Post by blu4everii on Jan 19, 2024 2:48:19 GMT -5
I admire Jones in a way. He's made a ton of money in his own time. That contrasts with the semi elegance and classiness of a (best of schools and which for to use) of the third generation Mara's.
The contrast is interesting. Until boundaries are crossed.
The Mara's created the league with the proposition that tv revenues and other sources of income be shared. It gave us a league where Green Bay could compete with NY market derived money.
If the Mara's have a respect for the league and it's traditions, it's just as rational to assume that the new proliatariat and self made Jones would not. Consistent with that, Jones forced changes that permitted him to keep a higher percentage of the revenue he was generating. Agree or not there's a rational operating there.
Now he's facing huge cap problems.
A long time before Watten Sapp uttered his defining thoughts, I thought that Jerry was - at least as likely as not - skirting around the cap.
Think of it...a relentless drive to win and unlimited resources that you created and therefore answer to no man for.
"Don't worry about it" said the HOF'er from Tampa on national TV, "they can always get around the cap when they want to"....."You bring Deon into the office and you hand him a suitcase filled with cash".
Consider too that cash isn't taxed, so every dollar of suitcase money is worth two plus of formal salary.
The remark seeminly was hushed up..or at least I've never seen it referenced or mentioned. Interesting, Sapp was specific mentioning a particular player and particular organization and both, independent of the remark, fit a profile.
I would ask, "how can it not be so?"
I think it's just as likely that the Mara's don't play that game.
I chuckle at the naivate here that claims that Dallas drafts so well. Taco Charlton or Watts? Two years and two second rounders spent on Gregory and Smith. And Smith being that rarest of draft picks because it was flawed and couldn't work - even in a best case scenario. They drafted him with an injury that would take two year IF it was successfully healed. Or just in time to leave them or hold them up, IE again, if it was healed.
Cash and the advantage it provides covers up a lot of mistakes.
Thing is, if I"m right, you're never going to hear about it. Discovery would deal the NFL a belly shot that would have negative repercussions for the whole league.
Does this diminish interest in the league? WEll it might,and maybe it even should; but it won't.
The contrast is interesting. Until boundaries are crossed.
The Mara's created the league with the proposition that tv revenues and other sources of income be shared. It gave us a league where Green Bay could compete with NY market derived money.
If the Mara's have a respect for the league and it's traditions, it's just as rational to assume that the new proliatariat and self made Jones would not. Consistent with that, Jones forced changes that permitted him to keep a higher percentage of the revenue he was generating. Agree or not there's a rational operating there.
Now he's facing huge cap problems.
A long time before Watten Sapp uttered his defining thoughts, I thought that Jerry was - at least as likely as not - skirting around the cap.
Think of it...a relentless drive to win and unlimited resources that you created and therefore answer to no man for.
"Don't worry about it" said the HOF'er from Tampa on national TV, "they can always get around the cap when they want to"....."You bring Deon into the office and you hand him a suitcase filled with cash".
Consider too that cash isn't taxed, so every dollar of suitcase money is worth two plus of formal salary.
The remark seeminly was hushed up..or at least I've never seen it referenced or mentioned. Interesting, Sapp was specific mentioning a particular player and particular organization and both, independent of the remark, fit a profile.
I would ask, "how can it not be so?"
I think it's just as likely that the Mara's don't play that game.
I chuckle at the naivate here that claims that Dallas drafts so well. Taco Charlton or Watts? Two years and two second rounders spent on Gregory and Smith. And Smith being that rarest of draft picks because it was flawed and couldn't work - even in a best case scenario. They drafted him with an injury that would take two year IF it was successfully healed. Or just in time to leave them or hold them up, IE again, if it was healed.
Cash and the advantage it provides covers up a lot of mistakes.
Thing is, if I"m right, you're never going to hear about it. Discovery would deal the NFL a belly shot that would have negative repercussions for the whole league.
Does this diminish interest in the league? WEll it might,and maybe it even should; but it won't.