Odell Beckham: NFL players should get paid more

You know that it's going to happen.

for someone that has only played one season.

In comment 12291197 mdc1 said:

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for someone that has only played one season.

How many seasons have you played?

OBJ isn't wrong in principle. I therefore encourage him to become a player rep and become more active in the negotiations of the union representing his and all NFL players' interests. The NFLPA is a joke. The last CBA they signed was the worst in the history of pro sports.

Let's raise taxes and ticket prices.

In comment 12290957 J Dot1 said:

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Love OBJ but I don't agree. Athletes and entertainers are obnoxiously overpaid.

No, they're not (teachers & police officers). When you account for the benefits and early retirement ages and all that... they are certainly not underpaid (by and large, course... there are probably exceptions and inner cities may be different).

And football players are not underpaid - thats ridiculous. It's just that baseball and basketball players are grossly overpaid. To this day i cannot understand why baseball players get paid so much - why are networks paying this sport so much money when very few actually watch on TV and why are people paying so much money for mediocre seats and lousy hot dogs?

What you "deserve" is what you are worth. No one is forcing him to play for such a paltry sum, he can always walk away and go get a regular job and see how underpaid he is.

Chose to play football.if they knew these things and didn't change to basketball or baseball because of what they knew about the nfl then that's they're own stupid choice live with it.i would say if they want increased salaries then make rookie contracts a minimum of 8 years.i hate players who bounce from team to team looking for the biggest contract they can get like Revis.more money for more fucking loyalty to the franchise that changed your whole life for the better...forever!love Odell but millionaires bitching about money falls on deaf ears when they're fans are sacrificing more important shit in life to show love and support for they're favorite team or player.just my opinion.

than their counterparts in other sports but think about this.. Overall the NFL players make a bigger portion of a bigger pie than any other major sport in US and they only really play for 16 weeks... You can't compare that to people that play 9 months out of the year. They give up right to have overall contract security by getting a bigger piece of the pie.

In comment 12291287 Joey in VA said:

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What you "deserve" is what you are worth.

But under a salary cap, that's distorted.

Doesn't matter if career is shorter or more violent then other sports. That's a ridiculous reason to be paid more than other sports.

You play only 16 games. Your home and not on the road like other sports. Your time off is great. It's a health risk like any other job in the world. There's positives as well as negatives. Paid more? I don't think so, guaranteed pay is a different story.

That i don't like OBJ the person, another player I'll root for on the field but ignore off of it.

In comment 12291078 est1986 said:

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Baseball and basketball players should just get less, it's blows my mind how much baseball players make.

This^^

when the average fan of his sport can't even relate to the league minimum on a personal level.

Negotiate hard for however much he can get but have enough sense to not publicly complain about it.

they should get more. Tell the NFL to shove it and go find another job!

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In comment 12291399 River Mike said:

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In comment 12291078 est1986 said: Quote: Baseball and basketball players should just get less, it's blows my mind how much baseball players make. This^^

I think what you guys mean is that their contracts should not be guaranteed. Otherwise that's just weird comment.

Been in the league for about 12 games and already showing his true colors.

When his rookie contract is up, will the Giants pony up the 15-20m/year to keep him?

He's a diva, and once again Bob Mcginn's draft preview was 1000% spot on about the guy.

these kinds of comments, true or false. Honest but not too smart. Well he was not hired for his brains.

NFL player says, "Money and sex are good!"

YAWN!!!

(And completely ignore whatever question was asked to bait the player into such a response.)

but I'd suggest avoiding any controversy while he gains popularity. There will (hopefully) come a time when his views on the NFL and it's pay will be heard and actually matter.

The average NFL career is short indeed. They are not underpaid by any means until you look at what people make in other sports or you examine what the filthy rich owners make.

As it is, very few people in their life will ever come near making what ODB was guaranteed for a few years work.

Forget the NFL salary focus on becoming the next MJ/OBJ of the sporting world. Become the second coming of the man and the myth the world is talking abut and wearing his clothing. Leave the amount of money players are making or not making to those with unfulfilled dreams.

Has some weight with the season he had last year. On the other hand, you've played 12 games.

You talk about baseball, they have 25 guys on the active roster... Basketball, what... 12-14?

Football you pay 53 guys. And we all know (to ODB's point), the number of injuries means that there will be many more players than that pulling a check. The player payroll is enormous, and yes, so is the revenue.

But I have a little bit of a problem with a guy who is a rookie, making more money than most people will see in their lifetime, kind of coming off like he's complaining. By all means... if the 10.4 million is worth it, join the real world and sell insurance or something. No? I didn't think so... must be a pretty good deal.

I think you are on point here. Here's a guy who has captured the imagination of the country with his freakish numbers and "the catch". Just made the Madden cover and is arguably one of the most marketable athletes in professional sports outside of maybe Lebron and Peyton Manning right now.

He stands to make far, far more money in endorsements than he does in football. As long as you don't ruin your self-image by complaining about being a multi-millionaire for playing a sport.

Nothing turns the regular working people off faster than their superstar not being humble for their God-given talents, winning the genetic lottery, and complaining at all about not being filthy rich enough.

Shut your mouth and drink some Gatorade on TV and shit, and you will never want for anything.

he might not be talking about the highest paid guys, but talking about the league minimum types.

In comment 12291014 UConn4523 said:

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but I can't get over how much those guys make, and often for 10-20 year careers. You have journeyman now making $5 million a season which is what above average guys get at certain positions in the NFL (which may not even be full guaranteed).

The landscape of the economics of the NFL has changed since the new CBA. Guys aren't hanging around for a decade plus, and those second contracts are a lot harder to come by for the players.

In comment 12291388 Joey in VA said:

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That i don't like OBJ the person, another player I'll root for on the field but ignore off of it.

LOL

All Over my tv

I guess the blitz will start in the fall?

is his big issue he should have played soccer instead.

In comment 12290975 Gman11 said:

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Baseball has 25 man rosters and they play 162 freakin' games. Basketball has 15 man rosters and they play 82 games. Football has 53 man rosters plus a practice squad plus all the guys on IR and only 16 games. If baseball only had 16 games they wouldn't make much all.

this. so many more players to pay.

What they need are guaranteed contracts. Still allow teams to drop players like they do now, and keep the cap the same way, but unless the player signs with another team, the original team still has to pay the player. Of course set out certain exemptions, such an non-football injuries (no need to continue paying a player who ended his career in a motorcycle crash).

While some players might be content to sit out and collect, I imagine most of them would prefer to be playing vs. not playing. Have the contract define playing in other professional football leagues as well for the NFL. No need to have a player jump to the CFL so they can can play, yet continue collecting a check from the NFL.

This way, if you can physically still play, you're probably not mooching on an old contract. But if you can't play because you sacrified your body on the football field, you're not left to dry.

If he had pinpointed the length and compensation in rookie contracts he's have a more valid point.

Giants receiver Odell Beckham thinks the $10.4 million he’s guaranteed over the first four years of his rookie contract is not enough.

signed,
JaMarcus Russell

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reasonable

an all-world soccer player, I'm surprised he didn't decide to go that route. The best ones get paid more money and it is less dangerous than football.

I doubt very much that Beckham would make similar money paying soccer.

who knows. The odds of him becoming a world class soccer players are low, but that's also because we haven't seen his fully-developed soccer skills. If we saw him at 11 playing football, the odds of him being a world-class NFL player would be low also.

My point is that if he thinks football players are underpaid and face too high of a risk of injury, then perhaps he should have chosen a different athletic career path, especially when options were seemingly available.

In comment 12292623 PaulBlakeTSU said:

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who knows. The odds of him becoming a world class soccer players are low, but that's also because we haven't seen his fully-developed soccer skills. If we saw him at 11 playing football, the odds of him being a world-class NFL player would be low also. My point is that if he thinks football players are underpaid and face too high of a risk of injury, then perhaps he should have chosen a different athletic career path, especially when options were seemingly available.

My take is that we wasn't really speaking for himself, but for the majority of the league playing for minimum un-guaranteed salary levels.

But maybe I'm giving him too much of the benefit of the doubt

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In comment 12292544 Big Blue '56 said:

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Florio should stick to simple exercises like inaccurate mock drafts

The owners? Or the players?

The NFL rakes in, what, over $10 gajillion annually? Who should get all that dough? Robert Kraft? Jerry Jones? Robert Tisch?

It's not about the salaries the players get, because they could make a whole lot more and not make that much of a dent in the owners' take. The value of the players to the game is much, much more than the NFL permits, and thanks to the salary cap they are limited in the total amount of profit the league and the owners haul in. Perhaps it's due to the 53-man roster; but I wouldn't be upset to see the cap raised substantially to give the players a larger share of the NFL's profits.

And let's remember that only a few players ever get truly monster contracts, and then only after their 5-year rookie contracts end. The big bucks are reserved for the stars who avoid injury, and those guys are rare. It's not like every player retires a multi-millionaire. Few do.

Finally, the career of the average NFL player is something like 3 years. Let's say he makes $2 million over that period, but isn't necessarily prepared for a life of work outside of football; like some NFL former players, he might not make very much money once he's out of football.

Now think of a lawyer who makes, oh I dunno, $150,000 annually, but whose career spans 40 years. She'll make $6 million for that career. Why shouldn't the NFL provide for its players enough money to support them for a good long while after they've left the game?

over the next three years than $6 million over the next 40.

workers be content with what they are paid? I can guarantee 90% of people here would use the media if they thought it could help.

It seems like the dominant strategy here...

an account where players and owners contributed to. Negotiate the rules. But----

Once a player retires from the NFL, they continue to receive $100,000 annually for life.

That's more than enough to keep a person from crime, IMO.

1. The players of today get more money than yesteryear b/c of the owners and the marketing. The game didn't become better and outside of heavier offensive linemen, the players certainly aren't bigger, better or faster, they're just marketed better.

2. The players negotiated this. The veteran players didn't want draftees making more money. The players complained that Sam Bradford received $50 million guaranteed before taking a snap and wanted the rules changed.

OBJ is going to fix the mess that De Smith left behind

After that, who knows? World hunger?

Is there anything he can't do?

You're a millionaire. Even the lowest paid players are easily making 6 figures. Save your money instead of splurging on "bling." Most of the country can somehow manage to lead a decent life barely hitting the 100,000 mark. No reason he cant making ten million. Just shut up.

Most of these players are just mad at themselves for spending all the money they made and having nothing left when their career is over.

i wish these athletes understood that most people in this country will never sniff the money they make in a single season. I'd love to see them try to make a living as a sanitation worker, salesman, or waiter. Then complain about only making a few hundred grand per season ( Sept-Dec, January & February if theyre lucky). Real good to see theyre in touch with reality.

I know theyll be those of you who say "these guys put in hard work all year round and we could never do what they do" , very few of them could handle a 40 hour work week. Playing a game is not work. Ohh they have to work out, millions of people would love to be able to spend hours of their day in the gym, but they cant they have jobs, and families to support.