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Old 02-08-2010, 06:31 PM
barrett barrett is offline
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Originally Posted by nero THE zero View Post
Ya, that's a concern, but a minor one. My 2 year $10M example was also obviously hyperbolic. But, if the Texans were to offer LT a contract that some of our players felt was unfair (to them), they can go and become one of the greatest players at their respective position in the history of the game and then come back and bitch about it. Whatever.
After watching D-Rob be insulted by his $10 we should realize that these things don't have to make sense. And the reason for that is that contract negotiations are agent driven.

If we give a guy who had 800 yards and 3 ypc $4 million per year, then every agent who negotiates with us has to get that kind of value out of us or they are inferior to the agent who got it for LT (and they lose clients to that guy). So they give bad advice to their client in order to protect their slice of the pie. And honestly it has repercussions even beyond our team in terms of setting market values at various positions.

But the bottom line is that bad contracts are bad ideas whether there is a cap or not.
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