The #Eagles and Jalen Hurts agreed to terms on a 5-year, $255M contract extension that makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
The #Eagles and Jalen Hurts agreed to terms on a 5-year, $255M contract extension that makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history, sources tell me and @TomPelissero.
NorthHawk wrote:I’ve been saying this for a while but somehow the NFL is going to have to give teams some type of exemption for one contract to mitigate the impact of huge salaries. It would probably be used for QBs, but could be used for any player each year for Cap relief.
The owners probably won’t want to do that but they risk losing popular players and maybe some support if those players leave for more pay. That’s what it looks like to me.
It currently puts more emphasis on drafting young QBs as their first contracts are so much cheaper.
RiverDog wrote:
Rather than an exemption, I'd rather see them put some sort of percentage cap on salaries, no more than X% of payroll to any given player. You give them an exemption and it's essentially raising the salary cap by 15% or whatever. Besides, I get a little tired of blowing so much smoke up these quarterback's hind ends.
Either that or just leave it alone. Let the market correct itself.
NorthHawk wrote:Which is why if you have some type of exemption, the QB (or other player like, say Aaron Donald in his highest Cap hit year) could give the team some Cap relief.
The fans keep their passion and the team keeps a valued player.
Either that, or really bump up the Cap by something outrageous amount, but that would just increase all salaries and the owners wouldn't want that.
NorthHawk wrote:Which is why if you have some type of exemption, the QB (or other player like, say Aaron Donald in his highest Cap hit year) could give the team some Cap relief.
The fans keep their passion and the team keeps a valued player.
Either that, or really bump up the Cap by something outrageous amount, but that would just increase all salaries and the owners wouldn't want that.
c_hawkbob wrote:I like the NBA's soft cap/luxury tax that allows teams to keep their exceptional players while sending the luxury tax to more fiscally responsible teams thus disincentivizing overspending monsters like the Yankees (at least like the Yankees used to be when I was still paying attention to baseball).
jshawaii22 wrote:This year, the GS Warriors will pay more in "Luxury Tax" then about 1/2 the other teams total payrolls.
On the other side of the NBA coin, no matter how much the games actually generates in income, some owners only care about the $$$ that's going into their pockets at the end of the day and you'll never have equity. Baseball is the worst, by far.
The NFL hard cap is the only way to keep the teams at least somewhat competitive level. Unless the owners want to give up more of their profit (right now I think it's 50/50 or close) this is not going to change.
There is a minimum $$$ that all teams must pay out in salary.
NorthHawk wrote:Parity is the reason the NFL is so popular. Every team has a chance to build a team with the same amount of money and the best combinations of GMs and Coaches win out.
NorthHawk wrote:It doesn't have to be a QB. It can be a DE like, SF could use it on a new contract for Bosa because they don't have an expensive QB. The Rams could use it for Aaron Donald, and the Titans for Jeffery Simmonds.
It would probably be used mostly for QBs, but the point is it doesn't have to, and it can change from year to year.
Current example is the Eagles, the report for Hurts new contract of $255M are Cap hits of (from PFT) 'Via Schefter, the numbers are: $6.15 million in 2023; $13.56 million in 2024; $21.77 million in 2025; and $31.77 million in 2026'.
So they could use that exemption on any player other than Hurts until it hits hard in 2026 and they could keep some of their other stars as their contracts come up for renewal.
And it doesn't have to be a full exemption. It could be a percentage like 33% or maybe 50%.
As far as helping teams keep their star QB's? The competitive advantage is finding one, and if you have one, you don't give him up unless there is some conflict of personalities or goals.
NorthHawk wrote:Which is why if you have some type of exemption, the QB (or other player like, say Aaron Donald in his highest Cap hit year) could give the team some Cap relief.
The fans keep their passion and the team keeps a valued player.
Either that, or really bump up the Cap by something outrageous amount, but that would just increase all salaries and the owners wouldn't want that.
Current example is the Eagles, the report for Hurts new contract of $255M are Cap hits of (from PFT) 'Via Schefter, the numbers are: $6.15 million in 2023; $13.56 million in 2024; $21.77 million in 2025; and $31.77 million in 2026'.
jshawaii22 wrote:That is $ 75 million over 5 years. So that's obviously not including any of the 'signing bonus' etc. That has to be divided over the length of the contract to get the true cap hit. I saw on NFL that he's the highest paid QB now at $51 million / yr. Or what am I missing?
obiken wrote:1. No QB will go to a SB if their Salaries are over 40 million a year. 2. I just dont see the Owners guaranteeing money over long term for non qb players, they just cant. 3.I was a big fan of the cap when it came out, now I am not.
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