03-11-2024, 01:45 PM
(03-11-2024, 01:09 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: If a player comes out and plays "safe" or half-asses plays because he playing on the franchise tag, that is indeed on his character. I don't know about your family, but in my house we'd consider that tag amount ($21.8M) to be generational wealth.
So you expect the player to give full commitment while the team gives that same player a half-assed one?
The average person in the US with a bachelor's degree earns about $2.5 million during the course of their working life. $21.8 mil is enough to support eight people at middle class income level, so Higgins, a wife, three kids, mom and dad, and maybe a nice little inheritance left over for the grandkids. That is not generational wealth. Thinking like that is the reason why the vast majority of lottery winners wind up going bankrupt. Not to mention, that income is being taxed in the highest tax bracket instead of a lower one as of it has been steadily accrued over the course of one's life and the agent takes a healthy cut of it, as well.
