NFL Inflation

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(08-20-2017, 10:36 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I keep hearing, this player got overpaid. That player got overpaid. No Guard is worth $10+ million.

Reality: The salary cap was $120 million in 2012. It's $167 million this year.

$10 million in todays dollars is equivalent to about $7.5 million in 2012. Would you have been ok giving a Guard like Zeitler $8.5 million in 2012?

The cap keeps going up:

It was $133 million in 2014.
$143.28 million in 2015.
$155.27 million in 2016.
$167 million this year.

The talk that we need to hoard cap space to retain our own is a myth. It's went up by approximately $10 million a year since 2012.

NFL inflation. Our minds aren't keeping up with this extreme inflation. Our reference point for salaries is skewed. We're thinking in terms of pre-2012 NFL dollars.

Paying Zeitler $8.5 mil a year in 2012 would be especially dumb. In 2017, only 10 G's average $8.5 mil a year or more.  He would be just as grossly overpaid back then at that rate as he is now with his current rate.  Only an idiot would hand that kind of deal to a good, but not great, RG.  

Reality is, with what G's currently make in the NFL, Zeitler is a $6-7 mil a year player that is getting paid almost twice what a player of his caliber at his position should be paid.