tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859126.post1623170549515046195..comments2023-10-28T06:41:07.069-07:00Comments on Ambition, Impatience and Sloth: Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06427208386709900367noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859126.post-14860225182446729112007-08-23T07:46:00.000-07:002007-08-23T07:46:00.000-07:00I'm pretty sure he was on a multi-year deal... but...I'm pretty sure he was on a multi-year deal... but since football contracts aren't guaranteed, such deals are worth little more than the paper they're written on. That's the main difference between the baseball union (which won its formative fights in the '70s and '80s) and the NFLPA, which was essentially crushed into nothingness in 1987. The main difficulty for the team in cutting a guy like Trotter, or even McNabb if (maybe when is a better word) it comes to that, is the salary cap hit... which I won't claim to understand.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06427208386709900367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859126.post-46602766069477730122007-08-23T07:02:00.000-07:002007-08-23T07:02:00.000-07:00I take it Trotter was not on a multi-year guarante...I take it Trotter was not on a multi-year guaranteed contract - how many of them are, aside from (I presume) McNabb? Is even Westbrook on one? I know that the announced lengths of NFL contracts are usually jokes and purely for PR, but I don't have a sense of how long the average NFL players is assured of a paycheck.<BR/><BR/>Running really short-term deals is probably the wisest team management style in football, but I maintain that these guys are badly underpaid. If they had any kind of union, maybe they wouldn't get multi-year deals but their one year deals would be a hell of a lot richer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com