N/S Texans sign CB Derek Stingley to 3 years, $90M with $89M guaranteed

[TribuneUK]

These contracts and their growth can't be sustained. Soon long snappers are going to start asking for $15M/season.

There's going to be a market collapse eventually, imo, and the teams with money are going to feast on it.

I'm pretty confident I've heard this said every season for over a decade and yet no collapse has yet occurred.

People just get sticker shock at the big numbers. The deal will either turn out to be good value or not, whatever the dollar signs attached.

 

[Doug B]

There's going to be a market collapse eventually

Way down the road ... it will require the TV money to plateau because the ever-increasing salary cap is calculated from league revenues. As far as I'm aware, TV revenue has never plateaued since pro football took over the airwaves around 1960.

The chart below just shows the seven-fold increase in NFL broadcast rights between 1997 and 2016, before streaming services entered the picture. The readers can paint the rest of the picture themselves.



See also here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/04/nfl-media-rights-media-landscape.html

 

[Rexman100]

These contracts and their growth can't be sustained. Soon long snappers are going to start asking for $15M/season.

There's going to be a market collapse eventually, imo, and the teams with money are going to feast on it.

Seems like we're in a different league than these other teams. lol

 

[triumph]

These contracts and their growth can't be sustained. Soon long snappers are going to start asking for $15M/season.

There's going to be a market collapse eventually, imo, and the teams with money are going to feast on it.

As long as there is a market for NFL entertainment it absolutely can be sustained. Player pay is tied to the gross revenue of the NFL product (47-48%). They are the product and the ones putting their health on the line for our pleasure. I love Gayle, but didnt buy season tickets to watch the Bensons own the team. If the football operations believe that dividing their resources in this manner is best for their team, that's their preference. They must spend a certain amount of money as a salary floor exists.

Teams with/without money have nothing to do with it as most of the NFL revenue is shared amongst all clubs equally (TV contracts). Paul Brown cancry poor about paying his players, but he's full of it. He gets the same TV money as Jerry Jones.

I agree with the notion that it seems that there is too much money in the NFL, but that's wayyy out of scope for this topic.

 

[superchuck500]

These contracts and their growth can't be sustained. Soon long snappers are going to start asking for $15M/season.

There's going to be a market collapse eventually, imo, and the teams with money are going to feast on it.

The salary cap is based on revenue - and it goes up about an average of 6 to 14 percent every year with the exception of the Covid year. The percentage of league revenue that has to go to the players is set by CBA. The only way it collapses is if league revenue collapses.

If a team wants to spend $30M on a starting corner, they are going to have to make it work and long-snappers can demand all they want, what matters is what they can sign for - it's a market.