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He will have the lowest jersey sales per dollar salary in the history of the NFL by a wide margin.
Usually when you get a guy making record breaking salary numbers he’s also a marketing draw as well. Not Donald.
I remember when Faulk held out of camp in 99 while the Rams completed his new contract. There was a lot of dumping on the player then, too. People questioned his character and even his talent. Not all of us fall for that stuff though.
Here's what's actually happening in this case.
2nd contracts go up. Last year WR was around 14 M, this year it was around 16 M. In 2017 Carr signed for 25 M, in 2108 Cousins signed for 28 M. That's around 12-14% a year.
Donald's category is best defensive player, set by Von Miller in 2016 at 19 M. 21 M in 2018 would be a 10% increase across 3 years.
What has people thinking that this would be the only position that sees a 10% increase in 3 years? The increase if normal ought to take the amount to AT LEAST 24 M or so.
Yet people are convinced for some reason that this is this huge, big offer...and it doesn't even keep pace with something like Cousins getting more than Wilson because of the years they each came up?
I've seen it so many times before I am actually kind of thick skinned about it. The player's "demands" are perfectly reasonable, but some fans act instead like he slapped their grandparents around with a dead racoon.
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