The Untold TRUTH of NFL Free Agency
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- In this video we go over the Controversial History of Free Agency
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Chapters:
Intro - 0:00
The Controversial History of Free Agency - 1:33
A Lack of Humanity - 3:36
Rob Gronkowski Stops Trade to Lions - 4:16
The Franchise Tag - 4:50
The Runningback Problem - 5:45
The March Nightmare - 6:46
Manipulating the Salary Cap - 8:35
Redskins and Cowboys Salary Cap Scandal - 9:48
Josh Cribbs Admits to Tampering - 12:03
Tom Brady Tampering - 12:58
Jeremy Maclin Tampering - 14:21
Darelle Revis Tampering 15:37
Big Contracts vs Team Success - 16:53
The Four Free Agents of 1992 - 18:01
The 2011 Lockout - 18:55
Jerry Rice Forced to Retire? - 21:05
Brett Farve Can't leave Packers - 22:21 - Спорт
QB money is just way out of hand while 95% of the league destroying their bodies for pennies compared
Every time the cap goes up. Some greedy QB demands most of it.
At some point the NFL will reach a tipping point especially with inflation in a very bad economy
Pennies is a funny way to describe millions of dollars lol
@@poeticalvisionit’s only funny to you because we’re not in their tax bracket
I find it funny that teams are too desperate to have followed the lead guys like Brady taking less than the league makes them worth, in order to build a better roster! Winning championships will get a player recognition, endorsements etc. And how can a Justin Herbert or Josh Allen think they deserve more than a Brady or Mahomes?! That puts pressure on the player from the fanbase for them to "do the right thing", and exonerates a franchise to some extent if the player leaves! It blows my mind how mismanaged alot of these organizations are! Fans need to understand that the owners of alot of these teams don't necessarily care about winning and the way they operate is to help their personal agendas succeed more than have their best chance to win games!
17:18 The fact that teams overpay for QBs that aren’t worth the money it isn’t a sign of some darkness in the league; it’s a sign of stupid team management combined with QBs who are already millionaires being unwilling to take team-friendly deals to help them win. For instance. Daniel Jones contract would be considered robbery if the team hadn’t given it freely.
Yea and since it was given freely, now its just considered retarded 😂
That's who I was thinking about before you even said his name
“Team Friendly” deals really just mean owner friendly deals at the end of the day. The salary cap and franchise tag have absolutely nothing to do with making the league “more fair” or “competitive”. It is purely a way the owner’s have colluded with each other to artificially minimize the cost of labor. Look at the massage contracts in baseball. The NFL is much more popular than the mlb. Imagine what these stars would be getting paid w/o a salary cap? That’s why the owners take it so serious
Well put
It's hard to feel sorry for any player who makes over 750,000. That's more than I'll make in my lifetime, from this point on out
It’s not that simple. They have been playing their entire life and most only spend a few years in the league. It’s not as if they are set for life. Most of them anyway.
It is that simple. If you get paid that much for one year it is plenty enough to set you up for years. That's enough time to gain new skills and start a new career easy. In the league 3 or more years? You shouldn't have to worry about money ever again@@gtdcov
Your lifetime? Thats sad my friend. No way
No way, that's like 5-10 years salary broski. Now $7.5 million sure, even half that. But you'll touch $750K for sure.
@@gtdcovGood point, most players won’t be around long enough to secure generational wealth.
“Profit over player welfare,” sounds like regular at-will employment, like 99% of working class Americans. Welcome to the real word, NFL.
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But unlike most of us these players make a great salary and they willingly put their health at risk but with that said they should have more control on where they want to play
In the "real" world how often are you at risk of serious life changing injury? Like injury where you cannot perform your job anymore? Also, in the video they stated the average career is 3 years. Most players that make it to the league' dont make it to 3. That's a far cry different and stressful than the "real" world. Would it be labeled as jealousy for people who has a problem with players salaries? If so, it makes you having a problem stupid. You should want these players to have a bigger piece of the profits the NFL and the Owners are receiving considering what has been stated. Also, maybe we should push for a bigger piece of the pie from our "real" world jobs instead of instilling hatred in your hearts for those that are, can and should be pushing for a bigger piece of the pie. What the hell is wrong with people the hating people in the same position as you but make more money is just ignorant and evil. Use that energy towards the people signing the checks idiot!!! 😂
Salt Alert! Two wrongs don't make a right...
Replace player with personnel and boom it makes sense
Favre as a victim 😂😂😂 the scam he pulled after retirement has real victims.
It goes to show that it's all a lie you can make 200$ million dollars and still end up broke cause most teams are not inclined to pay you most of you contract after they trade you or cut you unless you have a certain amount guaranteed and even then the more you make the more they take!!!
They meaning the IRS😂
both can be true
That sudden jabbing of Favre on the end left me once finished viewing if all credibility to the video-essay becomes questionable. Interesting spin he took to how everything traversed with Favre and the Packers
@@whelpthereitis2577I lost brain cells from that first sentence
Just wait, he's going to paint himself as a befuddled senile CTE victim who is a good guy manipulated by corrupt politicians.
Dude has no shame.
Hard to feel bad for the players. The fan his tag is part of the CBA. The players could refuse to have it be a thing. But they were more concerned with limiting how many times they had to practice in pads and how teams couldn’t force them to attend OTA’s. If they really wanted to get rid of the tags, they could give up something else. It’s all give and take.
Levon Bell's horrible proformance with the jets made it hard for a running back to get paid. Additional comment:The line from the godfather part 3 is real about the meaning of franchise tag: " Just when you thought I was out they pull me back in."
Yes not many people talk about this, Because they want to make the owners out to be the bad guy. The big contract for the running backs went away because of players like him and how they performed after they got the big contract.
@GR-bn3xj sadly it feels like thats across the board, von miller hasnt performed after his supermax with the bills and Dan Jones for the giants. Im iffy to say Burrow is in the same spot given he went into the season injured, but even when healthy he didnt perform like he has in the years past, and the most obvious one being the unproductive year of Deebo, even if they have a stacked offensive depth chart
Great video but those faces at 9:48 are pure nightmare fuel 😆
Possessed eyes
I don’t know why he used Ai it just looks bad
It looks like some kind of smoothing filter
@4jesus1981 archon eyes! Used to be a channel that would point it on on UA-cam, and it was soooo prevalent in older early 2000s and amateur pron
Great to see a deep dive into the grimy business side of the game.
Free agency is like a limbo you just don’t know what production you’ll get out of a guy who’s a vet.
So trust an inexperienced rookie instead?
@@mrcdot7004 What are you even talking about? That’s far from my point 😂
Here for the premiere!!
youre the best at this dude
You forgot the poison pill the packers put in the deal with the jets. If the jets traded Frave to Minnesota, the jets would have to give green Bay 4 1st round draft picks
The real killer of the 90s cowboys salary cap.
@jefferysmith5230: That's the part no one talks about. They lost bit players first like Brownlee, Gant, Casillas, then the bigger players left like Harper ,Stepnoski, Russell Maryland, Jimmie Jones, Ken Norton Jr. They kept the big pieces but lost valuable role players.
They lost like 60 %of there team
@@EthanNiedorowski not only that the few year's before they gave Emmett troy and Irvin big contracts that put them far in the hole right off the back. Don't get me started on the terrible signing of Deon Sanders and the crap he brought to the locker room. Jerry had his hands on the will but if you start with a quarter tank you won't get far.
I love these videos I hope you keep making stuff like this it’s so fire
This video comes off as really whiny. These guys are employees. Just like most of the people working in America.
There needs to be a separate salary cap for QBs. The money they're getting is greatly limiting their teams.
I hate that my titans won’t have the King anymore. Derrick was a monster for us for 9 years. It won’t be the same without him anymore…
Yeah. He must have been fun to watch.
Players don't even wear pads anymore and constantly headhunt and punch guys. Miss me with the player safety stuff.
I like most of this video but you're saying league minimum deals like they're minimum wage. The running back for instance vet min is 1 million per year. I know runnign backs on average "only" make 1.8 million but there are many making 10 plus million. These guys aren't in poverty scrapping to feed their families.
Honestly if I’m getting paid a couple million dollars I’m not gonna care how much I’d get thrown around in the league lol.
Amazing !!!
Awesome video
It's funny how Gronkowski is painted as a doofus yet during his career and after he has seemed ingenious at the PR game and marketing himself.
A TE that not only became obe of the top five faces of the NFL, but a TE who has made and is making tons of money off the field.
For a non QB i can think of few who've maximized their image better.
That an he was a top 10 player all time
Owners don't care about player's safety it all about the 💰💰💰 it profit over pain
Well done👌🙌
Once the nuclear apocalypse hits were straight up getting into mutant League football with the corruption and everything.... Man I need to go rewatch that show that s*** was hella good for a kid show
Good video
The nfl is a business, you know what you are getting into when you get drafted, no one is forcing you to play! You can always go and sell insurance!🤦♂️
The NFL free agency sucks. They hype up the signings. The contracts aren’t fully guaranteed. The players can get cut at anytime. NBA and MOB free agency, well that’s a different story
As a hardcore (football fan) not just NFL the sport as a whole
I may love it, watch it, cheer for it
But watching and understanding the fd up side of it the side that makes you not love it anymore
Brings me to tears sometimes. Grown man tears🫤
Why can’t more people see this. You a real one, my friend
We've been seen this!
It's not just running backs, it's all around the league.
Bradys wife was richer than he was. He didn't need the money.
That's also because Brady would take a shit ton of pay cuts so Pats could afford more good players.
The owner-player rivalry is the same rivalry between a hammer and a nail
Well, it would be true if the nail had legs and could walk away
My favourite player all time is Barry Sanders. Raiders my team growing up in Glasgow when I got hooked in the1980's. RB's treated like shit
Look I like the video but there are some big editing errors. There is a huge cutting error in the middle of the video that leads to a lot of confusion and disturbs the flow of the video and please for the love of god if you try to highlight something do not use dark red next time because you cannot read anything after you highlighted it
And cousins got another fully guaranteed contract 😂😂
Cousins got the BEST agent EVER!!!
Saquon Barkley getting paid. Josh Jacobs getting paid. Derrick Henry getting paid. Tony Pollard getting paid. D'Andre Swift getting paid. Austin Ekeler getting paid. Even Zack Moss getting paid. It's like that whole narrative about the market colluding the hold down running backs earning potentials was complete bullsh*t
4 of the 6 guys you named have household names and have been productive. Its not a bad example but those arent rotational guys but high level starters at the least
Thank you for posting the video. I've never heard this side of NFL free agency before.
What happened to the original Roger Goodell thumbnail?
This is easily fixed. Take away all their anti trust protections and make them pay for their own stadiums instead of the taxpayer
Replace the franchise tag with a rule that every player drafted by their original team that stays has only 80-85% of their salary count against the cap. Keeps the leverage that owners want and if someone really wants to leave a situation, they can it would be at a large pay decrease
Since most teams spend to the Max of salary cap whenever one player gets paid less (RB, Franchise Tags…) other players gets paid more then not the owners keeping the $$$$$$$$$.
U should do a video about turf vs real grass
I've always preferred a performance based pay scale. Players get a base salary and can add to it based on their performance. This would save teams from overpaying for free agents. It would also reward overachievers who outplay their contracts. Injury clauses could be added to compensate those whose performance was no fault of their own. Was Patrick Mahomes worth 50 mil last year? Absolutely. Russell Wilson? Not so much. Of course the NFLPA would never agree to it, as there would be little or no job security but it would force teams to pay players what they're worth.
Was at that Philly throwback game with Weaver. Man. That injury was brutal. Knee going backwards. Owwwwwww.
If these players get franchise tagged, then they get the average of the 5 highest players in his position. If a RB or any player cant live on 12 million for the rest of their lives then boo fucking hoo.
That chad cut from the dolphins hurt me chad paid for my fit back in the day i was 15 in Cincinnati
George steinbrenner was right.
He said that every player should be a free agent at the end of every season only signing a one year contract with whatever team they chose and no advantage to the team they were with the season before.
The running back is being replaced by the Dual Threat running QB(a la Mahomes and Josh Allen). It may be 8-10 more years before the running back joins the full back and the straight on kicker in football history.
RB is the most easily replaceable poisition in football that’s why they don’t get paid as much. Rarely does a star RB missing time affect a team as much as other positions
It blows me away how NFL teams give more tjan half of the team cap annually to the QB them get confused on whh the rest of the team is lackluster...All ya money is in one pocket
Well one thing for sure is that Tom Brady's dad is part of Black Rock. He's a billionaire. Black Rock has holdings of $23 TRILLION DOLLARS! Tom's dad has had his hands in the pocket of all NFL teams since before Tom was born. No wonder the San Mateo local news was able to "predict" that he'd win more rings than Joe Montana.
I remember many of us in Pittsburgh called leveon bell greedy and whatnot. But after listening to this video it makes alot more sense. He isn't vindicated completely from everything that went on but im saying it makes more sense now. Coupled with the fact that running backs have a short shelf life as well I get it. Make your money while you can. It can all be over in a flash.
Makes me think about Tom Brady. What if he didn't have that trophy wife he has. Would he have done things differently and not taken team friendly deals? His career could have been ended at any point from being hit. He missed that one season think it was 2011. That could have been his last if things went differently
Knowing all that is known about rookie deals, NFL career length... The onus is on players. More IRA's, financial planning and fiscal responsibility and less gold jewelry, bad business deals and baby mamas.
How many times did 5 say I want to retire then after training camp he comes back and says hey, “I got the fire enemy still!?”
You should have had a couple of pictures of Favre in a Jets uniform, he did play around 8 or so regular season games with them before he got injured. Also, the players need to prioritize restricting the franchise tag to only 1 per player, occasionally a team will tag a player twice in a row to avoid giving a star player a huge, long term contract. The players may also need to look at restricting the owners to only having one option between the team option year or the franchise tag so top performing players can't hit a big payday for free agency, especially running backs.
I took the college ACT with a guy who was Big Ten freshman defensive player of the year
He ended up signing with the Browns and made it through training camp and getting cut. He made a whopping 80 grand in his NFL career
Luckily he was smart and invested in a steak place that he ended up selling after a few years for a profit. I don't know what he is doing now
What’s his name?
Considering minimum salary is over $700k I’m calling BS.
Imagine relocation as a topic for Baltimore, St. Louis, and Cleveland. How Baltimore is still angry about the Colts leaving and all that.
Top talent is always well paid, but more needs to be allocated to those who only last five or less years, not to mention more for the retired guys.
22:30 The packers don’t play at soldier field…
Am I the only one finding the narration too hushed and monotone? The editing is dramatic as hell, but the tone of narration doesn't match and the pacing feels off.
Otherwise, this is well put together. Just a little tough to digest over 20+ min.
You would not have players or a league without the owners and people who run it.
i just think its funny he called Lambeau field Soldier field 22:19 - 22:21
So what were the details of Redskins & Cowboys salary cap violations? It was just restating that there were violations & the teams were charged against their caps without saying anything more than a word salad.
I get why people hate on basketball players and baseball players over money squabbles but the nfl players don’t deserve it. Only a fraction of the players even get to be wealthy while the rest are pitted against each other in the squid/hunger games, they have the highest risk of injury, worst post career benefits and despite being independent contractors don’t even have a choice on where they work without their employers permission to leave.
That’s why the NFL is better than the MLB and NBA look at the dodgers now and the warriors dynasty not even fun to watch players dictate the outcome just by making super teams
@@austinweekley9213it's almost a scenario where one really can have their cake and eat it too. Make tons of money and choose where they wanna be and sometimes win championships on top of that
Gotta remember league minimum is still $900,000 I don’t feel bad for any of these players lol
6:42 So like literally every job in America? Oh no.
The NFL has to have rules otherwise the players would run amok. Yes they put their health on the line but let’s not pretend they don’t get paid very well and they play by choice. The real losers here are the fans
Lmao the amount of money these boys make is laughable to even say there is some dark side to anything they know wtf there doing… and they signed up for this
Do a video on nfl training camp
Great Recommendation! I'll definitely keep this in mind.
If people didn't care nobody would get paid. Unfortunately it's not about effort. Lax players are athletic and try just as hard as football players. Nobody care so they make less money. Safties, LBs and corners don't get paid much. Most linemen also.
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Why was punishment only handed down to the Dolphins for tampering? Brady knew it was against the rules! Where was his punishment?
beautifully written
Profits going above everything. Including life it’s self. Rigged!!
Join the army
I think rbs should be eligible for the nfl draft out of high school. Shelf life is too short and by the time they get their first contract they are mid 20s and already have a shit load of yards on them and likely not going to get any better, faster, stronger healthier or younger.
Hard to feel bad for them, on the other hand I'm sure there is a lot of stuff behind the scenes that makes the players feel like they deserve Even more.
The tampering rules are bullshit, anyone should be allowed to call anyone on any date about a job.
Greedy agents are responsible for all! Even high ticket prices. RB's are being faded out and merged into other positions so the money aint stable
I feel like this year RBs are doing well in FA
Zekes contract wasn't the worst in nfl history. At least he was worth it until the last year. There's much better examples lol
This video’s thumbnail foretold the Saquon/Eagles signing 😮😮
Fun part of the year for fans though
people are annoying
Brady was also married to someone worth half a billion when he didn’t take those contracts
Brady got his money.
ATL signed Kirk cousins because they were told too or something because he's not worth 60mill a year wtf 1 playoff win
Wait if you posted this 6 days ago how did you know Derrick and Saquon would sign with the Ravens and Eagles?
We the people
Flores lawsuit doesn't get much coverage now that I see this.
Yeah the players so called victory in 2011 dey make more while we the fans pay $200+ for nose bleed seats for a losing team to watch wat is practically flag football
Didn’t Lavien Bell , do what he said ? Show his worth ?
You really think 75k is gonna hurt Andy Reid?!? That's like a normal person paying a speeding ticket. If they really wanted to punish Reid make him go Vegan for 90 days. Guarantee he will NEVER do it again.
Epilogue: Lev Bell is now on OnlyFans and begging to make a comeback with the Steelers.
Won't someone think of these poor professional athletes?!
Broke out today that the 49ers cheated to get a Comp pick, lol
It's funny how we all believe that father was having a hard time with retirement because of a drive to play the game. In hindsight it now seems like it may have just been the pure hreed os a sociopath
Free agency equals unemployed it's your right decision to go where you want and make what you want franchise tag is called a forced contract One step above slavery
I think the QB salary should not go against the cap just my opinion though
I love the game but I know players are often not treated well at all in a cowboys fan and my dad and me argue all the time about zeke I know the guy fell off right after being payed but I know Jerry would have loved to use him and let go just like Demarco Murray it's an ugly side of what I believe is a beautiful game even if it's considered a bad contract from the cap perspective I'm never against any of these guys getting paid
Need a noice reduction on the audio, hard to listen to with the loudness of the background