Fully guaranteed contracts can do serious financial harm to teams. Ask the browns lol
And I'm totally against them as well,and I'm not even a billionaire..
I think you're right, I think it gives players less incentives to play when they're dinged up or they can come back earlier from injury or fake injuries, and take games off....
I mean they're already getting money, so who cares how they perform..
I'm all for players getting their money and haven't they got more money?? I believe two things have happened guaranteed money has gone up their percentage of their contract that's guaranteed and two have we not noticed that these players are no longer asking for just being paid top 5 at their position, they've become super greedy they want to be the highest paid skill player in the league, or the highest paid quarterback in the league.. they're pushing their salaries way up and way above their actual production, a lot of these players don't deserve these contracts.
Once you start that path down the road now you've opened up a big can of worms, because a lot of players are now way overpaid for what they actually do on the field or for how much they can or can't carry their teams.
Going through that right now with parsons,
sure I think he should get about $36 million a year, he is definitely a top five at his position, but in my opinion he is not worth paying the top skilled contract, you know being the highest paid non quarterback contract in the league, that's getting old for me to even hear because a lot of these players are just not living up to those contracts.
Hell, I'm all 4 structures if they want to give them just say for instance Micah Parsons agrees to $35 million base salary with Say 30 million of it guaranteed, they can structure it that way but if he really wants $42 million then that other seven million needs to be earned by playing time, by being the top at your field each year, meaning you're going to have to earn some of those millions by being the sack leader, and then how many sacks in playoff games you play in ,all those bonuses should end up giving you maximum but you shouldn't just automatically have it handed to you...
So, I'm sure there's some middle ground here on how you can get players more money more guaranteed money but instead of him being fully guaranteed you can earn more of it, but you just can't be handed it.... There're all kinds of escalators that can be built into contracts that can motivate players to earn that extra 6-$8 million, they may want, and then I'm sure it the owners will be happy to give it to him if they've actually earned it.....
Staying with Parsons has he ever led the league in sacks, Has he had a moment in the playoffs to where he actually took over a game and willed that defense and carry the offense, like say don't worry we got you, if you can give us 12 points today, we'll win the game..
you show us when he does that and I'll give him another 5 million.. I've seen players like that in this league before they're truly elite like Ray Lewis and LT I bet we even seen michael strahan do it but I have yet to see parsons do it...
The Thing that drives me nuts is about him saying in the offseason that he wasn't looking for more than 40 million he wasn't looking to be the highest paid skill player in the league and now all of a sudden he is looking for that that's just makes me think that's why Jerry doesn't like his representation he doesn't like his agent I think his agent pushed Parsons into threatening to hold out if he doesn't get paid top money instead of Reasonable amounts of money...
