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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Guaranteed contracts benefit the lion's share of players. The current system overwhelmingly favors the teams.
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I don't understand this. If you figure that the teams have a certain pile of money to spend on player salaries, they're going to pay players more if they know they'll be off the hook if they can cut the player instead. They'll pay the players less otherwise, knowing that they'll be paying 60 (55? 75?) contracts to have 50 players in uniform.
The current system benefits healthy players vs. injured players. Which is a crapshoot.
It may be that the sort of person who emerges from the collegiate football factories to make the NFL is prone to irrationally underestimate his chances of being injured.
