i believe that most people who make such quick conclusions on a player on here are doing it because they are now in a nice situation as far as their e-ego is concerned. if sanchez and/or gholston bust he gets to talk about how he knew it all along until he is blue in the face. if they both become what they are projected to become he gets to be happy that he was wrong because the team benefits, and none of us will really care enough to call him on all his shit because the jets will be a good team.
If Gholston busts? His only chance now is to totally reverse everything he did last year and even that won't be enough for him to earn the contract he received. One year is lost forever so divide his contract by 4 instead of 5 and it comes out to over 8 million per. No chance he will ever earn that.
I love this line: "Signing this deal," he said, "doesn't mean Bart Scott isn't coming after me tomorrow."
didn't Matt Ryan get 74 million last year with like 50 guaranteed? something rediiculous and he was the 3rd or 4th pick.. with that in mind you would have to think that Tanny did a pretty good job with this
I agree it will also work to encourage players not sitting out vol. team activities in order to get a new deal. Mangold did not sit out and should get rewarded first.
There is something seriously wrong with the NFL draft/signing process, if a guy who has yet to play a down, and only started 16 games in college even, is the highest paid player in team history (I think?), while guys who have proven themselves (Mangold, Washington, so on) are left waiting to see what scraps there will be left over for him to pick at. I'm sure Sanchez will be great an all, and this will seem reasonable in a couple years (I'm willing to give him two years to get his legs, unlike some of you who appear to think he will be impact right away & lead us to super bowl, etc etc), but everyone has to concede that there is at least an outside chance that he won't, and he will get boatloads of money for no good reason (see: Ryan Leaf, Gholston, etc, etc, etc -- there are probably hundreds of names on that list).
They're going to have to get rid of the draft to fix this. Then fair market value will apply to each and every player coming out of college, just like it does in the rest of the economy. The top graduates at Harvard Law get absolutely ridiculous salaries compared to their peers around the country, even in their first jobs. The top graduates at MIT, particularly the names that people are buzzing about, get compensation that can be dramatically higher than somebody who has twenty years in the field they are in. That's just the way it is. The NFL's draft is designed to be a leveling process, which in theory creates parity over the long-term. The downside is that the teams then clearly choose who the most valuable properties are and pay them accordingly. Setting up a rookie pay scale like the NBA's would be problematic for the NFL and the NFLPA due to the much shorter career span that NFL players face. Even collective bargaining can be over-turned by the courts if that bargaining is found to discriminate against a class of people bound by it. Rookies could make a very strong case that their rights had been bargained away in a conspiracy to transfer wealth from them to the existing player base in a process that they were unable to participate in. The court challenges would come from multiple directions but the one most likely to succeed would be from players who were retired due to injury while in the portion of their NFL careers fully bound by that agreement. They could argue very effectively that a conspiracy of the owners and the player's association had effectively defrauded them of their rightful compensation, based on historical norms. I think the odds are pretty good that somebody would jump on this fairly quickly if the rookie salary scale was established and that the NFL might have a really nasty Marvin Miller moment not too far down the road. If the NFL owners and players want to establish fair market value for rookies they're going to have to abolish the draft, not create a rookie salary scale.
This is very unexpected, but amazing, news. The numbers look very good as well. Mike T is a great GM.
you tried to tell us yesterday that coaching does not matter in the nfl. not that anybody actually listened to what you said anyway. but your logic regarding pretty much everything is less than adequate.
They really need to implement a sliding rookie scale. Tops picks would still get paid a ton, but wouldn't become richest players in respective franchise history before playing an NFL down. If a top 5 pick doesn't work out, teams are screwed both at a talent and financial level having tremendous impact on success. This is why no one wants top 5 picks anymore.
