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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 947034" data-attributes="member: 7261">Guaranteed contracts are what shackle bad players to teams.  I am not saying Bahk is now a bust, but the Packers just paid him a sh*t load of money, he barely played this season and they are shackled so tightly to him, that they will continue to pay it for at least another year.The whole problem with most sports, is that you are paying a guy based on projected future performance.  Not on what he actually is going to do, but what he has already done.  Which 30 or so years ago wasn't that big of a deal.  Then guaranteed contracts/amounts rolled in.  Which to me is saying "We guarantee to pay you this amount, no matter if you play good, bad or not at all."  That part has ruined football IMO.  Maybe not the guarantees themselves, but the amounts that are guaranteed is just sickening.</blockquote>

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