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thunderkyss said:
I don't know why the owners would be too worried about this.

If it fits under the cap, it fits under the cap. NFLPA can talk to its members about living in a new world.
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Because all guaranteed $$ has to immediately be put in escrow.

The team is paying 46m in the first year and another 184m in escrow .... where they can't make their own money work for them. That's a big deal.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
NFL insider notes: Deshaun Watson's game-changing deal and its ramifications hottest topic at owners meetings
Most of the NFL isn't happy about the Browns' QB contract; here's what else has the owner's meetings buzzing
https://www.cbssports.com/writers/jason-la-canfora/
By Jason La Canfora 1 hr ago8 min read

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Deshaun Watson trade and subsequent contract extension continue to send shockwaves around the league, and it will, unquestionably, be the primary topic of all informal discussion at the NFL's owners meetings this week here in West Palm Beach.
There won't be anything on the formal agenda about it, but, trust me, the entire league (team presidents, owners, general managers) is still buzzing about the unprecedented contract, and all of the angst, turmoil and tumult it will cause for other organizations moving forward. Dee and Jimmy Haslem, with one negotiation, created a bold new horizon in terms of player compensation that may transform the way NFL players are paid to an extent that nothing previously has.

It is a complete and utter game-changer. And the rest of the league, by and large, is not happy about it.

For a player in this much peril, facing suspension for allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct – with 22 civil cases still pending – to receive an $11 million a year raise, landing a fully guaranteed $230M contract without ever signing an autograph or doing a public appearance for the Browns, let alone playing a down, is staggering. The reality moving on is that, immediately, every quarterback of any distinction will be seeking no-trade language and fully guaranteed contracts, whether they be three years in length or seven. It is now the new norm that all agents will seek.


Make no mistake, the business of football – for now, at the highest price-points for QBs; eventually for other positions as well – has changed forever. There is no going back now ... not for Haslam, not for any owner. I was chatting about this with longtime NFL team president Joe Banner over the weekend, and on top of all of the already-noted consequences of this contract, he pointed out another I hadn't been focused on: the NFL's regulations for funding fully guaranteed contracts.

Per current league rules, all future fully guaranteed money due in a player contract must be placed in escrow at the time the deal is consummated. It's antiquated and has long been a bone of contention for the NFLPA. It was implemented long before the NFL became the 365-days-a-year revenue and content monster it is now, and it was put in place on the surface to prevent a team from defaulting on a contract to a player. Yeah, quaint, ain't it? Those days are long gone, but for decades many owners have hidden behind it as an excuse as to why they wouldn't guarantee more than a year or two. I can't go around putting $50M, $60M, $100M, in escrow every time someone wants a fully guaranteed deal. Only, well, Haslam just put about $185M in escrow to make good on what he still owes Watson beyond 2022 (and he did so by also only putting $1M in the QB's base salary to limit any financial damage to him by an upcoming suspension).

So, yeah, that's over.

Either other owners are going to step up like he did, or suddenly these billionaires are going to decide that the union was right all along, and these escrow accounts are a silly idea from a bygone time and let's do away with that! Because the cost of doing business for top starting quarterbacks is now $45M-$50M a year, fully guaranteed, and Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson will be the next three to benefit from this paradigm shift. The first two will either get similar structure and language in extensions with their current teams or will end up dealt to an owner who will provide it; the Broncos are locked into doing as much with Wilson after just trading a haul of picks and players to land him with just two years left on his outdated contract.



This Watson deal may have just drawn another delineation between the wealthy and the uber-wealthy within the ownership group. Or those willing to spend like the Haslams, and those who will not embrace the reality of five-year, $250M fully guaranteed deals. Like it or not, this Watson deal has ushered the NFL into the kind of financial outlays that have long been the norm in the NBA and MLB. If Watson got this, under these dire personal circumstances, how long until the NFL gets its first $300M (fully guaranteed) man? It's suddenly much closer than anyone would have dreamt 10 days ago. What does this mean for guys like Bengals owner Mike Brown and Chargers owner Dean Spanos, who haven't been known as notoriously heavy spenders but have extension talks with Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert looming in less than a year?

"In this case, next March 1, the Browns are going to have to deposit I believe the number is close to $180M in what amounts to an escrow account, where the guaranteed money gets held that is owed to the player in the future," Banner told me during a discussion on Inside Access on 1057 The Fan in Baltimore. "... Not when you think about a quarterback like Lamar Jackson in a market like Baltimore, or a (Joe) Burrow in Cincinnati or (Justin Herbert) in L.A., but what really in terms of economics is the San Diego team, I don't know if those owners are going to be in a position to put $140M, $150M, $180M into an escrow account nine months from now. I'm not sure that's something all teams can do."

In the interim, if Steve Bisciotti (Ravens) or Michael Bidwell (Cardinals) don't think operating like this is good business, then it only takes one other owner who isn't fearing this sudden sticker shock to find a suitor. Find two, and you have a robust trade market. Panthers owner David Tepper's desperate pursuit of QB help is well documented, Arthur Blank was willing to pay top QB compensation to Matt Ryan for the duration of his time in Atlanta, and Seattle has never feared a big payroll and suddenly has a need at QB, too.


"This is actually a huge advantage to high revenue, high profit teams, and a huge disadvantage to the smaller-market teams," Banner said. "And I suspect the league will do something about this. Maybe not affecting Deshaun but going forward, because I know they get accused of greed when it comes to this and I'm not going to fight them on it, but this rule comes down to competitive balance, which they really, really do care about.

"They think it's what has made the league successful and profitable, so they won't want to leave it in a situation where the Cincinnatis and Baltimores of the world may be at a competitive disadvantage because of the structure of this deal. So I'm looking forward to seeing how they address that, because I don't think there is any chance they don't address it in some way. And in the meantime, the Baltimores of the world are in a much more difficult situation than they were previously in terms of trying to re-sign these guys. The number goes higher. The guarantee goes higher, but so do some of these behind-the-scenes kind of nuanced issues that the public may not see that often. They're going to have a huge impact on places like Baltimore."

This will be the discussions going on as owners eat lunch and dine together. It will be what's whispered in hallways. It very well could lead to meaningful trade talks in real time, given the sweeping blockbusters that have already taken the league by storm so early in this offseason. The stakes have been raised, exponentially, and the ramifications have only just begun.

All eyes on sale of Broncos

One of the items other owners are most interested to glean from these meetings are updates on the sale of the Broncos. It's been clear for years that in 2022 this team was going to go to market, and there has been plenty of vetting already done behind the scenes. This was no surprise.

The closer this price goes to $4 billion, the happier these billionaires will be. For a multitude of reasons. If it approaches that number, many in league circles believe it will prompt other owners who have been sitting on the sidelines to begin to elicit purchase invites for their franchise. Post-pandemic (for now at least), with the business of football booming and with more sponsorship and broadcast deals (Sunday Ticket) and gambling revenue still to come, and the game growing internationally now beyond just the United Kingdom, there are dollar signs in the eyes of many owners.

The Seahawks will only stay in the Allen family for so long. Saints owner Gayle Benson has already announced she will sell that team at some point. There are plenty of rumblings about other owners not being as enthralled with ownership as they once were, and eyeing 2022/2023 as the opportunity time to cash out. For now, all eyes remain on Denver, and a transaction that several league sources believe will be complete by October. Perhaps even sooner.
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maverick512000 said:
Interesting read about how the new CBA plays into this.

sports.yahoo.com

Roger Goodell no longer has final say on whether Deshaun Watson violated NFL's personal conduct policy

According to a source, that decision is expected to be placed in the hands of former U.S. District Court Judge Sue Robinson, who has been chosen by the NFL and NFLPA to act as an arbitrator.
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With it being a woman judge I wonder if that will help, hurt or have no effect on her decision? As a US court judge she has certainly seen her share of guilty and innocent people. I'm actually happy its not in Goodells hands because with it being a neutral party that was agreed upon by both union and league if he is suspended the chances of its getting lower or overturned drastically decrease.
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Corrosion said:
Because all guaranteed $$ has to immediately be put in escrow.

The team is paying 46m in the first year and another 184m in escrow .... where they can't make their own money work for them. That's a big deal.
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Exactly, not all the owners can just drop a quarter of a billion dollars into the bank for one player. In theory, and yes this would be hard but it is possible, the super rich owners could use this as a way to buy players. Less money so it stays under the cap but all of it guaranteed would entice a lot of players. Again in theory it could lead to what you see in MLB where small market teams have no chance of keeping up with the spending of the big money ones and with only 32 teams the NFL has to maintain the image that even small market teams could come in and win it all.

Its why, as much as fans didn't like it, the NFL loved the Rams vs Bengals super bowl. A small market team that had just kind of been there and a large market team that couldn't put butts in seats but the NFL really wanted to grow big and they are meeting in the championship game. If ever there was a case to be made for a season being rigged this year was it.
 
Corrosion said:
Because all guaranteed $$ has to immediately be put in escrow.

The team is paying 46m in the first year and another 184m in escrow .... where they can't make their own money work for them. That's a big deal.
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How much money has Haslem given to Tennessee? Like 40m or so as a gift. The money isn't working for him in that instance,right? This dude owns Pilot/Flying J truck stops. This dude making money hand over fist.
 
maverick512000 said:
Exactly, not all the owners can just drop a quarter of a billion dollars into the bank for one player. In theory, and yes this would be hard but it is possible, the super rich owners could use this as a way to buy players. Less money so it stays under the cap but all of it guaranteed would entice a lot of players. Again in theory it could lead to what you see in MLB where small market teams have no chance of keeping up with the spending of the big money ones and with only 32 teams the NFL has to maintain the image that even small market teams could come in and win it all.

Its why, as much as fans didn't like it, the NFL loved the Rams vs Bengals super bowl. A small market team that had just kind of been there and a large market team that couldn't put butts in seats but the NFL really wanted to grow big and they are meeting in the championship game. If ever there was a case to be made for a season being rigged this year was it.
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Then they should just sell and get out the game like KMart, Sears, Borders, etc..
 
Corrosion said:
Because all guaranteed $$ has to immediately be put in escrow.

The team is paying 46m in the first year and another 184m in escrow .... where they can't make their own money work for them. That's a big deal.
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I did not know this until the Watson contract.

It'll be interesting to see if this contract starts a new trend. Those billionaires aren't going to like it, though. I'm sure they are already trying to figure out a way to change that rule. lol

leebigeztx said:
Yall know who's gonna coming up on a new stadium? NRG is over 20 years old correct?
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Yep. John McClain has already started shilling for it on their behalf. They have to wait until the dust settles, of course, (and maybe win more games than they lose lol), but I fully expect our local billionaire football team owners to have their hands out in the not too distant future.

And they'll do it because they can.
 
Lucky said:
That's a self-imposed rule they could change at any time. It has been used as an excuse to not fully guarantee player contracts.
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It's written into the CBA.

Because of that it's not so easy to change and I don't believe the players would let it happen, it might allow for teams to default on guaranteed deals in some circumstances and the NFL-PA is having none of that.


leebigeztx said:
How much money has Haslem given to Tennessee? Like 40m or so as a gift. The money isn't working for him in that instance,right? This dude owns Pilot/Flying J truck stops. This dude making money hand over fist.
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How much money he may have given away or how much he makes is irrelevant to changing how business is done.

Bottom line, money makes money and most of these billionaires are leveraged to the hilt. Their net worth may be stated in billions but that's not "Cash In Hand".


That's a quarter billion they can't put to work between now and the time its paid out.

This has the potential to break the league into haves and have nots both as franchises and player earnings. The rich will get richer and everyone else will suffer a decline.

It'll look like MLB where small market teams are the farm system for the deep pocket teams.
 
Corrosion said:
It's written into the CBA.

Because of that it's not so easy to change and I don't believe the players would let it happen, it might allow for teams to default on guaranteed deals in some circumstances and the NFL-PA is having none of that.



How much money he may have given away or how much he makes is irrelevant to changing how business is done.

Bottom line, money makes money and most of these billionaires are leveraged to the hilt. Their net worth may be stated in billions but that's not "Cash In Hand".


That's a quarter billion they can't put to work between now and the time its paid out.

This has the potential to break the league into haves and have nots both as franchises and player earnings. The rich will get richer and everyone else will suffer a decline.

It'll look like MLB where small market teams are the farm system for the deep pocket teams.
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In a sense, but as stated, they can change that when they want. All it takes are a couple of owners crying about what they don't have and they will change the rule. Its really about time these guys get more guarantee money with what they put their bodies through honestly. Its a steep cost physically to play it so the reward will start to catchup.
 
Mr teX said:
its the holding money in an escrow account thing according to the article CND posted. Apparently all NFL owners arent richly equal.

but wb salaries are the main thing driving salaries higher. They need to be capped imo. What that will do is enable GM’s to better forecast for team building purposes and it leaves money on the table to pay other less heralded position players.

thats why ive never understood why media members always wanna talk to Qb’s when collective bargaining talks are happening. These guys would be the least effected if a work stoppage/lockout took place.
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The NFL is going to become even more of a have/have not league.

It's going to become even more imperative that your QB be on his rookie deal or at most a couple of yrs out from their rookie deals for teams to be able to win a championship.

You would think owners would look at history and learn from it, but I guess not.
 
Corrosion said:
It's written into the CBA.
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The language in the CBA states that it is discresenary on the league's part.

"The NFL may require that by a prescribed date certain, each Club must deposit into a segregated account the present value, calculated using the Discount Rate, less $15,000,000 (the “Deductible”), of deferred and guaranteed compensation owed by that Club with respect to Club funding of Player Contracts involving deferred or guaranteed compensation; provided, however, that with respect to guaranteed contracts, the amount of unpaid compensation for past or future services to be included in the funding calculation shall not exceed seventy-five (75%) percent of the total amount of the contract compensation."

The reversal of escrow requirement would not need to be agreed to by the NFLPA. And considering the implications of additional guaranteed contracts to its players if annulled, the union would certainly waive the right to arbitrate over article 9. The notion that NFL teams could go bankrupt and default on player contracts, even a massive one like Watson's, is laughable.
 
steelbtexan said:
It's going to become even more imperative that your QB be on his rookie deal or at most a couple of yrs out from their rookie deals for teams to be able to win a championship.
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Or the paradigm is going to change. We already see Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan, Drew Brees can’t even get to a Super Bowl while Joe Burrow & Matt Stafford can.
 
leebigeztx said:
In a sense, but as stated, they can change that when they want. All it takes are a couple of owners crying about what they don't have and they will change the rule. Its really about time these guys get more guarantee money with what they put their bodies through honestly. Its a steep cost physically to play it so the reward will start to catchup.
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Then it's also time for those not performing up to the expectations of those contract to volunteer giving their pay checks back, or at least getting reduced. But that won't happen. Unions don't expect pay to be tied to performance, anymore than they expect it to be tied to efficiency.
 
leebigeztx said:
In a sense, but as stated, they can change that when they want. All it takes are a couple of owners crying about what they don't have and they will change the rule. Its really about time these guys get more guarantee money with what they put their bodies through honestly. Its a steep cost physically to play it so the reward will start to catchup.
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No, a coal miner pays a steep cost physically.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Then it's also time for those not performing up to the expectations of those contract to volunteer giving their pay checks back, or at least getting reduced. But that won't happen. Unions don't expect pay to be tied to performance, anymore than they expect it to be tied to efficiency.
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They already do that. Players get cut with years left on their contract, correct?
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Then it's also time for those not performing up to the expectations of those contract to volunteer giving their pay checks back, or at least getting reduced. But that won't happen. Unions don't expect pay to be tied to performance, anymore than they expect it to be tied to efficiency.
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Why?
I sign an unfavourable lease, i'm still financially on the hook down the line if my enterprise fails.
Grifters.
Employee x isnt as good as we thought, regretfully, we signed him to a long-term contract.
It's happened b4...i've eaten it, honoured the deal & shed them after. Why are NFL teams excused?
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Then it's also time for those not performing up to the expectations of those contract to volunteer giving their pay checks back, or at least getting reduced. But that won't happen. Unions don't expect pay to be tied to performance, anymore than they expect it to be tied to efficiency.
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They get cut all the time Doc.
 
leebigeztx said:
They already do that. Players get cut with years left on their contract, correct?
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There are plenty of players who have guaranteed money going into at least the 2nd year. If they perform poorly, they still can get paid whether cut or not. And 1st rnd Draftees are fully guaranteed 4 years. 2nd rnd Draftees are fully guaranteed for 2 years.

Most people in the real world get paid only when productive, and released when they are not..........unless you are a unionized or governmental employee.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1509488086320824326
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Wow that's an eye-opener !
McClain is kinda an institution around here, and I know I've been listening to him on the radio and reading his sports stories in local papers since I moved to Houston from my native Northwestern Missouri (go Chiefs !) way back in the 1980s.
I hope Johns health is OK and I will remain a fan and continue to listen to him on 610 AM as he tell yarns about the
Texans and especially the Oilers from "back in the day".
 
Dejaview said:
I worked in O&G for 3+ decades. People got cut daily no matter how you want to define “cut”. Ask Baller if his job is safer than the nfl both physically or job security wise. Your out of touch comments are timeless.
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Have you heard of a coal miner or operator in the refinery having cte? You're underestimating the physicality every play in the nfl. As stated, you're in 35mph car wrecks every play, I can almost guarantee you that normal sized people working in o & g couldn't take the punishment it takes to play even at the college level. Its not even close. Why you think you have guys walking away before they turn 30?
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
No matter what you may think of McClain, he has contributed a great deal to the Houston sports scene, as well as the national sports scene. Hope he enjoys his retirement and uses some of his free time to hit the gym a bit. :tiphat:
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He's not hitting the gym, but he is a treasure of ours. He's been saying he's going to retire soon, but was never defined soon. Much love to the HOF
 
maverick512000 said:
Don't know much about coal mining do you. For reference look up "Black Lung" and then by all means tells me how football players have it so much worse than coal miners.
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There are women coal miners correct? You think any woman on this planet can play professional football or even D-1 college football?
 
leebigeztx said:
There are women coal miners correct? You think any woman on this planet can play professional football or even D-1 college football?
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There are also female soldiers but I'm sure you think football is harder than war to. There are female police officers and firefighters but sure yeah lets worry about the poor football players. In fact the most dangerous job in the world is being a lumberjack and guess what women do that to, they're called lumberjills.

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Fact is professional athletes, like movie stars, are nothing but entertainers who's sole contribution to society is amusing the members of that society that actually have value. If a group of people are stuck on a deserted island and they are a carpenter, a doctor, a chief, a hunter and a professional athlete guess which one in that group has the least to contribute regardless of the genders of any of them. When societies amusement with them ends then their value ends.
 
maverick512000 said:
There are also female soldiers but I'm sure you think football is harder than war to. There are female police officers and firefighters but sure yeah lets worry about the poor football players. In fact the most dangerous job in the world is being a lumberjack and guess what women do that to, they're called lumberjills.

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Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs of 2020 | NCW

Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs of 2020 These are the most dangerous occupations in the U.S., as measured by fatal work injury rate. The first question...
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Fact is professional athletes, like movie stars, are nothing but entertainers who's sole contribution to society is amusing the members of that society that actually have value. If a group of people are stuck on a deserted island and they are a carpenter, a doctor, a chief, a hunter and a professional athlete guess which one in that group has the least to contribute regardless of the genders of any of them. When societies amusement with them ends then their value ends.
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There are 1500 nfl players out of a pool of 7b people on this earth. We watch nfl for competition and entertainment value, but it is a combat sport. Its not a militaristic type of combat that you can get blown up or shot, but average people can't participate. Their body can't take the physical punishment those guys take, especially on the oline and dline. I'm 6'4 and a half 285lbs and the average person couldn't push me 12 inches off a spot. Imagine a dude like JJ pushing another man like say Tunsil that same 12 inches. I don't have to get to the force at which a 250lb lb coming in to fill a hole and hitting another 220lb man and taking him to the ground. The sheer force is ridiculous that average people can't withstand. So yes, being a iron worker is dangerous and for all intensive purporses, one move can end their life, but if can happen in the nfl also even with the pads. We've witnessed high school kids in full gear getting hit in the head by another highschooler and having brain damage. Earl Campbell is 67 years old and he moves like he's 97. Dickerson speaks about how long it takes him just to get out of bed on a daily basis. The get paid handsomely as they should because people want to watch the gladiators battle in the arena.
 
leebigeztx said:
There are 1500 nfl players out of a pool of 7b people on this earth. We watch nfl for competition and entertainment value, but it is a combat sport. Its not a militaristic type of combat that you can get blown up or shot, but average people can't participate. Their body can't take the physical punishment those guys take, especially on the oline and dline. I'm 6'4 and a half 285lbs and the average person couldn't push me 12 inches off a spot. Imagine a dude like JJ pushing another man like say Tunsil that same 12 inches. I don't have to get to the force at which a 250lb lb coming in to fill a hole and hitting another 220lb man and taking him to the ground. The sheer force is ridiculous that average people can't withstand. So yes, being a iron worker is dangerous and for all intensive purporses, one move can end their life, but if can happen in the nfl also even with the pads. We've witnessed high school kids in full gear getting hit in the head by another highschooler and having brain damage. Earl Campbell is 67 years old and he moves like he's 97. Dickerson speaks about how long it takes him just to get out of bed on a daily basis. The get paid handsomely as they should because people want to watch the gladiators battle in the arena.
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Except for one little thing you left out. They chose that life knowing the risks and knowing the long term affects. They don't have to be professional football players and in fact the vast majority don't make it. Even high schoolers that don't make D1 can get good scholarships so why don't all these wannabe football players use that to do something that isn't as "difficult"? Because they are way overpaid to play a game and its easier for them than living in the real world. Just look at how many go broke within a couple of years after they stopped playing.

The point I don't disagree with you on is that we have gotten to this point because society has messed up ideas of value. When we pay a guy that can carry a ball 100 yards way more than we do an entire building combined of people that run into burning buildings to save lives we have some F'ed ideas of what is important.
 
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CloakNNNdagger said:
No matter what you may think of McClain, he has contributed a great deal to the Houston sports scene, as well as the national sports scene. Hope he enjoys his retirement and uses some of his free time to hit the gym a bit. :tiphat:
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He has, it’s just these last years we’re seriously getting stupid. I’m glad he retired. He was long in the tooth as they say.
 
NFL Insider Jason La Canfora Destroys Deshaun Watson: ‘This Guy Wanted to Get Caught’
by Tim Crean
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April 1, 2022

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s alleged sexual assaults and inappropriate conduct during massages are well-documented. Although criminal charges have so far failed to stick to the recently-traded signal-caller, 22 civil lawsuits remain.

The fact that the Cleveland Browns eagerly traded for the three-time Pro Bowler — and then gave him a massive, suspension-proof deal — is rubbing some the wrong way. This includes CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora who went off on the problematic passer.

The Cleveland Browns tacitly endorsed Deshaun Watson

The NFL’s brand of case-by-case discipline, seemingly at the whim of Commissioner Roger Goodell, makes predicting what will happen to Deshaun Watson difficult.

The closest precedent for what’s going on with Watson in 2022 seems to be the sexual assault allegations against Ben Roethlisberger in 2009 and 2010. Although the Steelers QB escaped charges in both incidents, Goodell still suspended Big Ben for the first six games of the 2010 season.

No matter what happens with the 22 civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault and inappropriate conduct that Watson still faces, unless proof of a wide-ranging conspiracy against the Cleveland Browns QB comes out, Goodell will have to issue him a suspension.

The problem with that is, any punishment will hurt the Browns immensely while barely touching Watson’s wallet. That’s because the five-year, $230 million, fully-guaranteed contract the Browns gave Watson when they liberated him from the Houston Texans is purposefully suspension-proof.

In 2022, Watson gets a $44.9 million signing bonus and will only make $1.03 million in base salary. That means each game during a suspension will cost him roughly $57,500. That’s a big difference from what would happen if the suspension came in 2023, when his base salary is $46 million. Those checks are approximately $2.5 million per game.

The entire Watson situation — along with the fervor with which the Browns are supporting him — doesn’t sit well with everybody. CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora seems to be one of those who have an issue with the QB.

Jason La Canfora shared his ‘armchair Ziggy Freud’ thoughts on Watson
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maverick512000 said:
Except for one little thing you left out. They chose that life knowing the risks and knowing the long term affects. They don't have to be professional football players and in fact the vast majority don't make it. Even high schoolers that don't make D1 can get good scholarships so why don't all these wannabe football players use that to do something that isn't as "difficult"? Because they are way overpaid to play a game and its easier for them than living in the real world. Just look at how many go broke within a couple of years after they stopped playing.

The point I don't disagree with you on is that we have gotten to this point because society has messed up ideas of value. When we pay a guy that can carry a ball 100 yards way more than we do an entire building combined of people that run into burning buildings to save lives we have some F'ed ideas of what is important.
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Just as coalminers, operators,iron workers, etc chose their line of work also correct? They too know the dangers of coal mining or underwater welding or scafflodbuilding, they chose it with the pay.
 
Well he is no longer the Texans problem but now Browns warned him that second chances do not come easy as well as that over in the knowing he could be cut and possibly indicted as he is not out of the woods just yet!
 
Deshaun Watson accidentally posts wrong jersey on Instagram
by Randy Gurzi52 seconds ago Follow @rgurzi81


Deshaun Watson shared a picture of his new Cleveland Browns jerseys on Instagram but may have had an Atlanta Falcons jersey in the background

The Cleveland Browns made a huge splash this offseason when they traded a massive haul — including three first-round picks — to the Houston Texans in exchange for Deshaun Watson.

On Friday, Watson shared a picture on Instagram of his new Cleveland jerseys. He had all four variances including the all brown color rush and 1946 throwback on his pool table with his No. 4 on the back.

However, there’s another part of the picture some eagle-eyed followers found as well. If the picture is enlarged, a folded-up Atlanta Falcons jersey with the number four can also be seen.

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Deshaun Watson accidentally posts wrong jersey on Instagram
by Randy Gurzi52 seconds ago Follow @rgurzi81


Deshaun Watson shared a picture of his new Cleveland Browns jerseys on Instagram but may have had an Atlanta Falcons jersey in the background

The Cleveland Browns made a huge splash this offseason when they traded a massive haul — including three first-round picks — to the Houston Texans in exchange for Deshaun Watson.

On Friday, Watson shared a picture on Instagram of his new Cleveland jerseys. He had all four variances including the all brown color rush and 1946 throwback on his pool table with his No. 4 on the back.

However, there’s another part of the picture some eagle-eyed followers found as well. If the picture is enlarged, a folded-up Atlanta Falcons jersey with the number four can also be seen.

THE REST OF THE STORY.
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