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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan
I'm not shedding any tears for Denver.
They got tired of the QB carrousel and went after a veteran and it backfired.
But if several NFL franchises really get hosed with multi 100 million guaranteed contracts for horrible QBs, I wonder if the league doesn't need to think about capping that at some point.
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If they didn't step in when crap guys like Andy Dalton and Joe Flacco were re-setting the market, they never will.
Technically the top contracts for positions are continuing to rise alongside the QB contracts, so I doubt the NFLPA will get involved, but at some point, we might see some splintering in that union between the majority of dudes and those super stars.
Like, has the vet minimum increased much over the past 10 years? If at all? What about the rookie wage scale? The players' union does a piss poor job of looking out for the interests of the majority of its members who don't make those insane deals, and if they ever organize among themselves within the union to do something about it, then I think things will even out across the board.
I know the stud QBs are the most valuable parts of the team by far. I get it. But it still sucks that the big uglies who are rookies or on vet min deals sustain 60+ collisions per game like that and have to sacrifice more of their bodies to make what they do. Same goes for RBs. McKinnon has been sliced and diced his entire career. He's still getting touches and getting abused because that's the nature of his job. And what's he making?