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| Odell Beckham: NFL players should get paid more Giants receiver Odell Beckham thinks the $10.4 million he’s guaranteed over the first four years of his rookie contract is not enough. “I think that we should make more money, personally,” Beckham told The Huffington Post when asked what he’d change about the NFL. Beckham says NFL players should get paid more than baseball or basketball players because football is a more dangerous game. “I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport where there’s more injuries. There’s more collisions. It’s not even a full-contact sport, I would call it a full-collision sport. You have people running who can run 20 miles per hour and they’re running downhill to hit you, and you’re running 18 miles per hour. That’s a car wreck. It’s just the career is shorter. There’s injuries that you have after you leave the game, brain injuries, whatever it is, nerve injuries.” |
Roster size plays a role but still, they should be making more money for all they do to their bodies.
The latest CBA seems like it just made the situation worse for them
Odell is worth every penny he gets.
I'm still a little more concerned come contract time after reading his comments
FA minimum salary
Cruz finally gets his payday and he gets injured
If he is not able to come back this year he will miss most of that payday
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.
That doesn't apply when there is a salary cap.
Without a salary cap, the market would deem them much more valuable.
The salary cap holds their salaries down, significantly
People throw out these professions but I don't think they actually think about it. There is a reason why teacher unions don't want anything to do with merit/job performance salary. Something you would find that most everyone would hope for at their jobs.
The majority of police officers in the country never have to draw their guns. Your stress and work hazard has a lot to do with your assignment.
What a fucking garbage way to begin that article.
The salary cap is what hamstrings them. But if you get rid of that then JJ wins a million super bowls and we all hate football.
Catch the ball and spend less OBJ.
Not the Peyton Mannings of the world, of course: but the Daniel Fells of the league need some protection.
The salary cap is what hamstrings them. But if you get rid of that then JJ wins a million super bowls and we all hate football.
+1
Not to mention, the demographics in professional sports is so slanted with so many great athletes not pursuing baseball.
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Giants receiver Odell Beckham thinks the $10.4 million he’s guaranteed over the first four years of his rookie contract is not enough.
What a fucking garbage way to begin that article.
Agreed. They totally missed the point with that opener.
How many seasons have you played?
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?
But under a salary cap, that's distorted.
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Negotiate hard for however much he can get but have enough sense to not publicly complain about it.
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Baseball and basketball players should just get less, it's blows my mind how much baseball players make.
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I think what you guys mean is that their contracts should not be guaranteed. Otherwise that's just weird comment.
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.
YAWN!!!
(And completely ignore whatever question was asked to bait the player into such a response.)
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.
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.