Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17176846)

Let’s all remember and appreciate that Patrick mahomes was instructed by his agent to do minimal endorsements early in his career that might distract him. When he negotiated his contract he gave the chiefs room to build around him. It was only years later before he capitalized on endorsements and only recently where he’s building up his assets and getting a contract that pays his worth.

There’s so much more to mahomes than just his individual raw talent. I will always despise any comparison that doesn’t consider his character and leadership

Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 17176863)

If I had the first pick I'd take Drake Maye without hesitation. Caleb Williams would be off my board. He's a narcissist that can't get enough of himself to think he deserves anything without proving himself.

Bradford, Mayfield, Kyler. He's the next OU QB to go 1st overall and bust

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17176996)

I wouldn't be excited to take Williams because of his size for one thing.

Is he for sure even 6 foot tall/

Originally Posted by Couch-Potato (Post 17178435)

A league wide % negotiated by the players union could be interesting at some point. Could provide some stability to retired players, which has been a black spot on the league for years. Maybe use this to balance states with low taxes like FL and TX, the % owned by players in those states would be less. Otherwise, contract salaries will get out of control.

Say 10% of the team is owned by the players and ex-players based on an algorithm designed around how often you played and the impact you made for the franchise. As % get smaller for the players over the years, the value of the franchises increase balancing the scale some, until eventually the players union negotiates a bigger stake.

Originally Posted by Kiimo (Post 17176944)

It will never happen because this report is bullshit and the NFL already voted it down. Here's a good summary:

“it's actually sourced to a report (of admittedly debatable veracity) from Florio in July that said Williams's camp had suggested it could pursue an ownership share from whatever team drafts him. Importantly, this allegedly happened prior to the NFL explicitly banning the practice.

It resurfaced because aggregating non-journalist Dov Kleiman inexplicably posted about it yesterday as if it was a new development or as if it wasn't something the league had already ruled against

And now because social media is awful and news literacy is nonexistent, you have other shit aggregator accounts piggybacking off Dov's post and people are blowing up over a months-old story about a guy's agency possibly asking for something in negotiations that were later ruled to be off limits. Grim news reality especially on X”

This is why I unfollowed Dov Kleiman. I mean this is a twice-regurgitated story that originated with FLORIO??? Just delete this thread.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17176429)

It's a literal impossibility with the cap.

How do you even assign a value to it? The ownership interest is of theoretically unlimited value. And of perpetual duration.

You can't calculate that in the salary cap at all.

It's just a functionally reeruned ask.

Originally Posted by Hamwallet (Post 17178443)

The owners would never go for that. They would tell the NFLPA to start their own league and build their own stadiums. If the players strike it’s simply the next man up. After a few months of no game checks come fall, 90% of the players would be broke and cross the picket line.

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 17176490)

Nah, accountants exist for a reason.

Typically equity acquisitions are Cash in exchange for shares/equity percentage.

CBA dictates for rookies there is a scale and game checks. So each game, they withhold his check and exchange it on the balance sheet for equity (surely these are all corporations so we'll go with shares).

So each check, caleb gets some shares, but no cash. So after his rookie contract, he 41M of equity in whatever shit franchise is out there, let's say the Faid - they're giving shit away. Franchise is worth 6.2 Billion.

Congrats, Caleb, you get .66% of the Faid. Oh, and 5 years of tax liability on 41M. Oh, and by the way, Faid are cash poor so there won't be any dividends.


Enjoy, bitch.



I believe I was early on this when he said "there's nothing he (Mahomes) can do that I can't."