So Glad We Won't Be Worrying About Dalton

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(06-28-2017, 01:38 PM)grampahol Wrote: These salaries are beyond absurd when you get right down to it. Well in excess of a million bucks a year to essentially work 16-20 days a year and only a few hours of those days. I absolutely fail to see how anyone getting paid over a million bucks a year for those kinds of working hours could possibly be considered underpaid. Sure, there's a lot of practice and so on, but teams don't pay millions every year just to practice. 
Take a guy who is a first round pick.  They get some huge paycheck just to sign their name on the dotted line and regardless of whether they actually play a game or not they should be set for life with that first paycheck. 
I don't know about the rest of you, but if someone handed me a million bucks just once I'd never worry about my finances again the rest of my life. 
It just seems so utterly absurd to think anyone is underpaid even making league minimum. What's league minimum for one full season? $450,000 ?
The rest of society, you know..mere mortals? $7.25 an hour for minimum wage and plenty of us make considerably less than that if working as contract labor or as a waiter/waitress and we're somehow supposed to believe that anyone playing professional sports could possibly be underpaid? 
Well I'm not buying it .Even if you're a bench warmer in the league you cannot possibly be under paid..
I hate to break the bad news, but $450,000 a year is pretty damn good money to do anything. 

Simple economics, my good man.  The NFL is a business worth billions and roughly 10 people on earth are able to do its most important job (play QB) well during any given year.  If you can do something only 10 people on earth can do you are more valuable than someone who does a job a billion people could do.

What is so hard to grasp about this?  It's just supply and demand. It's not about fairness, it's about having a skill set that is highly valued and next to no one on earth can duplicate.

And yes, $450k  sure seems like an excessive amount of money to us working stiffs, but the $35k we bring home each year sure seems excessive to starving Ethiopians.  It's all relative.

(06-28-2017, 02:02 PM)Millhouse Wrote: He is 20th per year average salary, but 6th for a singular contract overall. 

I dont think he is underpaid at all to be honest, based on his playoff history that is. 

https://overthecap.com/position/quarterback/

Yep ,this is sort of the unpleasant truth of the matter.  Dalton is a great value, but I have a hard time being so smug about that when we are comparing him to "overpaid" QBs who have made it closer to the SB than we have in nearly 30 years.  I really think some people around here have the idea that Dalton would take super team-friendly deal even if he pulled a Flacco in a contract year and was the SB MVP.

The short of it is that I HOPE we eventually have to worry about how much money Dalton is going to command because, you know, he won it all or something.