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Originally Posted by Willie Lanier
I understand your perspective and in theory it's a novel idea; but there are numerous consequences when structuring deals that way...
1 - the nflpa would lose their minds if something like that happened, all players would be under unfair scrutiny if they didn't follow suit and "take one for the team's potential future success" and that's an unfair burden to put on not only future FAs but the player in question as well...
2 - Tom Brady's career is an anomaly. He was financially set for a long while now considering his insanely wealthy wife, so that argument really needs to be thrown out of the discussion.
In a fantasy world in which players cared more about team success over personal gain, sure you have some talking points; but that world is just that, a fantasy
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Not true. Players take discounts to play for SB contending teams all the time. They aren't huge discounts but it does happen.
Also, Brady was taking discounts way before he met his wife.