Lbaron
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I can picture the Pats bringing in a beer vendor from Gilette, telling him:
"Billy you average sales of XX beers per hour, well the stadium average is XX+15, so we are going to lower your pay by XX% to reflect your lack of productivity in this matter, we just don't think you're being all that competitive in this situation"
Same thing could happen to the groundscrew, cheerleaders, etc!
"You cut grass at a rate of XX feet per hour, you have to improve on that..."
So I'm taking this a bit far, but we know this is what they do with players.
Deon was worth 1.0M to the Patriots this season because that is the price they were supposed to pay him. Not a penny over for this season. So when he wanted to increase this amount this season, the Pats would not break.
My point is every player has a max $ value next to his name, and how he fits in the plan. (Exception Seymour + Brady)
Well, using this hard lined approach as fans I look at things like this:
The PATS are 10-13M (I'll use 12M for my example) under the cap, which is for argument's sake 105M
So the Pats are at 93M on the cap which means they are only spending 88.57% of the Cap. This means the product on the field is only 88.57% as competitive as it could be.
Now to my point. As a fan of this team, I will take the same approach they do towards business and say that I want the Patriots to lower ticket prices by 11.43% percent (100-88.57)!!
Think about it, the only thing I did here was use the Pats approach to negotiations as a fan about the team I spend money to go see. So until they either spend up to the cap or lower prices, I will NOT pay for the most expensive tickets in the NFL for a sub-par product
"Billy you average sales of XX beers per hour, well the stadium average is XX+15, so we are going to lower your pay by XX% to reflect your lack of productivity in this matter, we just don't think you're being all that competitive in this situation"
Same thing could happen to the groundscrew, cheerleaders, etc!
"You cut grass at a rate of XX feet per hour, you have to improve on that..."
So I'm taking this a bit far, but we know this is what they do with players.
Deon was worth 1.0M to the Patriots this season because that is the price they were supposed to pay him. Not a penny over for this season. So when he wanted to increase this amount this season, the Pats would not break.
My point is every player has a max $ value next to his name, and how he fits in the plan. (Exception Seymour + Brady)
Well, using this hard lined approach as fans I look at things like this:
The PATS are 10-13M (I'll use 12M for my example) under the cap, which is for argument's sake 105M
So the Pats are at 93M on the cap which means they are only spending 88.57% of the Cap. This means the product on the field is only 88.57% as competitive as it could be.
Now to my point. As a fan of this team, I will take the same approach they do towards business and say that I want the Patriots to lower ticket prices by 11.43% percent (100-88.57)!!
Think about it, the only thing I did here was use the Pats approach to negotiations as a fan about the team I spend money to go see. So until they either spend up to the cap or lower prices, I will NOT pay for the most expensive tickets in the NFL for a sub-par product