Bradford gets $50 mil; Owners Undermine Themselves

JonDMiller

JonDMiller

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How can you give a guy that has never played in the league, a guy that hardly played last year and when he played he had a college all star team around him, how can you give that guy $50 mil? It's the most guaranteed money in NFL history...

And this is a team that has won six or seven games combined the last three years, plays in a stadium that they want to get rid of in a market that really isn't Rams crazy...and yet the owners are going to cry foul that they are giving too much money to the players?

Stupid.
 
JonDMiller said:
How can you give a guy that has never played in the league, a guy that hardly played last year and when he played he had a college all star team around him, how can you give that guy $50 mil? It's the most guaranteed money in NFL history...

And this is a team that has won six or seven games combined the last three years, plays in a stadium that they want to get rid of in a market that really isn't Rams crazy...and yet the owners are going to cry foul that they are giving too much money to the players?

Stupid.
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Stupid is being kind.
 
What were the Rams suppose to do? Draft yet another D-lineman? Give the 50 mil to Suh? They tried to trade down, but had no takers. The Steelers had talks with the Rams only as a ploy, as wake up call for Ben.

The rookie wage scale is coming. Currently, I could be wrong on this, but the players get 57% of the revenue, which will be negotiated down to around 53% with an 18 game schedule. Once all this posturing is done the owners will get what they want and the 50 mil that Bradford got will be a moot point imo.:rolleyes:
 
He's obviously WAAAAAAAY overhyped. Didn't the Rams learn anything from the example set by Iowa with that Keenan Davis guy last year??!! Hahahahahaha, come ON, people! DUH. ROFL, etc, etc.
 
Dear bucketochicken *****,

Why are taking shots at a kid who is a true sophomore that hasn't even played a down this coming year yet? How old is this kid 19?
 
The salaries are getting out of hand. The guaranteed salaries for the #1 pick have doubled in the last 5 years. At least the players aren't coming straight out of high school and getting these salaries.

I'm not a fan of the rams but how are they going to build around that guy with so much money tied up into him.
 
I know the rookie contracts generally escalate 10% but I had read multiple times the Rams were going to play hardball and try to lower his contract to below Stafford's. Obviously they didn't. I think that Eric Berry's deal was ridiculous too.
 
I guess this is like poker to some extent in that you get toa point where you have to go all in!
 
JonDMiller said:
How can you give a guy that has never played in the league, a guy that hardly played last year and when he played he had a college all star team around him, how can you give that guy $50 mil? It's the most guaranteed money in NFL history...

And this is a team that has won six or seven games combined the last three years, plays in a stadium that they want to get rid of in a market that really isn't Rams crazy...and yet the owners are going to cry foul that they are giving too much money to the players?

Stupid.
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I didn't think you'd be the kind of guy to rail against the free market?

Bradford has to get more than what Stafford got last year... based on cost of living increases alone, correct? How do you pay this year's #1 pick less than last years?

It won't change unless they negotiate a rookie salary cap, which goes completely against free market principles. Should CEO's have a salary cap?

Us fans are the ones that allow this. We are stupid enough to pay outrageous prices for tickets, concessions, parking, merchandise, tv access, etc to watch a stupid game of football. If you want to blame anyone, blame ourselves.

Same goes for college sports. Hawkeye season football tickets, priority seating, priority parking, etc have not gotten any cheaper. As long as everyone is willing to pay crazy prices though, they will be glad to rake it in.
 
clonedude said:
I didn't think you'd be the kind of guy to rail against the free market?

Bradford has to get more than what Stafford got last year... based on cost of living increases alone, correct? How do you pay this year's #1 pick less than last years?

It won't change unless they negotiate a rookie salary cap, which goes completely against free market principles. Should CEO's have a salary cap?

Us fans are the ones that allow this. We are stupid enough to pay outrageous prices for tickets, concessions, parking, merchandise, tv access, etc to watch a stupid game of football. If you want to blame anyone, blame ourselves.

Same goes for college sports. Hawkeye season football tickets, priority seating, priority parking, etc have not gotten any cheaper. As long as everyone is willing to pay crazy prices though, they will be glad to rake it in.
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Ummmmm?????????? So Bradford should make more then Brady???
 
imported_Tmoney12 said:
Ummmmm?????????? So Bradford should make more then Brady???
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This has NOTHING to do with being fair. It has to do with the free market.

No... Bradford shouldn't make more than Brady or Manning or Favre or the majority of starting QBs in the NFL. Neither does Stafford. Heck, Bulaga probably makes what Aaron Rodgers makes? Is that fair?

Any halfway decent sports agent is going to get for his player a bit more than what last year's #1 pick Stafford got. Stafford is the highest paid player in the league I believe?

It's not right, but it's what it is. Do we want to cap it? I'd like to cap what CEO's make too, but that won't go over very well I'm sure. It's not fair, in my eyes, that CEO's make 400 times what their average employee makes. But it's the market system. It's capitalism at it's best... like it or not? Get whatever you can!
 
Don't hate the sinner...hate the sin.

If the rules seem sucky, then change them.

I.e. salary cap for rookies x 3 years.
 
They need a rookie salary cap. The NBA has the best model for this in all of pro sports. The #1 pick makes the most, say 3 years/12M, then it is a sliding scale through the rest of the first round. They all get guaranteed $ on 3-year contracts, and then if they have earned it, they get that big contract.

Throwing this insane amount of money at NFL 1st rd picks is ridiculous. Same thing with baseball. These guys need to earn their big contracts, just like the NBA guys do. That being said, TONS of NBA teams hand out horrible contracts all the time. Look at the Knicks.
 
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