Football Late night bullshit: Outside-the-box idea on NFL contracts.

Direckshun · 12-23-2016, 01:39 AM

I saw this suggested on the NBA reddit, but let's try applying it to the NFL.

Someone suggested that instead of having NFL contracts based on dollar amounts, they should be based on percentages.

i.e. Instead of signing Justin Houston to a $100 million dollar contract, they should sign him to a 15% of the Chiefs cap figure deal.

So like a rising tide raising all boats: as the NFL salary cap rises, every player under contract in the NFL makes more money.

I've no clue if this is something I even like, but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if you guys could poke holes in it or find some things to like about it.

RippedmyFlesh · 12-23-2016, 01:52 AM

It would make for some spirited position value discussions.

Simply Red · 12-23-2016, 02:13 AM

Hydrae · 12-23-2016, 08:35 AM

I don't think that would work very well. Right now when the cap goes up it allows teams room to sign rookies as well as free agents. That would be hard to do without some basically enforced team turnover to free up a percentage of the cap.

Also not sure how bonuses would factor in to that. Overall I don't think this would be workable.

Dante84 · 12-23-2016, 09:13 AM

Isn't this the exact same thing that they do? It just rounds the numbers out into percentage points, and allows for less flexibility (unless you can go into decimals, like 15.432 percent - and even then, why not just use dollars?)

ChiefsCountry · 12-23-2016, 09:16 AM

One player in the NBA can change a franchise unlike the NFL.

Pasta Little Brioni · 12-23-2016, 09:30 AM

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Direckshun __ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springpatch Casino cash: $4413447	Late night bullshit: Outside-the-box idea on NFL contracts. I saw this suggested on the NBA reddit, but let's try applying it to the NFL. Someone suggested that instead of having NFL contracts based on dollar amounts, they should be based on percentages. i.e. Instead of signing Justin Houston to a $100 million dollar contract, they should sign him to a 15% of the Chiefs cap figure deal. So like a rising tide raising all boats: as the NFL salary cap rises, every player under contract in the NFL makes more money. I've no clue if this is something I even like, but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if you guys could poke holes in it or find some things to like about it.
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