except it's not obvious. each year there's a team with players making huge salaries who get to the superbowl. The chiefs had like 2 mil worth of cap space left this year and have like 20 mil going into next season. The 49ers have even less.
i noticed you didn't address the point of taking less to make someone else the highest paid or overpaying a homegrown talent.
as for your other question, hmmmm shouldn't you be asking yourself the same question? You're the one upset he wants to get paid top dollar, not me. i'm on his side. i actually have kids in sports and if they were given a chance to get paid top dollar for all the hard work i know they put in, i'm not going to tell them "oh no son, all those sacrifices you made, all that training, time spent to become great, yea let's just ignore that and take less than what the guys you are better than are making".
Not only that, i also had a good friend who played in the nfl briefly (dedrick epps). Dude literally has one in-season catch because his knee got wrecked on that play and never got back to how he was. that can happen to anyone in this sport. Doesn't make sense to take less money in a sport that can literally end your ability to provide for your family. High risk sport needs to provide high rewards.
Why? Because they let their best WR walk.
No problem. If taking less still makes you unbelievably rich, what does it matter? If you take a contract for, say, 22 mil/season instead of 28 mil/season, you can still buy whatever you want and will never have to work again. If you have 100 million dollars, it would make zero difference if you had 110 mil.
See, you're making the mistake of thinking I don't think he shouldn't get a pile of money. I do. If Lamb takes a contract for, let's say 5 years/110mil w/ 80 mil guaranteed, he will have enough money to stay rich no matter what.
Would you rather have 22 mil and win a super bowl or 24 mil and lose in the first round? Money is important, no doubt about that, but there are also other things even more important. Family, integrity, success, honesty, loyalty, stuff like that beats the hades out of a few mil.
I hate that players never want to give home team discounts for the betterment of the team. I also hate that I'm rooting for guys to take less money that saves billionaire owners a few million bucks that they'll never miss.
