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merlin
Money is going to guys who get pressure on the QB, or who remove an opposing receiver in the passing game. Safety is a position where there's a lot of dropoff between the top guys and the median types, the top guys typically have ball skills that can flip the field for you through turnovers but barring that why pay a premium for them?
I suspect Joyner would have made some coin on even this market. Why? Because he can remove a slot receiver. Dude would have gotten paid but the Rams blocked him and took advantage of the market, plain and simple.
Some folks like conspiracy theory and more power to them. I just don't think this league is capable of it. As miniscule as the difference between winning and losing is in the NFL I just don't think you could get all the teams to agree on blackballing a position. To me it's ludicrous but hey to each his own.
Referring exclusively to 2nd contracts here---money goes to everyone and has since free agency combined with the new CBA.
It has always tended to be portioned out to different positions differently. QBs get more than guards and WRs and WRs get more than guards etc.
What has NOT happened before is that an entire position gets frozen out, the way safety did this year.
I see all kinds of speculation about that but not any references to informed sources who have talked to coached, execs, and GMs. Which is a staple kind of reporting for changes in free agency.
So DEs always got more than safeties, yet until now, every position went up every year. Until this year, with safeties.
I am asking for informed insider accounts as to why. The opinions are interesting but they're not what I am looking for.
So for example saying that certain positions get more is not news. That has been true all along.
What is NEW is an entire position basically getting NO money one year. (Acting like it's not new doesn't help the discussion. Yeah it's new.) That IS news. And again as much as opinions on that are interesting, I am looking for informed sources on this. Not poster's opinions, or published opinions. Informed sources.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2018 09:47AM by zn.