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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
If the top paid players take discounts, everyone is getting a good share, and teams are all in great salary cap situations, it diminishes urgency to raise the salary cap. Teams up against or over the salary cap is music to the PA's ears. Also these player unions are always focused solely on the top players making as much as possible. Look at what's going on in the NFL right now where QB's are making obscene money and running backs who touch the ball more than any other player outside of the QB are devalued to the point that only punters, long snappers, and fullbacks make less. It's totally unfair but that's part of the business with these player unions where anything considered "team friendly" is frowned on.
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Because the players are too stupid to understand that the mid range on the cap is the actual 50/50 share of the cap. When 20 teams spend over the cap the escrow account goes up, and the players end up giving back 15% of their Gross Pay which is coming back from their NET pay.
They remind me of Shawn Kemp from Seattle, had 10 kids with 9 women and was paying 90% of his Gross pay in child support and wanted to renegotiate his contract because he couldn't "survive". The team owner, not even his agent/adviser had to sit his down and tell him it doesn't matter how much he makes as he still has to pay 90%.