smg93
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Strong middle classes not only drive the most successful economies of the world, they also have proven to be keys to championships in football. A salary cap reflects a country's GNP. The fact that the patriots build a team by making sure the separation between "rich" and "poor" is not as large as most other teams is what allows them to thrive year after year despite injuries.
Almost every year, a statistic towards the end of the season that is brought up by many sports reporters is "# of games lost due to injury". Success in the NFL was usually tied to being healthy throughout a particular season. That's why many teams can't consistently reach the playoffs or win Superbowl's. A team can get to the top in one season because they were fortunate not to have too many injuries on that particular year, but they disappear the next because you can't always be lucky enough to avoid injuries every year. That's the classic boom and bust economy of many less developed economies of the world.
Do you think it's a coincidence that in all or most of the Pats SB and playoff runs the last 5 years, the Pats have done it despite having one of the highest # of games lost due to injury? Of course not! They've built the team not with a lot of superstars but with players that can step up and replace injured starters without as large a talent drop off as other teams.
Your definition of cheap is based on looking at the wrong data. It's like if an economist would gauge how well an economy is doing by looking only at the lives of Bill Gates and the rest of the Forbes Billionaires list. In most cases, the largest sector of the population is what defines how well a nations economy is doing. From a football perspective, take out the top 10 highest paid and the 10 lowest paid players. What you're looking at right now is the guts of your team. These guys are one of, if not the richest 33 players in all of football. And it is those guys that take a team to the playoffs and beyond year after year after year.
Almost every year, a statistic towards the end of the season that is brought up by many sports reporters is "# of games lost due to injury". Success in the NFL was usually tied to being healthy throughout a particular season. That's why many teams can't consistently reach the playoffs or win Superbowl's. A team can get to the top in one season because they were fortunate not to have too many injuries on that particular year, but they disappear the next because you can't always be lucky enough to avoid injuries every year. That's the classic boom and bust economy of many less developed economies of the world.
Do you think it's a coincidence that in all or most of the Pats SB and playoff runs the last 5 years, the Pats have done it despite having one of the highest # of games lost due to injury? Of course not! They've built the team not with a lot of superstars but with players that can step up and replace injured starters without as large a talent drop off as other teams.
Your definition of cheap is based on looking at the wrong data. It's like if an economist would gauge how well an economy is doing by looking only at the lives of Bill Gates and the rest of the Forbes Billionaires list. In most cases, the largest sector of the population is what defines how well a nations economy is doing. From a football perspective, take out the top 10 highest paid and the 10 lowest paid players. What you're looking at right now is the guts of your team. These guys are one of, if not the richest 33 players in all of football. And it is those guys that take a team to the playoffs and beyond year after year after year.
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