ZN, I understand that for you, business and contract ethics play no role in this debate. Fine. That's your take.
They do for me. And thank gosh they do for most business people or our civil contract legal system would be chaos.
For some reason folks such as yourself see Pro sports as an exception to the rule of ethical contract law; I don't.
The Rams are NOT responsible for the terms of the CBA. They simply have to abide by them. The Rams did not set the rookie scale; it was negotiated how that system would work some years ago between the Players Union and Goodell. The Players agreed to it.
Your idea that players can play above their contracts is entirely subjective. How do you measure that? How do you determine what contract level play is so that the player is being paid at exactly the right level according to a contract? And what difference does it make? Sure, I get it that when the contract is up the guys who play better and make more impact in the eyes of some teams and GMs will get paid more; that's the marketplace at work and the CBA makes that a possibility.
But Donald is under contract. And the CBA allows the Rams to pay him the contract price, and to Tag him up to 3 times. That is the CBA as well.....which the Players voted on and agreed to.
I know this won't change your mind. But I see your stance as entirely subjective and anti-ethical. If teams tried to subvert the CBA and contract law the way you are supporting for Donald to subvert the CBA and contract law, then the CBA and contract law are pointless and it becomes a free for all.
If in a couple of years the terms of the CBA change, and there's a modified Rookie salary scale (or none at all), and if players are granted fully guaranteed contracts, and players are given the specific right to disavow their contracts, fine. But that's not how it is now, and AD needs to honor that.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2018 06:02AM by RockRam.