Report: Bengals are trying to sign Tee Higgins long term

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(03-11-2024, 07:02 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: It's only silly because you're not seeing the vast amount of money and how a little more may or may not make a difference. e.g. the regular person can retire off 3 million, something he will make in 2 games lol.

And yes in many other career fields you can become unemployable as you age.

You are underestimating the power of 100 million dollars vs. what you and I make. Forget how much more he makes past that. At some point, you don't need more money! But most players, like others in this thread have said including you, only really care about money. They will trade a better chance getting a superbowl ring for it, which I think as fans is really the only reason we watch, the chance to win it all; as we watch players who don't care about that as much as we do. There is so much money in the NFL you can't have it performance based, imagine everyone is paid a minimum and only those who win the superbowl get paid more. Would work like that at most other jobs lol. Once you get paid guaranteed dollars, what's stopping someone from not trying as hard? They've already shown they don't care about the ring as much as the paycheck, and now you're trusting them to start caring about the ring. A funny quandary in pro sports.

No, it's only silly because he's not a regular person so comparing him to one is pointless. 

How many of those career fields have only ~1,500 openings for the entire world and a massive amount of turnover? Only 56% of players are on a roster from one year to the next and only 35% over a two year span. With a constant pressure to prove your worth of be done in the career every year.

You are overestimating the amount of players who ever make $100m. If Tee broke both of his legs in a car crash today, the Bengals would likely retract his franchise tag offer and he would never play in the NFL again. Even if it happened after signing his franchise tag, it could be called a Non-Football Injury, which they don't have to pay him for (though they likely would because of public pressure). Getting guaranteed money is the only thing players can actually rely on and you should never blame a player for trying to get the most they can in the short time they have making money for a $20b/yr business.

That's a terrible idea. That just means that everyone good would go to one team, because they're all making league minimum without a SB win. So you'd just get the very best player in every single position on the same team, they'd all cost the same as the worst players in every position, and then they'd just win every single SB every single year. 

You're more concerned about the ring because you're a fan. They're more concerned about money because the NFL is their job. If you want to bring it back to your need to compare them to normal people, that'd be like you willingly taking a fraction of what you're worth at your job because you want your company to hit a stock price milestone or to complete a merger. Why don't you care about the company more than yourself? Because the company doesn't care about you any further than how much you help them make money.