The latest from SuperAgent Leigh Steinberg

[cowboyjoe]

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Why-the-salary-cap-hurts-football.html

Since 1993, the salary cap system has negatively impacted the NFL in a variety of ways. Its main benefit has been the fact that it has provided a structure that the NFL and players agreed upon, facilitating uninterrupted play since 1987.

Labor peace has greatly accelerated the dominance in this country of the NFL over other sports, with fans favoring the NFL over the next most popular sport by a two to one margin. That branding advantage allowed players and owners to engage in a united effort to creatively develop new revenue sources, creating unprecedented financial success.

But the cap undermines many fundamental football principles and has short and long term destructive effects on the play of the game. It is a classic case of the unintended consequences that occur from a system based on financial rather than football considerations.

 

[Hostile]

It is a classic case of the unintended consequences that occur from a system based on financial rather than football considerations.

Cause and effect? I swear I did not prompt him to say this.

 

[cowboyjoe]

Cause and effect? I swear I did not prompt him to say this.

you can fix the title for me if you wish Hos, to something better or whatever you think,

here is where i found it on twitter
Here's the latest NFP article from SuperAgent Leigh Steinberg (@SteinbergSports) Why the salary cap hurts

 

[Hostile]

you can fix the title for me if you wish Hos, to something better or whatever you think,

here is where i found it on twitter
Here's the latest NFP article from SuperAgent Leigh Steinberg (@SteinbergSports) Why the salary cap hurts

Short titles > Long titles

 

[cowboyjoe]

Short titles > Long titles

Duh, I thought i could get the whole article title in, but couldnt, i cant go back and edit the title,

 

[Hostile]

Duh, I thought i could get the whole article title in, but couldnt, i cant go back and edit the title,

In the future keep them short. You always try to get long titles in. It never works. I had already edited it last time.

 

[cowboyjoe]

In the future keep them short. You always try to get long titles in. It never works. I had already edited it last time.

ok thanks, thats why i posted the article when i read it and was wondering if you would notice Cause and effect? I swear I did not prompt him to say this.

 

[birdwells1]

Titles scmitles, I don't care about titles what I do care about is new stuff to read on this board and Cowboy Joe you do a great job of keeping us updated to relavent football info. Thanks

 

[AdamJT13]

Talk about transparent. His argument is that without a cap, teams could keep all of the players they "draft and coach in a superior way" and that the cap forces teams and long-time players to part ways, which harms "team continuity, player security & stability, and fan's (sic) long term familiarity with players."

Um, sorry, Leigh, but your argument could be used more effectively against free agency. Without a cap, almost every team still would operate under a budget. Some would be even lower than what the cap is. Only a few teams would benefit from being able to spend vastly more than the cap.

Without free agency, however, all 32 teams could keep all of the players that they "draft and coach in a superior way." Teams that "draft and coach players in a superior way" also would benefit from being able to trade those players instead of watching them walk away in free agency. Teams would never have to part ways with long-time players unless they wanted to -- "which benefits team continuity, player security & stability, and fan's (sic) long term familiarity with players."

Of course, an agent wouldn't want to get rid of free agency, right?

 

[DallasEast]

Titles scmitles, I don't care about titles what I do care about is new stuff to read on this board and Cowboy Joe you do a great job of keeping us updated to relavent football info. Thanks

ANYWAY!

Thanks for making your thread titles shorter from this moment on, cowboyjoe.

 

[YosemiteSam]

That guy is a tool. Agents are just as bad a lawyers.

 

[cowboyjoe]

Titles scmitles, I don't care about titles what I do care about is new stuff to read on this board and Cowboy Joe you do a great job of keeping us updated to relavent football info. Thanks

thanks buddy, i try

 

[superpunk]

Titles scmitles, I don't care about titles what I do care about is new stuff to read on this board and Cowboy Joe you do a great job of keeping us updated to relavent football info. Thanks

Amen. cowboyjoe IS Cowboyszone.

 

[burmafrd]

Fact of the matter is that a lot of the strenght of the 90's boys was leached away by FA and the CAP. If there had been neither, we could have kept that team together longer.

FA and the CAP together are reasons the NFL is not as professional as it once was; you cannot keep players together long enough for them to truly become great teams. O lines in particular; a great O line if assembled within 2-3 years could stay together baring injury for another 8-10 years. Now there is virtually no team that has the same starting 5 together for more than a year or two.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Virtually none of the top quarterbacks from the 1999 draft are still in the league. Think of how Tim Couch, Akili Smith, Dante Culpepper and Cade McNown might have been stars in their primes if they had been given more tutelage time.

Couch, Smith and McNown were never going to be stars in the NFL.

 

[johnnyd]

Fact of the matter is that a lot of the strenght of the 90's boys was leached away by FA and the CAP. If there had been neither, we could have kept that team together longer.

FA and the CAP together are reasons the NFL is not as professional as it once was; you cannot keep players together long enough for them to truly become great teams. O lines in particular; a great O line if assembled within 2-3 years could stay together baring injury for another 8-10 years. Now there is virtually no team that has the same starting 5 together for more than a year or two.

I agree , I wish the NFL would adopt a version of "Bird Exception" that the NBA uses.

 

[sonnyboy]

That guy is a tool. Agents are just as bad a lawyers.

That's only because I think most of them are.

 

[iceberg]

Talk about transparent. His argument is that without a cap, teams could keep all of the players they "draft and coach in a superior way" and that the cap forces teams and long-time players to part ways, which harms "team continuity, player security & stability, and fan's (sic) long term familiarity with players."

Um, sorry, Leigh, but your argument could be used more effectively against free agency. Without a cap, almost every team still would operate under a budget. Some would be even lower than what the cap is. Only a few teams would benefit from being able to spend vastly more than the cap.

Without free agency, however, all 32 teams could keep all of the players that they "draft and coach in a superior way." Teams that "draft and coach players in a superior way" also would benefit from being able to trade those players instead of watching them walk away in free agency. Teams would never have to part ways with long-time players unless they wanted to -- "which benefits team continuity, player security & stability, and fan's (sic) long term familiarity with players."

Of course, an agent wouldn't want to get rid of free agency, right?

i would think they want to get rid of the cap more so they can get their players to the highest bidder period so the agents get a higher % of revenue. so him saying the cap is evil is simply self serving, not mired in reality.