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Originally posted by CoachAlan
Consider that a player's salary is relative to the amount of revenue the game generates. If the Browns don't pay out the money to their players, then it just stays in the pockets of the Lerner family.
Somebody's going to get rich off the NFL. Why would you prefer that it be the already-crazy-wealthy owners and not the players who put their bodies on the line every day? The Lerners are rich enough. Asking for income that's relative to the type of wealth you're expected to generate seems fairly reasonable to me.
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That would be a good argument in Baseball or maybe basketball, but football is the ultimate team sport. I have never paid to see a football game just for a player. I have in Baseball, and basketball... well I've never gone but Lebron has me interested enough to think about going to a game.
I might have gone to see the Browns for Bernie, but without players like Slaughter, Byner, Mack, Mcneil and so on Bernie was useless and wouldn't be worth the money.
To say a player in the NFL raises revenue, to me is not even close to true. Cleveland will have full houses whether Kellen is there or not. And in the NFL injuries happen so often and if Kellen is injured for say 10 games he hasn't helped revenue, has he?
Kellen will only be as good as the defense and offense allow him to be. The past 2 years in Cleveland proved that. The offensive line didn't work as hard to protect Couch because he wasn't a team player. The offense worked a lot harder blocking for Holcomb because he wanted the team to do well and wasn't worried about his stats.
Point is there is NOONE in the NFL bigger than the team and to believe otherwise is to fall into that trap of allowing these boys who have never played a game to sit out until "their demands and needs are met" and not the teams.
If Kellen establishes himself the money will come. If he doesn't establish then he wasn't worth the signing and the well for him will dry up fast.
To me I'd kill to have the oppurtunity to make that kind of money. I'd do the best I could to prove I was worth every penny and I'd work my ass off to show that when contract time comes I deserve more. I wouldn't sit out and cry that I need more before I demonstrated what I could do.
College ball IS NOT the same as the NFL and anyone who thinks just because they starred in college they can star in the NFL is foolish and needs a psychologist to balance their ego. 2 time Heisman winner Archie Griffin didn't do anything in the NFL. Tim Couch couldn't, Ryan Leaf, and the list goes on and on with college greats who couldn't get the job done in the pros. It happens every year.
Perhaps, Kellen just doesn't want to be a Brown and is using this as an excuse. In which case he could tell the front office he truly doesn't want to play in Cleveland and they could work a deal and trade him away. I'm sure there's a team that could give the Browns a nice return for a selfish egotistical player who doesn't care about the team.