(06-12-2022, 05:06 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(06-12-2022, 04:42 PM)Bullseye Wrote: Why?

Admittedly I was not en economics or finance major, so you may need to dumb it down for me, but if an average WR gets paid an excessive amount in what is, by its very nature a restricted market, why wouldn't the upper end of the market adjust upward to put salaries in line?

1. The Mike Williams deal happened before the Kirk deal 

2. The Kirk deal is structured WAYY differently then all of those it supposedly inflated (lower % of guaranteed $$ and a two year team out clause most notably. 

3. Single Outliers don't shift market behavior meaningfully. Trends do. 

 4. Individual teams who want their guy will pay what they can to get him - but if they are letting an agent bully the price up on a Tyreek Hill "because of" Christian Kirk - they are simply bad negotiators and their behavior is contributing to a market shift as much as - or more than the Kirk deal.

They shouldn't, but somehow every time someone signs a ridiculously bloated contract, national media starts talking about how that's the starting point for the next guy.  Why is the next team always expected to be just as stupid as the previous one?  Or perhaps this is the first season I can remember when teams said, "We aren't that stupid, so we're trading you instead."

I didn't really buy the whole 'we broke the WR market' narrative myself, but it was funny hearing about it.  And if the Kirk contract helped some of our rivals move on from some top talent, icing on the cake for me  

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