ABQCOWBOY
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If the NFL market values don't rise every year why then do the price of contracts go up every year? Why aren't the salaries the same amounts they were in 2010 or 1999 or pick any year you want? As I've said market values continue to rise every year. The exception is when a player is on his downward side of his career and even those are higher every year. What a player that is going to be reduced to a backup player today makes more than one under the same situations made in 2015 or 2010 or 1999 or any year. Honestly, I can think of how the market value has dropped. There was a time when after the QB the RB was the highest paid position and that feel off but it think it's more of a cycle type thing because RB's are again the past few years making more money again. They probably won't ever be the 2nd highest paid position again but that's mostly because the league has turned into a passing league. But the market value for plays as a whole rises every year.
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They don't. I mean, that's just not a true statement. On the whole, salaries go up because the CBA dictates this as a part of negotiation, according to profit margin by the league but, this doesn't apply to every single position unilaterally. Look at what has happened to the RB position in the NFL, as you mentioned. Once among the highest paid players in the entire league, they are now well below that. There is a difference between salaries rising and bad contracts. If we were talking about Dak at 33 or even 35, that represents rising salary but we are talking 40. That's decreasing value by overpaying.
I really wished the team would have allowed Dak to test the market. I think what he would have saw would have been eye opening to him but, that didn't happen so it is what it is.