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Schefter :Colin Kaepernick can't cash in
Colin Kaepernick can't cash in
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has found holes in opposing defenses and the CBA. Thanks to the collective bargaining agreement that the NFL and NFLPA negotiated in July 2011, what San Francisco is paying Kaepernick to take the team to Super Bowl XLVII is a steal. And the Seattle Seahawks are paying even less to quarterback Russell Wilson, who took the team to the divisional playoff round and set up the franchise for the next decade. There might not be two athletes in any sport as underpaid as Kaepernick and Wilson, two NFC West quarterbacks who figure to square off for years to come. It's off-the-charts ridiculousness, their salaries. It's thievery, nearly criminal. Sixty minutes from a world championship, Kaepernick is finishing up Year Two of a four-year, $5.12 million deal that is worth more than $3 million less in full than what Mark Sanchez will make from the New York Jets next season. Yet Kaepernick has no out. He is locked into the deal until after the 2013 season. Wilson's deal is even more glaringly incongruous. He signed a four-year, $2.99 million deal that is worth $6 million less in full than what Kevin Kolb is scheduled to make from Seattle's division rival Arizona Cardinals next season. Like Kaepernick, Wilson has no way out. He is stuck with the deal until after the 2014 season, despite being added to the Pro Bowl this week and looking like he could go for years to come. These two deals expose one of the biggest weaknesses in the CBA for the players and one of the biggest strengths for owners. Young NFL players have no choice but to suck it up for three years, even if they play at the level Kaepernick and Wilson have. Meanwhile, NFL owners get to build cheaply through the draft and own players' rights for five to six years, without the threat of arbitration that Major League Baseball has. This is why good scouting and draft picks really are more valuable than ever before. The NFL never has seen good labor this cheap for this long. How the league got here is easy enough to understand. During the most recent CBA negotiations, we saw an extreme backlash against the outlandish deals given to top draft picks in previous years, when a player such as former No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell walked away with $32 million in guaranteed money. So much attention was given to the issue that standout rookies in the new 10-year CBA now are being punished for it. In part because of Russell, Kaepernick and Wilson are underpaid. There is no reprieve, no chance to be paid until a player has given a team three seasons. By then, some running backs, such as an Alfred Morris, will have plenty of wear on their tires. And as everyone prepares for Super Bowl XLVII, the storylines that follow it will be different than in the past. [+] Enlarge Ric Tapia/Icon SMI/CORBIS The Seahawks get to hang onto Russell Wilson at his current bargain price for two more seasons. Young players such as Kaepernick who help lead their team to the Super Bowl cannot demand new deals the way they seemed to regularly in the past. It used to be like this: Player helps team to Super Bowl, player demands new deal, team rewards player for helping team, new deal gets done. But that was old-school. New-school is the ultimate form of detention for standout young players. The CBA locks up their contracts for three years and throws away the key, with no chance of parole. It would be much more equitable if certain allowances were made for extreme examples, players who glaringly outplay expectations. It would be hard to define what that level of play is, but suffice it to say that everyone would know. Any player who helps lead his team to the Super Bowl in his second year, as Kaepernick has done, or goes to the Pro Bowl in his first year, the way Wilson has, deserves to be rewarded, at least more than his existing rookie deal does. Until the rules are adjusted, the players will continue to be wronged. And after watching Kaepernick and Wilson this season and seeing what they will earn in future seasons, one truth is self-evident: The holes in the CBA are a lot bigger than any they find in opposing defenses. |
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01-26-2013, 08:34 AM | #16 |
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Awww. Bob Dole feels terrible for the guy who will make a minimum of $5.12 million in his first 4 years out of college. How will he ever pay back those student loans???
Oh wait...he probably doesn't have any of those. |
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01-26-2013, 08:35 AM | #17 |
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I have no problem with rookies only making a few million for 3 years before they can get a huge contract.
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01-26-2013, 08:38 AM | #18 |
Arf! Arf! Arf!
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I would love to see the NFL go to a play for pay method of salary determination for players.
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01-26-2013, 08:42 AM | #19 |
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So? He shouldn't make out like a bandit for 9 ****ing games. Let him prove it with sustained play.
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01-26-2013, 08:45 AM | #20 |
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01-26-2013, 08:52 AM | #21 |
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he got paid a full year for not taking a snap....or is that not part of the equation?
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01-26-2013, 08:54 AM | #22 |
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Prove your worth, then get paid.
What is wrong with that? |
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01-26-2013, 09:04 AM | #23 |
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The pussification of the NFL and US in general continues.
How do these "journalist" have jobs? That's the bigger question. Shefter is getting paid to write this tripe? This isn't a ****ing story, its how it works. |
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01-26-2013, 09:12 AM | #24 |
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I'm sure he's starving
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01-26-2013, 09:16 AM | #25 |
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Karen Kornacki worries how Kaepernick will be able to afford xmas.
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01-26-2013, 09:20 AM | #26 |
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So you're telling me we should draft a Qb....
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01-26-2013, 09:25 AM | #27 |
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Too risky. I'm thinking 5 backup O-lineman.
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01-26-2013, 09:26 AM | #28 |
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Oh so a player can't hold a team hostage. So a player finds themselves on the other side. A lot of players, sanchez, make tooo much but yet there isn't a clause to reduce thier contracts.
Life is a bitch and so on.
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01-26-2013, 09:42 AM | #29 |
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They get extra money for post-season games.
I think it's $150,000 for a SB run. Not bad for a month of work. |
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01-26-2013, 09:45 AM | #30 |
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