(05-21-2024, 05:10 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-21-2024, 03:55 PM)mikesez Wrote: Right.  That fund is based on snap count (but WAAHH I thought snap count was hard!).  In 2020 that fund bumped his pay for the year by about $250k to about $1 million dollars. We can assume with 1 accrued year he got a bigger bump in 2021.  But I can't find the list.  I don't think $5k per carry is enough.
In 2020 Jonathan Taylor was paid about $8k per carry simply because he was drafted higher.  Ezekiel Elliott got $25k per carry because he was drafted even higher than them.  Those are all rookie contracts.  All three players had between 230 and 250 carries. 
I just don't think draft status should count for that much.  Especially not when it's locked in for 4 years.

Yeah, I never said anything about snap counts, but whatever.

Life is not fair. 

Opportunities are not evenly distributed. 

Best get after the ones that fall in your path. 1st round, 7th round, UDFA , whatever. Nobody is gonna level the playing field or salary distro for you.

The snap count thing was Mikey. Not you.

But to your point, sure, life is not fair, but that's a pretty dumb reason to say no to any effort to make life a little more fair. A smarter person would say, "your proposal has side effects" or "your proposal won't work as intended." Not "life is unfair". "I hear you that you didn't actually kill that guy, but you have to accept that life is unfair and just stay in jail." No.

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(05-21-2024, 05:17 PM)RicoTx Wrote:

(05-21-2024, 11:37 AM)mikesez Wrote: We're listening.  What are the good ideas?

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If it was a "whichever is more" proposition they might go for it.  It would give the players a chance of earning more with no risk of earning less.

How about not making special exemptions for any position?  You know, kind of like it is?

It doesn't have to be special for any one position.  "Rookie and UDFA contracts will pay either a salary based on draft position, or $x per snap, whichever is more"

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