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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 617268"><p>Rodgers signed that deal before there was a rookie salary scale. He was free to negotiate any amount he could manage. It's worth noting that contract had in it something like $17 mil in incentives and escalators, by the way. If he didn't earn them it was because he was on the bench for 3 years. The salary cap at the time of Rodgers deal was $85.5 mil, about half what it will be by 2018 for some perspective. In year 4, he broke out. After that year he got a nice renegotiation. What's wrong with that? Had he blown an Achilles on the first day of OTAs and never played a down that "rounding error" would have been a rip off, as with Sherrod (or Justin Harrell, or any other busted first rounder). There's 20/20 hindsight in your complaint.</p><p></p><p>Matthews also signed before the rookie salary scale was in place with the cap set at $123 mil for 2009. While Matthews was immediately impactful, the chronic hamstring injuries were troublesome. In any case, the Packers end up with a winning deal in the win-some-lose-some draft roulette. And Matthews got a whopping deal a year early for his trouble.</p><p></p><p>Sherrod was signed under the rookie scale. The salary scale is intended to prevent the opposite scenario that is worthy of equal complaint...Sam Bradford getting a $76 million rookie contract with $50 mil guaranteed being the last and largest of the ever more excessive rookie deals. Bradford was the last straw and the owners' poster child for the 2011 CBA negotiation.</p><p></p><p>All players are speculative at the time they are drafted. You win some; you lose some. At least the salary scale puts some rationality into the process instead of paying guys Pro Bowl money before they've even taken a snap.</p><p></p><p>The nub of the problem is in the nature of binding contracts (and collective bargaining agreements)...sometimes one party comes out ahead and the other gets the short end of the stick. How could it ever be otherwise? Sometimes, the guy on the long end wants to keep the guy on the short end happy and renegotiates. Sometimes he doesn't. In every walk of life people sign employment contracts or join a union. Some underperform their pay; some outperform it. What are you going to do about it? A contract is a contract. Life can be fair; often it is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 617268"] Rodgers signed that deal before there was a rookie salary scale. He was free to negotiate any amount he could manage. It's worth noting that contract had in it something like $17 mil in incentives and escalators, by the way. If he didn't earn them it was because he was on the bench for 3 years. The salary cap at the time of Rodgers deal was $85.5 mil, about half what it will be by 2018 for some perspective. In year 4, he broke out. After that year he got a nice renegotiation. What's wrong with that? Had he blown an Achilles on the first day of OTAs and never played a down that "rounding error" would have been a rip off, as with Sherrod (or Justin Harrell, or any other busted first rounder). There's 20/20 hindsight in your complaint. Matthews also signed before the rookie salary scale was in place with the cap set at $123 mil for 2009. While Matthews was immediately impactful, the chronic hamstring injuries were troublesome. In any case, the Packers end up with a winning deal in the win-some-lose-some draft roulette. And Matthews got a whopping deal a year early for his trouble. Sherrod was signed under the rookie scale. The salary scale is intended to prevent the opposite scenario that is worthy of equal complaint...Sam Bradford getting a $76 million rookie contract with $50 mil guaranteed being the last and largest of the ever more excessive rookie deals. Bradford was the last straw and the owners' poster child for the 2011 CBA negotiation. All players are speculative at the time they are drafted. You win some; you lose some. At least the salary scale puts some rationality into the process instead of paying guys Pro Bowl money before they've even taken a snap. The nub of the problem is in the nature of binding contracts (and collective bargaining agreements)...sometimes one party comes out ahead and the other gets the short end of the stick. How could it ever be otherwise? Sometimes, the guy on the long end wants to keep the guy on the short end happy and renegotiates. Sometimes he doesn't. In every walk of life people sign employment contracts or join a union. Some underperform their pay; some outperform it. What are you going to do about it? A contract is a contract. Life can be fair; often it is not. [/QUOTE]
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