Todd Gurley cut by the Rams, picked up by the Falcons

[Joe Sixpack]

Smh the Falcons

I wanted the Steelers to sign him

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

NFC South looking wild on paper

Bucs
Brady, Evans, Godwin, OJ Howard

Saints
Brees, Kamara, Thomas

Falcons
Ryan, Gurley, Julio, Ridley

Panthers
Bridgewater, CMC, DJ Moore

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

Rams went from Marshall GOAT to Steven Jackson to Todd Gurley....all in their primes.

By far the best RB turnover since the beginning of the millennium.

broncos probably the closest

 

[RubioTheCruel]

It's probably the smart move. Draft a young guy, run him into the ground, let another team pay for him on the back end. The game is cold but it's fair

 

[Smitty Belafonte]

Ouch.

 

[Xerces]

They still have Ryan. Same crap, different year

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[who_better_than_me]

This is NFL Salary cap 101


They chose to go all in for basically 1 year return on their investment

When Dallas dont go big in Free agency, Im never mad. Just look at the Rams..

DONE!

dallas was the poster child for goin all in in spite of the salary cap implications and consequently living in cap hell.

 

[YOGEBEAR09]

He'll always be a Ram to me

 

[Marc Spector]

thank god he didnt go to Seattle

 

[Womb Raider]

Chiefs had mean RBs too

Priest to Larry to Jamaal to Kareem to Damien

Damien not quite on their level but he is nice

Kareem is just OP in real life

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

If the Falcons got Cam

 

[MJ Truth]

If you need more laborers then you need to devote more money to labor. Football players have shorter career windows and put a lot more of their life of the line, the fact that the owner needs more of them to make the team go means they should get a bigger slice of the pie, not that he can just pay them all less.

The whole way that football salaries (or any other American sports league) work is a total scam. Can you imagine if all the tech companies got together and agreed to limit how much they paid their employees? It's an illegitimate monopoly - they should force teams to act as independent businesses and compete for players, and salaries would skyrocket.

Not really. The TOP salaries would skyrocket, but mediocre, average, and low tier players would be playing for peanuts, because theres so many guys desperate to play in the league. Unions aren't for the highest earners, it's to protect the majority of players who make lower money and would make even lower money without a CBA.

 

[filial_piety]

purely from a money/production angle, I get the move by the rams...but the nfl is a ruthless business