on the superstar, but will make the ordinary player a star. We choose to turn seventh round draft choices into #1 receivers (on other teams), not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
It is also the only way to build and maintain excellence in the National Football League in the salary cap era.
I remember everybody saying the old idea of a dynasty was over, with free agency, the cap, and parity being the buzzwords of the day. Then came New England. And make no mistake about it, every time we win a SB, the league tries to play catchup. Notice all those 3-4 base defenses, hmmm?
Okay, bonus babies. You may be worth twice what the next guy is worth. You would get paid that, in the Pats' model. But you are not worth 5 times what he is worth. Notice how the Pats still made the playoffs, and went in with a full head of steam? No, it wasn't enough. Yes, they blew the Denver game. But the point made earlier, that the Pats were injury-ravaged, is a good one. Not as an excuse, but to point out what does work in this model. To wit, the sky did not fall when just about the entire secondary got hurt. The team did not curl up and die when Seymour was out. They lost some games, but they were back - even if some "fill-ins" were the guys out there in the end.
By the way, those guys have playing time as a result. In five years, I guarantee you some desperate Colts fan is going to pop up here and tell us we're through because Ellis Hobbs, Logan Mankins, and Bethel Johnson signed with them. The thing is, there will be others. Hard as it is to take for diehard Pats fans, we make signable commodities out of nobodies, and don't return the favor often (paying big dollars for other teams' work.) So we have to stock up on the kleenex for guys like AV and Willie Mac.
Whereas your Colts fans just buy kleenex in bulk right around December of every year.
Ranting again,
PFnV
