Every team is operating under the same rules, and all have find a way to build the best talent they can. That is what competition is.Then there should probably be a NFLQB salary Cap for same reason they established the original Caps.
If you must have an elite QB to compete at 40 mil per year how does that make the NFL more competitive?
The teams decide that, not fans. As with any industry in the US, if the employer feels an employee helps them make money, even at a high salary, then they are free to decide that employee is worth the money.No professional athlete is worth $40 million per season being they don't even play a year. These salaries are out of control. That's why there's so many problems w/contracts.
Maybe we should put a cap on Billionaire salaries?
It doesn’t . But we must all remember the NFL is entertainment sports at the highest level. QB’s are the franchises and leagues most popular product.Then there should probably be a NFLQB salary Cap for same reason they established the original Caps.
If you must have an elite QB to compete at 40 mil per year how does that make the NFL more competitive?
No cap free players in the NBA.Can you explain that a little more please? I don't follow the NBA anymore but heard they did have some exemptions?
I was thinking maybe have 1 player per team cap free.
It has seemed to me for a very long time that our owner/GM and his entitled family executive team build this team FIRST to make money and remain MARKETABLE.The only people to blame for this are the owners, the NFLPA isn't going to agree to any cap on any position, nor should they. If these people can't manage their cap any better, that's not any player's fault.
If team's had to have these "elite" QB's and pay them an exorbitant amount of the cap, Brees, Rodgers and Wilson would have more than one ring and E. Manning wouldn't have any.
Can't pass some rule to save people from making stupid decisions, they just have to learn on their own. I will say that these other teams with those elite paid QB's don't have cap committed to so many other players. When a GM has to let the best player on the DL and secondary walk because of what he's paying to RB, WR, OL and the other DE and what he will "have" to pay the QB, that is nothing but perpetual cap mismanagement and they're not getting any better at it.
There is 0 doubt in my mind that a prudent and smart GM can build a team that doesn't need a 40M QB as long as he balances it right and remains true to his plan. That cat in NE has been doing it and few emulate him. Oh, they chin boogie that all the time but they don't have the nerve to let the GOAT QB walk, trade the DL, LB and let a player as good, of not better, than Lawrence walk because it doesn't fit the plan.
Not capping the QB, or any position, really makes this more interesting. We're seeing this team realize they've already screwed the pooch and have openly put the responsibility of building a team around him on his shoulders. That was a huge no sale. They are not one bit better at this after running the team for 30 years. That's what incompetence at the top and nepotism throughout will get you.
YepIt has seemed to me for a very long time that our owner/GM and his entitled family executive team build this team FIRST to make money and remain MARKETABLE.
Does the “Jones Cartel” want to win? Sure. But It is clearly not the top priority of this organization. At best it is second. Which is actually a generous interpretation of how the Jones FO operates. A less generous interpretation of this FO is that they are just not very good at building a championship roster. Either or both interpretations could be correct in my view. One view of this family FO I don’t have is that they have just been “unlucky”.
To understand the thinking of that family, namely the patriarch, his son told this story.It has seemed to me for a very long time that our owner/GM and his entitled family executive team build this team FIRST to make money and remain MARKETABLE.
Does the “Jones Cartel” want to win? Sure. But It is clearly not the top priority of this organization. At best it is second. Which is actually a generous interpretation of how the Jones FO operates. A less generous interpretation of this FO is that they are just not very good at building a championship roster. Either or both interpretations could be correct in my view. One view of this family FO I don’t have is that they have just been “unlucky”.
Can you explain that a little more please? I don't follow the NBA anymore but heard they did have some exemptions?
I was thinking maybe have 1 player per team cap free.
Then there should probably be a NFLQB salary Cap for same reason they established the original Caps.
If you must have an elite QB to compete at 40 mil per year how does that make the NFL more competitive?
Welcome to the Dallas Cowboys I guess, but I aint leaving any time soon.No cap. Pay him or don't pay him. It's really not more complicated than that.
You need a really good QB to compete? Yeah, probably. Paying him a ridiculous amount of money can counter that, of course, yes. Then don't pay him. Someone else will.
Keep in mind that we are fans, and as fans we only think about winning. Owners think about money. If a superstar QB gets fans in the seats and increases their revenue, who cares if they win championships or not? That's the owners mindset.
I’m very much like you regarding Jerry. Much to many posters here surprise, I don’t hate Jerry at all. I do hate the results he’s been getting and I hate the way he runs his organization.To understand the thinking of that family, namely the patriarch, his son told this story.
Early on, after they'd arrived in Dallas (and taken Grannie and her rocker down off the top of the truck), Booger threw a party for the media. They were going over the list and Stuphen mentions a name with disdain, he never mentioned who it was, and remarked how negative he had been about their take over. "You don't want to invite him". Booger's response was "he will write about us and the Dallas Cowboys, yes, invite him".
He bought a team that was bleeding, fired a local legend and knew that a turnaround would most likely take more years than it did so what he had to do was what we called in my business, advertising, "polishing a turd". He had no steak, it had to be all sizzle.
What followed that was the rise of his HC into that legend's old seat and celebrity status like Booger had never seen. His brush with celebrity was death threats over not paying Emmitt. Jimmy had replaced a legend and had become one himself and the media adored Jimmy.
So, what was born of necessity, the need to market and promote an inferior product, became a drug to Booger. People wanted his autograph and pics with him, mainly because anyone would look better standing next to him, and he was interviewed and could command the camera and mic and he became that for which there is no explanation, "The Unnecessary Celebrity" like the Kardashians.
I do not believe he started out seeking the spotlight. I think he saw first hand what happened to Jimmy and wanted him some of that, which, unfortunately for us, became wanting all of that. The best way to do that was to keep the spotlight off others and only hired Parcells to get the Big Top and that only exacerbated his need for the spotlight once again.
And while I know it's an odd thing to do, I actually enjoy his face after losing a game so as a fan, I win either way.
However, when posters say I hate Booger, they are wrong. I don't even dislike him because I don't know him. I don't even have a problem with him running his own show, he owns it.
I do not like his personality and need for attention and need to show off and try to impress people with his money. I don't like anybody that has the need to do that.
No professional athlete is worth $40 million per season being they don't even play a year. These salaries are out of control. That's why there's so many problems w/contracts.
Welcome to the Dallas Cowboys I guess, but I aint leaving any time soon.
You draft one every year in tge top 3 rounds and let them walk after their rookie contracts until the market resets itself....Then there should probably be a NFLQB salary Cap for same reason they established the original Caps.
If you must have an elite QB to compete at 40 mil per year how does that make the NFL more competitive?
You draft one every year in tge top 3 rounds and let them walk after their rookie contracts until the market resets itself....