Don’t forget it was the CIA and the intelligence communities of the world who coordinated the 9/11 attacks, all the while using their drug dollars to fund this subversion of the government of the unlawful UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Did most of that go over your head? Sorry, but its true.

The government has absolutely no right to indoctrinate our children into knowledge that clearly is setting them onto the wrong path. I am fed up with communism being passed off as something that is not communism, and you really need to learn about what exactly is the purpose behind public education.

While you are at it, read Jeremy Brecher’s “Strike!” or Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” to get a reality check about what unions did to benefit workers. If you now, or ever, enjoyed a 40-hour work week, an 8-hour day, days off on a weekend (to watch the NFL), vacation days, sick leave or safe working conditions it is liklely you owe to a debt of gratitude to unions. Don’t forget, it was union members that went into the “Twin Towers” back on September 11, 2001 to save lives while sacrificing their own.

Unions don’t include performance based pay, it’s all based on job classification and seniority. Perform better than expectations and your peers will tell you to slow down.

College players “get by”?

I’m trying to think of a nice way of telling this person that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Personally I’d prefer to see a rule that limits multi-year contracts to just a couple per team. I’d much prefer that the majority of NFL contacts be year to year. I feel that would be an incentive to both the players to maximize their performance and the teams to build in both incentives and penalties.

It’s the owners that want longer contracts.

I just see a lot of solutions looking for a problem here. Player effort is not an issue in the NFL.

Nor do I suspect that you had to train for four to eight years to prepare for a profession where most professionals last only three to five years.
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Olympic athletes and college players seem to get by just fine on far less.

Personally I’d prefer to see a rule that limits multi-year contracts to just a couple per team. I’d much prefer that the majority of NFL contacts be year to year. I feel that would be an incentive to both the players to maximize their performance and the teams to build in both incentives and penalties.

Thanks for messing the deal up for the players!!!!

Another bad idea.

For example, you’d have offensive linemen having to choose between holding a rushing linebacker (maybe saving a play, definitely saving the QB) and losing money.

Most penalties are a result of a player making an extra effort to try to win.

Well, you can’t see much if you’re not looking. FYI the cap was reduce from $128Mil to $120Mil from 2010 to 2011. If you can find some other evidence to what you claim about JR’s mismanagement of the cap, please bring it. Otherwise, you’re just spouting nonsense. Players that improve or prove their worth, get increases in pay moving fromn their rookie contracts to their 2nd contract as a rule. Being a team that is so good at drafting is it’s own curse in the fact that you have so many up for raises.

Also, there is no cap increase(which, BTW, is the mechanism that helps teams keep players due for increases) from 2011 to 2012, so the cap is working against the more successful teams, regardless of their previous mastery of payroll limits. This “roll-over” of unused cap money from one year to the next was designed to increase league wide competition, but will destroy any team that capitalizes on the extra funds when they face the cap the folowing year with a bloated payroll.

I’m attacking the post, not the poster here.

There’s probably nothing I hate more than someone whining about players based on their crappy jobs with the “well, in my line of work” nonsense.

If you don’t like your line of work, by all means, become a professional football player. Do it now, today. Take Victor Cruz’s job, enjoy that $385,000 a year, and glow in your appreciation of it.

What are you waiting for?

Nor do I suspect that you had to train for four to eight years to prepare for a profession where most professionals last only three to five years.

They are not watching you, you choose to watch them. If you are so offended by their compensation find other entertainment.

tommyf15, It could work if it were based on stats and starts. how about every 100 yards is worth an extra 10,000 dollars on top of the contract. Touchdownss could be worth 20 grand. catches are 1000 dollars each. Examples of course, but everyone would be equal and the best perormers would make the most money.

Problem there is some players would even be bigger arseholes about not getting enough touches and the divas would run wild.

That’s totally ridiculous.

It’s a one way street alright- if a team feels a player isn’t producing enough to justify the money, the team just cuts the player.

If a player is outperforming his contract, the player is stuck.

Performance based baby.

Even if you think that’s a good idea, how can one objectively evaluate performance and then translate that into dollars?

I ask that question rhetorically- there isn’t a way.

Guys like Canty, Webster, Rolle, etc, you know , guys who just brought you a title? Turns out they make a lot of money.

Tuck never signed a huge deal, Osi is crying about his money, Nicks is on his rookie deal and wasn’t a top 10 guy, same with JPP.

They didn’t have the money to bring back Smith or Boss last year and they won’t have any money to pay Cruz this year. Without looking for their salary cap numbers, this makes no sense at all. Not even the offensive line is what it was a few years ago.

Reese has done a great job finding talent and Coughlin has done an amazing job coaching them up but Reese leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to manipulating the cap.