[Discuss Thrower]

Berry is 100% within the right to seek the maximum amount of compensation a team would be willing to give him. The team is 100% within reason to offer Berry a contract that belies his worth to winning games. If these two directives can't be arbitrated then it's likely Berry will find a team willing to meet almost 100% of his wants even though he likely won't play to that salary value from the team's perspective.

Same can be said for pretty much every player that's received top dollar for their respective position in particular or as a football player in general.

I've yet to be convinced JJ Watt is worth every penny he's accounting for in the Texans' salary cap because of how much of an opportunity cost Houston has exchanged in signing FAs or extending drafted players. The same has been said ad nauseum for the guys at the more important position in Luck and Flacco and an argument can be made that the same applies to Justin Houston and Von Miller as well.

"The market" is out of whack for correctly valuing a player's worth to a team seeking a championship, IMO. But it's tough to really make a big deal about it when you consider how much of a physical sacrifice players make in order to enrich a bunch of billionaire jerkoffs.