Jesse Bates Was Just On NFL Network

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(02-23-2022, 08:06 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Admittedly, I don't pay super close attention to the contract side of things.  It's just not my interest.  But I don't know how the FT "hurts" anyone unless they get injured or phone it in and don't want to put out full effort, in which case their next longer term deal would be hit.  But it's guaranteed money, and it's not bottom money.  

I kind of find it insulting when players get upset when they have "prove it" years and just want their payday.  I get it from their perspective of "get paid today, who knows what tomorrow brings", but that's not how almost anyone else's job works and making significantly less money doing them.  Bates has what, $7M to his name now as a Bengal?  He could retire tomorrow.  Or, he can decide to keep playing because he enjoys it.  Not saying he's making a scene, but this is why I don't get into the contract details.  Billionaires and millionaires arguing about money doesn't interest me beyond the fact that the more one guy wants to pad his account means the rest of the team often suffers. 

I get not wanting to play under the tag but I don't.

Players complain because they might get hurt and don't have long-term security, but here's the thing: signing gives him more than half of the safety contracts in the league are getting guaranteed with their long-term contracts, so they'd be getting all that for only one-year guaranteed with the potential to make more next offseason. 

I can maybe see how older guys might not want that because they don't know how long they have left, but being only 24(?) means that he still has many years left to cash in with longer deals. Take a lot guaranteed now and then signing one next offseason gives you even more guaranteed money.