*****The L'Jarius Sneed Thread*****

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by Urc Burry

I’m happy to eat crow on this one. Not that I never thought Sneed wasn’t any good. But I just didn’t think it made sense to pay him with McDuffie already being a top 10ish guy, and how well we’ve been drafting there. (Joshua Williams has very quietly had a great year too).

But this step Sneed has taken has been unbelievable. He has made it to where he needs to be the #1 priority in the off season.


My only gripe with Veach is that he never gets these guys done early. Maybe Sneed would have turned down anything that would have been viewed as a bargain for us. But I have to believe he would have taken Charvarius’ deal, and now he’s going to cost 20mil+

That doesn’t really happen anymore.

The NFLPA pushes guys to reset the market. Nothing wrong with getting what you can given short careers and the immense toll on your body.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Skyy God

That doesn’t really happen anymore.

The NFLPA pushes guys to reset the market. Nothing wrong with getting what you can given short careers and the immense toll on your body.

Which makes no sense in a hard cap league. The pie is the pie, and all the pie is eaten by NFLPA members.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

Which makes no sense in a hard cap league. The pie is the pie, and all the pie is eaten by NFLPA members.

Yeah - this isn't an NFLPA thing.

This is an agents thing. The NFLPA doesn't truly give a shit if the market gets re-set. As you noted, the cap is what the cap is and very few teams don't spend to it. In fact, the NFLPA writ large may well prefer a less top-heavy allocation of those cap-funds.

But the agents are out to get their individual clients the most money possible (as well they should be) and it's hard to find really good players. So you can spin the wheel and take your chances that some bad team won't overpay your really good player as though he's a great player (and some bad team ALWAYS will) or you can be aggressive in your efforts at retaining said player before he hits the market.