It's understandable for players and fans to be upset about taking pay cuts at the tail end of careers. However, the NFL (and professional sports in general) is a different business than the standard with salary caps and the need/desire for youth while there's a lot of it out there. Yes it would be wonderful if the guys can play for a long time and continue to make more money or never settle for less to play, but that doesn't happen for most. Brian wanted to play longer and the Vikings were willing to fill a roster spot with one of the oldest DEs left in the league, with a renegotiation. They could have cut him and he'd have been forced to give it up early or sit and wait for a team to sign him for minimum... such as AD is doing.
Quote: @96POPS said:
@ RS Express said:
No mention of his taking a pay cut, so hopefully the initial report of that months ago was wrong.
Welcome back Brian!
News of that will probably come later. It was a deep cut. If there was ever any
question as to his need or desire to make more money over his loyalty to this team and his love of this game it should be put to rest. After a long conversation with him
I realized he chose to return because he truly has been where he's always wanted to be. This may and probably will be his last chance to complete some unfinished business.
Pops, I know as a proud Dad, you just want the best for Brian. His coming back, I think, not only shows his loyalty to the players but his desire to stay around them and try for the ring one more time. From what I hear, its a unique and close locker room. It would be hard to leave that all behind when the team is as close as they are to a possible championship.
One more time, one more grind. Would be great to take it home this season.
How much cap room do we have?
Quote: @mgobluevikes said:
How much cap room do we have?
Less than $15M.
And we have a few players we may want to keep who are coming up for new deals: Barr, Hunter, Diggs, Richardson (I hope). They just picked up the 5th year option on Waynes at close to $10M and extended Kendricks on a big deal.
RS is not cutting players or salaries in order to take that money for himself. He is just doing his job.
Rather than kill RS, I would prefer the NFL (i.e., the owners of the teams) increased the rosters and the salary cap. The sale of the Panthers will give us a good idea of what most teams are currently worth. Whatever that number turns out to be, the owners are billionaires. I know the deal now is to accumulate all the wealth in the world in as few hands as possible. I would prefer a different model, where you shared the wealth with the people who helped you make it. But whatever.
Quote: @dadevike said:
RS is not cutting players or salaries in order to take that money for himself. He is just doing his job.
Rather than kill RS, I would prefer the NFL (i.e., the owners of the teams) increased the rosters and the salary cap. The sale of the Panthers will give us a good idea of what most teams are currently worth. Whatever that number turns out to be, the owners are billionaires. I know the deal now is to accumulate all the wealth in the world in as few hands as possible. I would prefer a different model, where you shared the wealth with the people who helped you make it. But whatever.
All true. Maybe some people should wait to see the contract details before crucifying management. The Vikings have already paid Robison $42M over his career.
Quote: @Jor-El said:
@ dadevike said:
RS is not cutting players or salaries in order to take that money for himself. He is just doing his job.
Rather than kill RS, I would prefer the NFL (i.e., the owners of the teams) increased the rosters and the salary cap. The sale of the Panthers will give us a good idea of what most teams are currently worth. Whatever that number turns out to be, the owners are billionaires. I know the deal now is to accumulate all the wealth in the world in as few hands as possible. I would prefer a different model, where you shared the wealth with the people who helped you make it. But whatever.
All true. Maybe some people should wait to see the contract details before crucifying management. The Vikings have already paid Robison $42M over his career.
Quote: @Jor-El said:
@ dadevike said:
RS is not cutting players or salaries in order to take that money for himself. He is just doing his job.
Rather than kill RS, I would prefer the NFL (i.e., the owners of the teams) increased the rosters and the salary cap. The sale of the Panthers will give us a good idea of what most teams are currently worth. Whatever that number turns out to be, the owners are billionaires. I know the deal now is to accumulate all the wealth in the world in as few hands as possible. I would prefer a different model, where you shared the wealth with the people who helped you make it. But whatever.
All true. Maybe some people should wait to see the contract details before crucifying management. The Vikings have already paid Robison $42M over his career.
$42m and he can still afford a pay cut to come back and play 1/3 of the downs. Really I'm not knocking on BRob. I really like the man. I'm glad to have his leadership back but that does kind of put the sacrifice in perspective.
Eh...as much as I'd be all for BRob making gazillions per minute, the team's looming young free agent contracts are a topic that isn't going away anytime soon. If BRob is OK with it in one more pursuit of a ring, I'm OK with it.
Again, I'd have been fine with paying RBob what Richardson got, just because I've loved him being on the team. That said, hating on RS and/or the Vikings over this doesn't help anything. I'd rather concentrate on sending good juju to BRob and the team in pursuit of that evasive Lombardi...and hoping that he can retire with a ring and maybe a mega-successful autobiography or something.
I can't imagine there is a Vikings fan, player, executive, or owner that does not appreciate what Brian has done as a Viking. He has been a first rate representative of the team on and off the field. Nobody is trying to screw him. And he is in a position such that he would not allow anyone to take advantage of him.
I'm glad he and the team found a way to bring him back for one more ride.
Quote: @dadevike said:
I can't imagine there is a Vikings fan, player, executive, or owner that does not appreciate what Brian has done as a Viking. He has been a first rate representative of the team on and off the field. Nobody is trying to screw him. And he is in a position such that he would not allow anyone to take advantage of him.
I'm glad he and the team found a way to bring him back for one more ride.
Gonna say that "executive" and the phrase about not trying to screw him probably aren't compatible. I think in general, the "how can I get more for less" is the mantra of the executives. These guys are gladiators and often get treated as such.
I think Pops has been more than transparent in the past as to how Brian and some of the others have been handled. Like I said before, they knew last year what this year was going to be about and B has said all along that 18 was going to be his final season... if they were gonna chop his legs out they should have made it clear when he redid his contract last year instead of going back to the same well once again. They had him in a tough spot and used it against him, that's not loyalty.... that's chicken shit IMO.
He's earned his money, they should have given it to him. Hell Rick has made a career of over paying and now when a good loyal player is on the table... sorry its just plain a shitty thing to do.
Some said it's ok since Brian has made 42 million in 10 years... well kirk was just guaranteed double that and he's done nothing for the team yet. The system is screwed up.
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