03-09-2017, 05:40 PM
(03-09-2017, 03:42 PM)Okeana Wrote: Supply and demand is meant to show how to drive prices in a retail market to grow a business. This is not a model you want to use when managing a football team. Brock Osweiler got paid last year to go to the Texans and would that be considered a favorable deal ? No its one they have to live with because they screwed up. Zeitler is getting paid 12 million dollars by a team that desperately needs a guard, but that doesn't mean we should pay 13 million a year to a guy to retain the guy.
Just a thought, aren't the Bengals in desperate need of a guard? They have lost the two best players from the line last year with no viable replacement around. We can look to the draft, but it's not a great draft for linemen and their recent history is not very good.
(03-09-2017, 04:35 PM)Whatever Wrote: By this logic, if I walk into a store with $2k to spend on a TV and walk out with a 36" 720P, not only is that TV worth that, but everyone should be lining up behind me to buy one.
Sorry, but you do not begin to understand what was being said by Weezy. If there is something special about that television, and it is placed for sale on the open market where multiple people bid and $2000 is the final price, then yes that is the market value of the product. If you walk into Bob's Wholesale Appliances and pay $2000 for a television you could get at Wal-Mart for $120 then that makes you foolish and an uneducated consumer.
The two scenarios are not at all similar. As was said previously, it is supply and demand. Zeitler has a skill that he can supply to a team, a very specific set of skills, and if $12 million is the final bid then that is his market value.
