Now That Payton Is Taken, The Next Rumored Cowboys Coach Is….

A little bit of NFL history for some on you.

The Saints made a very solid offer to sign Deion Samders in 1994, but the Niners swooped in and signed him to a one year deal that, on paper, paid him far less. The year 1994 is a pivotal year in NFL history as it was the first year of the salary cap. The Saints offer would have made Prime Time the second highest paid defensive player in the league. Four years $17.1 million.

Instead of signing with the Saints, Sanders signed a one year deal with the 49'ers, which on paper, paid him just $1,884,000 for one year. Years later, in 2000, former 49'ers team executives Carmen Policy and Dwight Clark were fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and the 49'ers were also fined for violating the NFL salary cap in 1994. They were popped for relatively minor players, Jim Druckenmiller and Lee Woodall, but I always suspected that they actually paid Deion Sanders a boatload of cash under the table. Sanders won a Super Bowl with the 49'ers after the 1994 season and signed with the Cowboys in 1995, where he won another Super Bowl after the 1995 season. I always suspected that the NFL and 49'ers swept under the rug the under the table payments to Sanders, likely made by the 49'ers in 1994, because they couldn't make a future Hall of Fame player out to be a cheat.

That's just my two cents on this. How different would NFL history be in Deion Ssmders had played for the Saints from 1994 through 1997, instead of the Niners (Super Bowl 1994) and the Cowboys (Super Bowl 1995)?

I hope Deion Sanders has a great coaching career going forward. I'm very excited about his future


https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/09/03/saints-say-sanders-finds-offers-wanting/
https://overthecap.com/player/deion-sanders/8578
https://yourteamcheats.com/SF
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NFL-probing-49ers-for-salary-cap-violations-3308679.php