You clearly aren't putting things into perspective. Lets say an employee making $50k a year is asked by his boss to take a $10k cut. That is a significant, life altering pay cut for that person. Now compare that to an NFL athlete who wants a $60 mil a year contract but is only offer $50 mil. If this person only gets 50 mil, is he really being hit that hard? It's 50 freaking million a year...
I agree with your sentiment. I think all of these guys are overpaid to be honest. But I do think it's disingenuous to make it seem that if Dak took less money that Dumb and Dumber(JJ and Stephen)would be able to make serious moves. Jerry does not have the brain capacity to be a serious GM.
But he didn’t. He had a max contract early on in his career. He actually made over 300 million and was the highest paid QB at one point. He took less money late in his career. I don’t think Brady was a system QB. Once developed he could have been great in almost any system
The contract numbers are the contract numbers. Just because they signed with 1 year left on their contracts doesn’t mean you add the last year of their previous contract to the new and call that the new contract value. That money was already owed.
? He is the highest paid. He's not a team player.
Hard to make greedy people understand that there's more to life than money.
Yes I know. The contracts are what they are. But the last year, or what is owed still counts in the overall structure going forward.
I don't know. Who would want Daniel Jones? They all do it. The team that drafted them has to pay market value or they'll play for less someplace else.
In my lifetime of experience in the workforce, I've seen people sacrifice or compromise themselves for two reasons, money is the major reason. They'll go anywhere, do anything for extra money regardless of how it negatively impacts their lives. Of course I'm talking about people that make good money either way.
Purdy did not put the team first. His agent definitely did not put the team first. They wanted $60+ million. We can dispense with Purdy’s a swell guy nonsense. The 49ers had some leverage in negotiations with Purdy. He had a year left on his current deal. He could be traded. He could be tagged twice. Dak could not be traded or tagged. Dak would have been a UFA at the end of the 2024 season. Jerry did not have the leverage the Niners had and paid for it.
I agree the FO sucks. Their primary route is "we like our guys". Well, take $10 to $15m and retain some free agents that left. Who is that? Pollard? Biadasz? Schultz?
