and that I just find intriguing,
you know, they're just
they're out of the woods with the Mahomes contract and
I don't get a sense that he really gives a damn or he's
worried about. Oh man, I mean,
Patrick Mahomes is I think the sixth highest paid quarterback
as we stand right now. I'm sure if you quarterbacks are going
to pass them this offseason, he's going into the next year
as far as the 2023 season.
You know, he's got a big cap.
Number, but he's only, he's gonna get 40 million in cash.
I mean, his numbers, the next few years 40 3741 4159
which, okay, 59 and 2027, that's nothing. I mean, Aaron
Rodgers making 60 this year
so you'll look at it and go. Wow, what a contract and
they're going to continue to be able to build as they go on
here and I don't get the impression that he's going to,
you know, ask for more here anytime soon.
Unfortunate. It's unfortunate.
And it's the one gripe I would have with him.
It hurts other quarterbacks. Yeah, there was a
period of time where the market
for the highest-paid quarterbacks wasn't going up
because Tom Brady Tom Brady's fall, right? Take every last
penny that he could get and look it's all worked out well
for Tom, Brady elsewhere. But you know to the extent that
there is
at some level and I've heard this from others justifying
their own selfishness, which is fine. It's okay to be selfish.
Look, everybody else is getting paid. And the owners get 50
cents on the dollar, the players get the rest, it's up
to the team to figure out how to
work. The salary cap. Peyton, Manning's attitude. Always was,
it's my job to get paid as much as possible. It's your job to
manage the salary cap. They have the ability with draft
picks every year to get players at a low cap number
and keep them around. And the Chiefs are doing a good job of
it. I'm looking at the Mahomes contract. Now, he's got
a roster bonus of thirty, four point four million with a base
salary of thirty five 5.5, not 35.5.
That gets him right up to 40
for the year. And you look into this cotton this contract last
until 2031, right and all idea was when he signed his deal
because it was a mistake.
I was against it's the only thing he's ever done
that. I've criticized and there's been talk that
his agent just wanted to be able to say we got a half
billion dollar contract. Well if you extended enough years
yeah it's going to be a half billion dollars but it's not
about maximizing the guys year in and year out Revenue that
the Chiefs will take care of it at some point. Well you're
trusting
them. M to do something, they're not required to do.
And if Patrick Mahomes isn't rattling, any cages
to get more money, why would they
do with that? No.
No. Sorry. But you signed a contract through 2031, there's
an element to of ego and pride that comes into this. You
signed the contract that ties your hands through
20:31 that commits you to the team.
And if you start asking for more, you are. Implicitly
acknowledging. You did a bad contract. So, you know. And and
look,
How much is enough? That's right now. She's a conversation.
But but you know, by now else
tell him to the people with the super Yachts, I know how much
is enough. I hear you them. I know every last penny they can
of getting triggered on this the oligarchs. Grab every last
mother effing tent. They can
and we never say anything about it. I know there's a, we just
Titans of Industry.
Well done, capitalism. Yes, go rich people
but when a A player,
not forbid. When a player breathe a word about maybe
getting more for me. Going out there, putting his life on
the line
literally, as we saw six weeks and three days ago with Tamar,
Hamlin. Oh, he's a selfish bastard. Oh, how dare you want
more money? You don't care about your team, you don't care
about winning.
Meanwhile meanwhile
you got the owner the team kicking back sailing around
the Mediterranean on the 300 million dollars. Hot bought and
paid for by the fact that it all his benefits. Them, his
whole mindset of don't be selfish player, don't demand
too much money player. How dare you want that money?
And that money just keeps pouring into the pockets
of the people who need it far less.
The last people on Earth, who need that money of the ones who
are getting more of it? It's amazing to me. Sorry. Yeah, no,
I'd listen, I don't.
This is me off. I hear you
you know, we lock the Millionaires and
the Billionaire's into the same bucket for Folks, there is
a fundamental difference between Millionaires and billionaires.
It is 30 so it is a huge difference and most of
the Billionaire's aren't just
1 billion hits
as its mobile
team. You got 70 billion
in Denver, which is one of the three owners. The other two are
billionaires as well. Are you kidding me?
And we
players want more. Get the F out. Here we yeah, well,
I mean, listen a lot of these owners of the the money they
spend on the team and all that is kind of like, Fu money
anyways. It's like it's not like really ending their
their life. I know a few of them are the family business and
but but I hear you
it's a messed-up system.
It is, you know, its it is
it's certainly swayed to the owners and a huge capacity more
than any other sport. I think there is some argument to be
made, you know,
the salary cap the non-guaranteed Indeed contracts
are what make the sport, really awesome to a degree. But yeah,
what I like to see the players get a little bit bigger piece
of the pie.
100%, no doubt about that. You know, again not only the money
that we talk about that you're talking about that the owners
rake in every year. The appreciation
of the the franchises themselves is like gigantic if
they made zero dollars their appreciation of the
the organizations and they want to sell it
is huge money. As we know, but
the thing with Mahomes and getting back to that, I think
he's very Legacy aware I do. I don't, I think he's a little
like, what you were talking about? He's like
what's the difference if I got 320 million in the bank and
I had 350 million in the bank. I know there's a big difference,
but when you start to get those kind of numbers, it's not that
big of a difference
and I do think like Mike to
something else that plays
a factor. Here. Because it now, we've hit this stage
Mahomes has become such a star. Now,
see this is where it happened with Brady
that he could swallow. I'm taking less because he can go,
I can make whatever I want in the offseason.
I can make whatever I want and endorsements. Now
anything my name is next to
is going to be, you know, a six-figure deal. You know, you
want me to do cou to commercials yeah that's going
to be, you know, 12 million dollars.
Rosario whatever. I mean it's going to be huge money
for whatever he does now
because he, you know, is now an officially an all-time great
officially
s***. So, because the every dollar he leaves behind, ya
is going into, I know hips pop,
okay? And this whole mind that everything you're saying Chris,
and I know you believe it, your product of the system, I get
it. Yeah, get it, I understand it. Yeah,
for me the moment of Awakening can't during the lockout in
Eleven. That's when I began to think of it differently. The
idea
that the players have no equity, all the players have is
their ability to earn money during that relatively limited
slice of their lives where someone will pay them a lot of
money to play football. And the moment that
goes away, they're done. Hey, if Patrick Mahomes all of
a sudden
becomes Russell Wilson,
you think they're going to keep him?
You think they're going to pay them all that money? No,
I don't care about up in they're going to because it's in
the best interest of the team to find a better quarterback.
So.
And and look.
There's no easy way to navigate this but the reality is what's
it every swing 320 million and 350 million, its 30 million.
And you know who thinks that way the people who have 30
billion. I know, I know but when you're chasing,
when you're chasing five more rings are five more trophies.
And if that's the what you got to do
to be again, your end goal was to be the greatest of all time.
I just know me. I'd go screw it, I don't care. I want to be
the greatest of all. All time
I'll take 320 million, screw the 350 million,
and that's the kind of guy we're talking about here,
you know, that, that, and it sucks Mike cause you're right.
They use it against you. They're using against his love
of the game and the love of the sport all against them,
and that's where it does suck. But a guy like Mahomes, or Josh
down or Joe Borough are going to so go. Okay, fine. I'm just
going to deal with it, because I want to be the greatest.
There's a point where you just say you know what, I've already
won my championships. I'm already in the Deion Sanders
Upper Room at the hall of fame.
I'm just I'm getting mine, I'm getting mine because the moment
that I can't play anymore, they're not going to pay me
anymore. And
why is it incumbent on me
like oh, it should be enough that you can leverage your Fame
and make money elsewhere. I still
this is a conversation. That's a good conversation, you know,
it is. It's a good conversation, tough needle to
thread it. Is he
Preying upon the desire, you have a player to win
championships, to have those parades to be regarded as
the greatest of all time,
you know, how much money you get for being in the greatest
of all time? Nothing there. I know a check, right? They don't
have a special fund that pays cash
to the greatest of all time. It's just recognition and, you
know,
while there's a lot of endorsements that come with it,
there is we've seen that. I mean that you can argue that
and you can launch your own business. I mean, look at my
form that can come whatever you want buddy. But still
the money is flowing through like never before record
billion 17 billion on the way to the 25 billion of Roger
Goodell has envisioned. The owners are getting half at plus
100 percent of the equity
and the players get manipulated by fans and media and their own
ego. Like, you know, it's a different kind of selfish to
want to be the greatest of all time you want to set.
Stuff above and beyond every other player. There's
selfishness in that. Yeah, he's just acted, pretty lady. So
the oligarchs have found a way
to redirect the selfishness into something that allows them
to keep more of their money. Don't you want to be
the greatest of all time? Boy, I wish you were the greatest of
all time. Because you know
what? If you are,
doesn't cost me a penny.
Oh yeah. All right.
But one thing I wanted one. Last thing I want to say about
that. Just one last thing because I mean I think it is
a good conversation, we hit it all and I think that's That's
why we're sitting here back to the the real point of this. Why
we then candidate cities and be hanging around for a
while? Because Mahomes, I don't think is going to be asking for
anything and he wants all those Legacy things that you talked
about.
The other thing too
is like the great quarterbacks and a lot of ways Mahomes, Josh
Allen Borough would ever even Brady.
I don't, I think there's a part of them to that looks at it.
And goes, I don't really think I'm five times better than some
of these players on my roster who are making eight million or
9. In a year,
right? So there's a little bit of that is,
I know who others a little, the human element. And here's
the biggest thing,
the biggest thing to the market and to what you're talking
about and if Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and burrow
aren't gonna strike for every last dollar they can. The one
thing I want to see them do is when the next CBA comes up.
They need to be at front and center
and fight for the rest of the league to get a bigger piece of
the pie. That's to me where the last generation dropped
the dropped. The, the what do they? What do you say? Drop the ball.
The ball. Exactly.
Yes, that that to me, is where
Peyton Manning Brady, Drew Brees
Aaron Rodgers. At the time, he was still very young.
They didn't, they weren't, they should have been at the front
of the line standing up against the owners in the last CBA. And
I think they kind of
took a backseat because they didn't want to be the bad guy.
And I hope this group doesn't do that going forward.
All part of the psychology.
It's all part of the fact, the fans and the media
are wired to side with the Billionaire's and to fight
between owners and players we root for the laundry. That's
the old Jerry Seinfeld bit. We root for the laundry and
the laundry changes out regularly from player to player to
player, but the team is always the same. We naturally are
inclined to
support the team. And in so doing we support the owners
and in our view, collectively
Millionaires and billionaires the same thing.
Folks, it is not and meanwhile they're just sitting back and
making more and they're making more and the players are
getting
our, they're getting
adequate compensation. But is it fair for? What they do? Is
it fair for what? They bring to the table should Patrick
Mahomes, not be making more than the commissioner
commissioner.
The last we heard was 60
dollar point should should
not be making more
than the guy who doesn't ever walked? And anyone who ever
the
owners are different thing because they actually have
the equity any employee of the own nurse
which the commissioner is
There should be no one who isn't playing.
It's making more than the best player in the NFL and what's
the commission going to make? We don't know anymore because
of that whole stupid tax-exempt League office thing. That
was a PR mess and it got turned into,
you know, the league
keeping all of that secret. Now we don't know how much Goodell
makes maybe he's making twice what my home is makes which is
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