07-26-2021, 04:40 PM
(07-26-2021, 03:49 PM)Whatever Wrote: With one of my employers, I actually declined a raise and told them to split it up amongst the group of people I had under me because a couple of them were ready to leave and it would have been difficult to find replacements and get them trained to their level in a reasonable amount of time.
I know people that have worked for struggling companies and stayed on despite not getting paid for weeks at a time because they loved the work and the people and the people they worked for.
Those are examples of loyalty. Loyalty really doesn't exist in the NFL unless you're willing to retire rather than leave. Polamalu retiring to create desperately needed cap space for the Steelers, now that's loyalty.
You're example is also kind of bad. You're comparing a guy who had made $50+ million to a guy that hasn't even made $5 mil.
why would career earning matter at all? A low ball offer is still a low ball offer. Why would bates or whitworth or any other player take tens of millions less than what their worth for "loyalty". Loyalty only enters the equation when your comparing 2 similar deals. We didnt offer Whit in the same ball park. It doesnt matter if i made 5 million or 500 million Im still not going to just take half of what im worth out of loyalty. Nobody would. If the bengals offer was within a few million of the rams whitworth would have been retiring as a bengal. He left because he was potentially leaving tens of millions on table if he didnt take rams offer. I dont care who you are, nobody is leaving that kind of money on the table for "loyalty".
Polamalu retired for a multitude of reasons and creating cap space wasnt one of them. The steelers forced him into retirement basically because he didnt want to be released and play anywhere else. Its pretty widely known Polamalu was very upset with how steelers handled it. He didnt want to retire but he had no interest playing for anybody else and his choices were retire now or we are releasing you. He chose to retire. He certainly didnt care about the steelers salary cap when he did it.
