Plays good during regular season but somehow he can't get Dallas over the hump in the playoffs. I wouldn't pay him that much to be honest.
They really had no choice in signing him - the only question is whether they could have gotten away paying less if they had signed him earlier (I have no idea).
It's a tough call for Dallas but what are you supposed to do. He gets them wins, get them into the playoffs just hasn't broken through and perhaps never will.
Damn everyone needs to slow down with upping the yearly average on these deals. They should be outdoing the last by a much smaller amount than they are. 60m for Dak seems wild
Why? The annual revenue for every source within the league goes up annually and new sources are added frequently (think legalized gambling). The salary cap is tied to revenues and individual contracts. The salary cap is tied to revenues. The value of franchises grows faster than the stock market and I don't ever remember a downturn in NFL franchise values. Do you propose that the windfall profits involved in the league should not be shared equitably with the performers?
These QB’s really back their franchises into a corner. The alternative to Dak is much worse and much more unknown as it puts them into a free agency/draft search.
Good points, but it seems like the percentage of cap that a major QB (or other superstar) contract takes up is greater than it was in the past, limiting resources that can be devoted to the rest of the team
I don't blame the players for getting every penny they can, because if the owners weren't making BILLIONS they wouldn't be writing the checks, but when you think of the ridiculous cost of attending games... (average seats $200, $15 beers, $40 to park, etc) $450 for the NFL ticket, games on lame streaming services noone wants to pay for, etc, it's REALLY becoming a turnoff....
People still willing to pay at the end of the day so demand driving costs up. I think social media affected it to, because it now allows you to show the whole world you are at the game, thus creating a demand for that aspect alone. Even just buying the game to watch on a TV is a luxury since they are putting a price behind more and more games. At some point it probably does reach a top but it doesn't seem close at all yet.
It's up to each team to decide for themselves how the cap gets split to give them the most "bang for the bucks." If teams that go for these record setting contracts win games because of it, who are we to complain? Let's complain about the teams that never get a deal done that helps them win. Sound familiar?
