Odell Beckham: NFL players should get paid more

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.

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JaMarcus Russell

with OBJ and adds some readonable thoughts, imo
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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.