football contracts look weak compared to other sports

[Rocket Scientist]

thats still not true.

can you at least tell us where did u get the stat from ?

I heard it on what was it NFL Live..... yea go ahead and clown. I was 1300 yards from scrimmage (rushing+receiving yards for those who dont know) in 4 straight seasons had to been done. They were saying not many had at least 900 yards rushing and 400 receiving

 

[tru_m.a.c]

personally, I honestly think there should be a:

- minimum salary for starters (this one is hard to work out, cause you may be a starter but hardly used depending on who you're playing against)
- % of roster cap for individual players (see, Qbs All)
- % of roster cap for your top x players (flexibility allowed)
- a player option for the franchise tag that swings it back to the players (so with matt forte, if the franchise tag was 8mil a yr, he had to take it or sit out the year. So why don't we do it like this. Allow him to sign the tag, but if he plays out the year (and meets the requirements of his previous contract) then he gets the franchise tag as his new yearly salary along with, lets say, a guaranteed 3-5 yr contract.

 

[yseJ]

I heard it on what was it NFL Live..... yea go ahead and clown. I was 1300 yards from scrimmage (rushing+receiving yards for those who dont know) in 4 straight seasons had to been done. They were saying not many had at least 900 yards rushing and 400 receiving

the second is somewhat true (only a few guys had it- faulk, barber, thurman thomas), but its pure cherry picking. tons of dudes had like 1000+ rushing yards/350-370 yards receiving season stuck in between multiple 900/400 seasons

Im not tryin to clown breh, just this stat was so outlandish I was like

 

[SubLyminalz]

The NFL is rougher on the body. Risk of concussions.

Edit: Ray Rice just signed a 5yr/40 mill deal. Aint he a top 3 back?

He should be gettin at least 10 mil per

running backs have shorter careers than other positions so its a risk giving them a bunch of money, and guaranteed money is whats the most important anyway never mind the contract numbers.

u have 30-35 year old quarterbacks getting paid 90-100 million contracts


moral of the story if you want your son to play football get his arm right or feed him junkfood and make him live in the weightroom

 

[yseJ]

on topic, I agree that football players are getting too little compared to what the league is making (at least imo)

baseball players are getting guaranteed millions and shyt. although, some baseball teams bring in like 20-30k people per home game, and they have 80 games...

on other hand, baseball rosters are like 25 people. basketball is even less. football has 53 players on active roster. a lot of them are getting minimum, but shyt still adds up.

I know if u lookin for that money, football will get you more short term, but long term baseball is still king. like people said already, if youre a lefty starter with at least decent stuff, youll be in demand at one point or the other. at the very least youll get somewhat decent money in the minors, which will be better than whatever you get on practice squad IIRC

 

[Juven]

Its gotten to the point where kickers have it better than running backs.

 

[jfkennedy]

how much did Forte get UP FRONT? 4 years $32 million for the only running back in history to have 1300 yards from scrimmage for 4 straight seasons. I know he aint AD but damn...

 

[Goat poster]

Yeah it really does help. What keeps the status quo of the league is:
- Strict cap limits force players/management to actually care about money allocation (for example: players don't just become expiring contracts/dead money thats still in the system affecting all of the other current players)

- veterans really do players that they don't feel deserve contracts (see the rookie wage scale debate)

- the game's popularity does not share a relationship with the INDIVIDUAL players popularity and the INDIVIDUAL team (i.e the tiger woods effect)

This is why the NFL is

 

[chuckifubuck]

add to that 3 mandatory years in college where he could get injured at any moment and I am definitely steering my future son away from football

 

[tru_m.a.c]

on topic, I agree that football players are getting too little compared to what the league is making (at least imo)

baseball players are getting guaranteed millions and shyt. although, some baseball teams bring in like 20-30k people per home game, and they have 80 games...

on other hand, baseball rosters are like 25 people. basketball is even less. football has 53 players on active roster. a lot of them are getting minimum, but shyt still adds up.

I know if u lookin for that money, football will get you more short term, but long term baseball is still king. like people said already, if youre a lefty starter with at least decent stuff, youll be in demand at one point or the other. at the very least youll get somewhat decent money in the minors, which will be better than whatever you get on practice squad IIRC

seems to me, baseball players are on a welfare system

 

[South Paw]

MLB players aren't even athletes and they getting paid millions on guaranteed contracts

 

[Rocket Scientist]

the second is somewhat true (only a few guys had it- faulk, barber, thurman thomas), but its pure cherry picking. tons of dudes had like 1000+ rushing yards/350-370 yards receiving season stuck in between multiple 900/400 seasons

Im not tryin to clown breh, just this stat was so outlandish I was like

Its all good homie I should have did more research. Thats a tight stat tho

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Cats might laugh but the only position where you can have long term success and not many life threatening injuries is Kicker-Punter.Sure you might get the blame and alot of pressure but you still apart of the team. The problem is not many brothas are kickers and punters

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Its gotten to the point where kickers have it better than running backs.

Thats the thing... Kickers can play 20+ years so they still raking in the $$$ the problem is...when it comes to football,Not many of us (blacks) want our sons,brothers to be the kicker. Kickers are looked at "soft". I believe none of us rememeber or have seen a black field goal kicker. (Reggie Roby was a Punter R.I.P).

 

[King Jove]

they still gettin paid.

shyt, i could do well for myself with 1 mill a year over 8 years

you don't need bugatti's & hublots