re: Shady McCoy throws a jab at Drew on PMT

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I can totally see this. Selfish arse should have retired two years earlier.

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Drew was underpaid give his production for several years and he never once whined about it.

Perhaps the salary cap could be higher, but then again it's never gonna be high enough in a victim/grievance culture like ours.

I hope you're not insinuating that A salary cap is the problem. The salary cap is what creates a league where every team could truly be only 2-3 years away even if they're terrible now, and any one of as many as 18 teams could win it all in a given year.

That dynamic is what created the most popular American sport and the financial monster that is the NFL. I'd contend that the salary cap is RESPONSIBLE for the insane salaries these guys today get-- even when they're "underpaid".

I promise you, there's not NEARLY the money coming in if we're seeing the "Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and Astros of the NFL" winning the spending title every year and everyone else hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.


Unfortunately the NFL players and even big-time college players seem to forget that fans are more important than they are. "We" pay their salaries by buying apparel, going to games, and paying for cable/justifying ungodly advertising dollars.

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if they take friendly deals it screws over other qbs coming up

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LOL, making 40 mil instead of 50 mil is getting screwed?

At one point didn't we have like 1/4 of the cap going towards players not even on the roster? I'd say that is a bigger payroll issue than paying a 1st ballot HOF QB

My recollection is tha Brees did take a team friendly contract at some point.

Brees was so good he almost got Jimmy Graham into the Hall of Fame.

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Shady McCoy has no fricking idea about anything saints related

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Just like the dumbass tacky sweater

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He also made some remarks kind of mocking Brees and others for their efforts

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And his team smoked brees and the saints when they played

What ticks me off is the shake down deals that players Always get away with now.

For these purposes I will use a DE.

A DE player comes in and is offered a 4 year/$50 million dollar deal with $40 guaranteed.

You get that money in years 1-3 whether you have 5 sacks or 15 sacks...They are paying you to be productive.

So now you enter Year 4 and you want to hold out (Chris Jones) for a better deal.

Now at this point there has to be a mutual agreement...the team wants you past Year 4 and will make a solid offer or they are willing to let you be a FA.

There should be no holding out. You signed a deal honor it.

If the team want to extend you a new deal then Year 4 should still be intact...If you are due $8 million for Year 4 then you get $8 million in Year 4...You can make $20 million next year if they want.