RangerDave

That is a valid point. I understand that a sports player's career is short. What does a player making the league minimum make in those 4-year average careers, $2.64M? More than I made in my 40-year career? And it is not like a player can't do something else after his career ends. After a 4 year career, a player has 30-40 years to make more money in another career. And, just going on their name recognition, I would imagine they can get a higher paying "normal" job than I can. And my initial point is that an individual player can afford to take a hometown discount, without suffering in a lower standard of living. That is something that would make me feel a whole lot better about the salaries that players are making nowadays! 😀 EDIT: I also learned a whole lot from Tre White when he signed his contract. When he spoke about "generational wealth", it clicked a light on for me and I understood how important it is for players to make enough money to get them, their families, and their heirs into a world that they otherwise may have been locked out of. I applaud players who use their wealth in a forward-looking manner.

What is it exactly, that a player "can't afford" if they were to take, say, 20% less than a 248 MILLION dollar contract? I understand trying to maximize your contract, but to say a player can't afford not to is just not true. I live quite comfortable on about 1/10 of one percent of what Josh will be making. I have no ill will against players for their contracts because that is apparently what the market will bear. My point is that players who say they need to sign a bigger contract because they have a family to feed are delivering a false narrative. And I do believe that I end up paying for these astronomical contracts indirectly. I pay more for my cable TV, I pay more for products who advertise during football games, and the price of tickets nowadays has priced me out of attending games live. The problem is not just football players, or sports players in general. CEO's and others who make astronomical salaries also raise prices of goods and services I use, too. I will now dismount my horse, high as it might be. 🐴

All of his wounds were "exit wounds"? No entrance wounds?? The poor man must have bullets inside him that spontaneously erupted! (Or his idiot agent is seriously downplaying the incident...)

I really like Oliver, but I think he needs a good supporting cast around him to really shine. He is not large enough to be a dominant player by himself as other teams can focus on him alone and stifle him. With Star back and with better DE play, I have high hopes for him this year. Whether that will be enough to justify a very high 5th year option, I don't know. But with the right cast around him, he can be a special player in year 6 and beyond.

LOL This one is perfect for the Pegulas and their GM's!! 😆

I wonder, too, if some players are looking for a competitive advantage. Everyone can use the "mainstream healthcare machine". Using normal therapies does not give them any additional advantage, since everyone is already using them. What some players are looking for is something that other players don't know about or won't use to give them that edge on the competition. It's why I think some people believe all kinds of nonsense they find on the internet. They feel smarter when they think they know something that the rest of the world does not. This is just a hypothesis not based on any science that I am aware of.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I have now learned something new for today! (I think I'll stick to the little numbers.) 😁

OK, then. Do they have a number for trillion? I took Spanish in high school, but that was so long ago, they didn't have numbers that high!

Brian Moorman. When your punter is your best player for so many years, there is a whole lot of room for improvement in that team!

Do they not have a word for "billion" in Spanish??

Is it possible that this is a case of CYA? Is this the NFL and NFLPA trying to prevent future lawsuits from players who sustain bleeding disorders, saying "We told you not to use it."?

It's interesting that we signed a Tree Walker, after drafting all of those trees! (I assumed he just misspelled his first name.....)

I am no draft expert at all, but in my mind a player who can be a difference maker for a team would be the definition of a "1st round grade", no? I understand that people drafted after round 1 can be great players, but pre-draft, those with the "supposed" potential to help a team win now would be drafted first.

Employees of the federal government can be transferred anywhere in the country (or for some, anywhere in the world) for the "benefit of the government." Military personnel get transferred all the time. Companies downsize or close one location and move jobs elsewhere (even outside the US). Back when I applied for my first permanent job, I had to apply to a central office which would send a stack of applications to an office that had an opening. I had no idea where I could be hired. Of course, all of us could choose to decline the job offer or transfer and look for another job. Boo freaking hoo for a football player who decides to declare for the NFL draft, gets drafted, then opts to sign a huge contract with the team that drafted them.

I think there is a vet minimum, isn't there? What else can they throw in to get it to that level??

Holy cow! I saw a million personal fouls and unsportsman like penalties that were never flagged. The refs were horrible back then!! 🤓

With 15 months' worth of interest! I will say that it does take guts for the NFL to admit they made a mistake, and admit it in such a public manner. They could have just continued to officially agree with the call, while notifying their referees discreetly not to call it again.

Will Rogers never met a man he didn't like. But, then again, he never met Edelman.

I truly have empathy for you and others who suffer from mental illness, as I do for people suffering from physical illnesses.....up to the point where the sufferers kill others. At that point, they are criminals in my book. That leaves 99.9+% of people with mental illnesses in my good graces. The others, not so much.

I was a volunteer member of the Luray Volunteer Rescue Squad in Virginia and used to volunteer Sundays from 4 PM until midnight. I was completely enthralled one afternoon watching the Bills-Niners "no punt game". We got a call in the middle of it! The look on my face when the tones went off was enough that, thankfully, the other two volunteers with me that night said, "Relax. We'll take the call." I was forever indebted to those two guys!

May be true, but it seems like our defense can't defend third and longs lately, so there is always that.

I think this is a good way to separate eras. How do/did they compare to their contemporaries? I also think there is a difference between the greatest passer of all time and the greatest quarterback of all time. Quarterback includes being vital to team success, in my opinion.

If we resigned Matt Barkley, what do you think we could get for HIM in these frothy times??

I could live happily ever after with 14 million guaranteed dollars, even after NY taxes....

And which car is yours, exactly??? 🤑