deacvision7
Mod Emeritus
For the record, I'm against both the salary cap and the draft.
For the record, I'm against both the salary cap and the draft.
They are hypocritical, becasue they would never allow anyone to impose earnings on themselves or their other companies.
I don't understand the argument? If there was no salary cap then the elite players on the seahawks would not be on the seahawks because the seattle market is too small to support insane salaries. Hello Richard Sherman to the Cowboys etc... The elites large market teams would be elite, the rest would get the leftover scraps and a small window to be good through the draft.
I don't understand the argument? If there was no salary cap then the elite players on the seahawks would not be on the seahawks because the seattle market is too small to support insane salaries. Hello Richard Sherman to the Cowboys etc... The elites large market teams would be elite, the rest would get the leftover scraps and a small window to be good through the draft.
This. Case in point, the Seattle Mariners.
I'm anti-draft and pro-cap. I don't think markets should have inherent spending advantages in sports (sports are a distraction from the real world not a reflection) and with a cap and no draft you'd get a better and fairer distribution of talent. Big markets could not horde talent because of the cap and certain markets could overpay for local stars that would be a natural fit to both the player and the organization.
I don't understand the argument? If there was no salary cap then the elite players on the seahawks would not be on the seahawks because the seattle market is too small to support insane salaries. Hello Richard Sherman to the Cowboys etc... The elites large market teams would be elite, the rest would get the leftover scraps and a small window to be good through the draft.
READ what I said. I didn't say "No cap" (although the NFL could it).
wait? who doesn't like the draft? why wouldn't someone like the draft system!?
Drafts are more of the driver of parity in US Sports than the salary cap. Baseball doesn't have have a cap but they generate their parity by having a draft and inhibiting players from getting paid their market value for their first 6-7 major league seasons.
Small market NFL teams could still be competitive without a cap so long as the draft and rookie contracts remained the same (players making near nothing first 4 years).
READ what I said. I didn't say "No cap" (although the NFL could it).
What I DID say was, the NFL should do a Bird Rule with no tax/fee for going over to keep your own players.
I think players should be free to go to whatever team they want to go to as professionals.
I think players should be free to go to the Cowboys, Man U, or the Yankees...er...Mariners. Yeah, I'm a Mariners fan.
I don't understand the argument? If there was no salary cap then the elite players on the seahawks would not be on the seahawks because the seattle market is too small to support insane salaries. Hello Richard Sherman to the Cowboys etc... The elites large market teams would be elite, the rest would get the leftover scraps and a small window to be good through the draft.