12-31-2021, 06:55 PM
(12-31-2021, 05:29 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Bryant had a four year, $28 million contract. Wayne’s has a three-year, $42 million contract.
Based on percent of salary cap Bryant's $28 million is equal to about $41 million in 2021.
I never have understood why fans consider injury prone players to be lazy scammers. The guys who are driven hard enough to make it big in the NFL are usually the hardest workers. There is almost no one that gets by on athletic ability alone in the NFL.
However Waynes and Bryant share an unusual set of circumstances. Both were supposedly healthy when signed. Waynes had only missed 6 games in his 5 NFL seasons playing at least 14 games every year. Bryant had had some injury issues but the second half of the '09 season he was on the filed playing well (2 100-yd games). Waynes complained about the Bengals not giving him a physical for weeks after the deal was negotiated. He said he was not able to push himself as hard as he needed because he ahd to avoid any training related injury. Then he reports to camp, supposedly passes a physical, then suffers a season ending pectoral injury IN WALKTHROUGHS, before they were even in pads. Bryant denied any new injury at all. He blamed it on chronic injuries. But it is extremely rare for a player to go from playing well at the end of one season to never even step on a practice field again without some new injury.
So while I usually chastise fans for denigrating the character of players based on injuries, I do understand that the unusual facts surrounding Waynes and Bryant leaves their desire to play open to conjecture.
