You gotta love today’s NFL if you are a quarterback. One good half season can earn you a 50 million dollar a year contract or more. Jordan Love is the latest example. Turns out Love learned one important thing about the game from his mentor Aaron Rodgers – it’s all about the money. Get as much as you can even if it hurts your chances to win a Super Bowl. Love put together a stellar second half of the season last year and now he’s a hold out.
But he’s in camp you say, he’s not holding out. Not practicing is holding out. The NFL needs to get rid of this loophole allowing players to avoid $50,000 a day fines by showing up but violating the terms of their contracts by not practicing. If you aren’t going to practice you shouldn’t be allowed in the facility. If it was me running the show I would just tell him to stay away until the deal is complete.
Contracts have consequences
Once Love signs the Packers can start thinking about what players they will have dump in coming years. They will surely only be able to keep one or two of their young receivers when they become eligible for extensions. With QBs getting 60 mill and receivers now getting 35 mil, there isn’t much left to go around. Two players will be damn near half the salary cap.
It makes you wonder if teams will start going with one big deal for quarterbacks and then look to replace him when that deal is done. After all, the Packers paid huge money to Rodgers for 13 years after his only Super Bowl win and got jack squat from him in return. They could have been in the Mahomes sweepstakes had they decided to move on rather than pay Rodgers.
I’m sure Love’s deal will get done in the next day or so, but it’s just another bad look for the notoriously greedy National Football League.