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NFL could try to cap individual player contracts

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I also agree to every 53 player making at least 1% of salary cap for that year which will be prorated based on games he or she plays. If they are in PS they will make 0.25% of salary cap for that year and 12% max limit of cap space for any player. All said it's a team game and the team is 53 players. No point for one superstar player to be making 50 million while the poor 5th round rb hits tacklers and makes 1 million a year while risking concussions.
He or she?
 
This absolutely should happen. Why would any sane person be against capping these ridiculous salaries of the top sb's. Why does anyone need 55-60 million per year.
I get it there in short supply. It's entertainment but cap what they can make at 30 million. That is plenty.
Same should be done for CEO's

Spread the wealth around a bit to the players who help the qb be successful.

-Also cap the ticket prices
-Cap how much these greedy bastards can charge to watch the games on TC
- Remove the anti trust exemption as NFL is abusing it with all the streaming payoffs
 
This absolutely should happen. Why would any sane person be against capping these ridiculous salaries of the top sb's. Why does anyone need 55-60 million per year.
I get it there in short supply. It's entertainment but cap what they can make at 30 million. That is plenty.
Same should be done for CEO's

Spread the wealth around a bit to the players who help the qb be successful.

-Also cap the ticket prices
-Cap how much these greedy bastards can charge to watch the games on TC
- Remove the anti trust exemption as NFL is abusing it with all the streaming payoffs
Why would any sane person say they were going to do something and actually do it? These poor slobs probably keep their promises too am I right?
 
This absolutely should happen. Why would any sane person be against capping these ridiculous salaries of the top sb's. Why does anyone need 55-60 million per year.
I get it there in short supply. It's entertainment but cap what they can make at 30 million. That is plenty.
Same should be done for CEO's
As someone has said (not here IIRC), it's a bit funny that this is essentially millionaires vs. billionaires, but somehow many people are on the billionaire's side.

Spread the wealth around a bit to the players who help the qb be successful.

-Also cap the ticket prices
-Cap how much these greedy bastards can charge to watch the games on TC
- Remove the anti trust exemption as NFL is abusing it with all the streaming payoffs
That would create at least as many problems as it solves, as it would, among other things, get rid of the draft.
 
I would, as I would also cap what teams can do to increase prices yearly. At some point the bleeding has to stop. As I said before is Drake Maye worth 70 million per year? Hell to the ****ing no. Not even close. I'd have choked that down even if it was TB12.

I am all for capping what certain positions can make otherwise you will be seeing players making 150-200 per season in about 10 years. That is untenable and the fans will be charged more and more. The whole system needs a revamp. Oh and is Gonzo worth 30 per for a couple of passes defensed per game? Nope.
 
I feel like teams have been managing as usual even as contracts swell, I don't understand dialogue around this stuff. What do people expect?
 
95% of the country isn’t poor.
Over 80% of workers have access to insurance through employment.
If you drive 200 miles a week gas is about $20.
Let’s keep the conversation to football, not political rhetoric, misrepresentation and bs.
He made a sociological observation. The only thing making that political is you calling it political.
 
Spread the wealth around a bit to the players who help the qb be successful.

-Also cap the ticket prices
-Cap how much these greedy bastards can charge to watch the games on TC
- Remove the anti trust exemption as NFL is abusing it with all the streaming payoffs
That would create at least as many problems as it solves, as it would, among other things, get rid of the draft.
I think that would be great!

Let’s just have all rookies treated as free agents. Let teams go wild bidding on them. But everybody still has to stay within the cap.

Remember the rookie washout rate. One bad contract, like outbidding everybody else for Ryan Leaf, and a team is ruined for years.

It will be great fun.

Let the invisible hand of free market economics, tied by the salary cap, prevail.
 
He made a sociological observation. The only thing making that political is you calling it political.
No, because his observation was not accurate and such characterizations are at the center of politics in America today.
 
I think that would be great!

Let’s just have all rookies treated as free agents. Let teams go wild bidding on them. But everybody still has to stay within the cap. [. . .] It will be great fun.

Let the invisible hand of free market economics, tied by the salary cap, prevail.
Do you really think that, given the mess Belichick and Mayo had made, that the Patriots would have Maye right now?
 
I cant seem to get the link to work, but Curran and Florio had a good discussion on the 18 game season and up coming owner/player negotiations. Florio says the owners will exert their will. No more 50 50 revenue split. Rising expenses as the cause.

Each player will sit at least one game and only play 17. That's ****ing weird IMO especially with QBs.
 
I get it, but to a certain extent, if individual players at the top take up too much of the cap the it ends up choking out the cap money available for the guys lower on the ladder. I’m sure the top 10% of the NFL balk at the concept but the guys that make up the majority of rosters in the NFL would surely like to see some of that excess made available to them instead, and it is those players that the union is supposed to represent the interests of.

A control where one player contract cannot exceed, say, 15% of the cap, seems like a start. It at least stymies the QB contract inflation.
I hate these Socialistic fixes because the Owners can't control their budgets so it's up to the Players to do it. These Commie Billionaires always trying to spread the wealth at the expense of the BEST Americans.
 
I hate these Socialistic fixes because the Owners can't control their budgets so it's up to the Players to do it. These Commie Billionaires always trying to spread the wealth at the expense of the BEST Americans.
Billionaires couldn't stay billionaires without their socialism and/or communism.
 
I get it, but to a certain extent, if individual players at the top take up too much of the cap the it ends up choking out the cap money available for the guys lower on the ladder. I’m sure the top 10% of the NFL balk at the concept but the guys that make up the majority of rosters in the NFL would surely like to see some of that excess made available to them instead, and it is those players that the union is supposed to represent the interests of.

A control where one player contract cannot exceed, say, 15% of the cap, seems like a start. It at least stymies the QB contract inflation.

I also think there will be a tangible benefit to fans because to some degree a big name signing made in the name of increasing ticket sales but is detrimental to the team's longterm capacity to compete is a viable scenario that this would help avoid.
 
I also think there will be a tangible benefit to fans because to some degree a big name signing made in the name of increasing ticket sales but is detrimental to the team's longterm capacity to compete is a viable scenario that this would help avoid.
I'm not feeling it and neither is Taylor Swift.
 
I also think there will be a tangible benefit to fans because to some degree a big name signing made in the name of increasing ticket sales but is detrimental to the team's longterm capacity to compete is a viable scenario that this would help avoid.
Yeah, that is basically what Watson was for the Browns.
 
I'm not feeling it and neither is Taylor Swift.

As I've told you every single time you send me a drunk private message, I am not a 14 year old girl.
 
As I've told you every single time you send me a drunk private message, I am not a 14 year old girl.
You've never supplied tangible proof.
 
As someone has said (not here IIRC), it's a bit funny that this is essentially millionaires vs. billionaires, but somehow many people are on the billionaire's side.
Why is that funny? If they’re in the right on a particular topic then they’re in the right - no matter which side has however much money.
 
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