02-08-2025, 03:22 PM
(02-08-2025, 01:05 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: How do you and others who claim who won't take a pay cut know definitively that is true?
Players who make far less than JB have taken pay cuts. I have no idea if JB will take a pay cut if he restructures his contract, no one does until it is done.
Who are these players? Were they actively being threatened by being cut or traded?
I know he won't take a pay cut because he had a chance to take less not even 1.5 years ago and instead chose to be the highest paid player in NFL history. I don't blame him for it, I have always been a vocal supporter of players getting paid what they can while they can, but I don't want to then hear not even two year later that he's going to simultaneously buy a Batmobile and take a paycut right when his massive contract money is actually going to start coming in. It's a whole lot easier to not ask for as much initially than it is to get the money and then give it back.
This seems a whole lot like two offseasons ago when people were absolutely certain that blue collar Ohio boy Burrow was going to give a hometown discount and sign for pennies on the dollar so we could extend both Chase and Tee, and that they were going to follow suit because being together meant more to them than getting paid the most they could. Tried to warn people they were being absurd, that it's a business and these players often only get one real shot at a huge payday in the NFL and then they have fifty-sixty years post-NFL..... Then he got paid and NFL record $55m/yr and the second highest guarantee at signing in NFL history and Chase is wanting to be paid as the highest non-QB in NFL history. Welcome to reality.
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