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Originally Posted by Amnorix
NFL will resist guaranteed contracts to the death, and rightly so. Guaranteed contracts have destroyed baseball and basketball, IMHO.
I'm not saying rookies should be paid peanuts, but the draft is ridiculously topheavy -- 1st round picks make 100x 3rd rounders, who generally get little/no guaranteed money, and top of hte 1st round get paid like they're proven vets.
I'm not arguign to reduce the cap, I'm just saying the $$ should be redistribution as between vets and rookies.
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I don't disagree...I'm just saying the NFL is in a tough predicament with these contracts...not only for rookies, but for veterans...or for guys like Ryan Grant, who makes NOTHING, has the running style that will see him out of the league in two-three seasons...he'll be the featured back for a playoff/super bowl caliber team...and make less than a million dollars (that's just me guessing because he runs so hard he will be out of the league in no time)...
In a perfect world, they would pay based off of performance in all pro sports...but then it would turn into a TO circus of everyone becoming me, me, me, me...
Either way, the NFL is HUGE...and the players get treated far worse (money wise) than any other major American sport.
And in all reality, football does the most long term damage to these players as well...