I don't disagree. And the league should be pretty thoughtful about how to handle it. It's true that the problem will take care of itself, because teams will learn (if they haven't already) that you just cannot pay 2nd-4th tier QBs that kind of money.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:32 amWe’re only like a year or two away from having 15+ QB’s making $30m/year. Something has to be done.jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:31 amI think they'll successfully negotiate for a bigger piece of the pie, but the cap itself is pretty central to the competitiveness of the league. If you were to do something like give every team a designated player slot, you introduce some problems. Maybe players you draft or signed prior to them playing in a certain number of games should be "discounted" for cap purposes, like only 80% of their contract applies to the cap.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:22 am I think possible in nba, but I doubt in nfl.
I think Mahomes, et al. are going to have so much leverage that the union will get some sort of cap shift worked out.
The problem is that the implied lesson there is that the only path to competitiveness is to have an alpha quarterback. Since the only reliable path to having an alpha quarterback is to draft early, and since the only reliable path to drafting early is losing games, if you let the market solve this problem you will inevitably encourage tanking.
