Chase not Practicing

[007BengalsFan]

(08-30-2024, 05:12 PM)Ell Prez Wrote: Weak take. This isn’t the first time a player has held out and wanted a contract, during, before or after they have a contract. Just because nfl players make a “ridiculous” amount of money, doesn’t mean it’s ridiculous. The NFL generates BILLIONS of dollars a year. Chase is asking for like 0.01% of what the nfl generates. The bengals generate about $500M and chase would like 7%.

Don’t look at the nfl as a sport. Look at it as a business, because that’s exactly what it is.

The salary cap isnt $500 million.  It's 255.4 million this year.  A 40 million per year extension would be close to 16% of the cap.  Even if you average it over a 6 yard period and the cap hit was $32 million per year which is the figure some people are trying to justify to sign Chase to a 40 million per year extension, that 32 million would take up 12.5% of the cap this year.   Joe Burrow's cap hit this year is $29.7 million or 11.6% of the cap.  Signing Ja'Marr Chase to such a ridiculous contract would take up more of the cap space than Burrow this year.   And to add, I dont think the Bengals even have that much free cap space this year to begin with.