Kristian: Restructure Brees? Not so simple, and awfully risky

burningmetal · 02-24-2013, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by TheOak

And I can appreciate the "hope", but *****ing about it a year later seems to be some people's only reason to live.

I am obviously one of the few that believes two things, I would NEVER intentionally lower the income that comes into my home and takes care of my family, and the only person that is responsible for his contract size is the person that gave it to him.

The guy selling coffee at $10 a cup is not evil, the guy who bought it is an idiot. The Saints did not HAVE TO pay him anything, they could have moved on.

We shall see how it plays out. Denver seems to have done just fine paying Manning, Flacco is about to score huge, Rogers will do the same.... We are not the only team that feels its worth paying a super star QB 20% of your cap.

There is a lot of judging going on about a man based off of what someone else pays him.

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No, they didn't HAVE to pay him. But they sure had to pay him what he was demanding or face an uncertain period of mediocrity, without a proven QB.

I wouldn't lower the income in my home either. Guess what? Brees was getting a raise. Millions of dollars on top of the already millions of dollars he was receiving. There is no realistic comparison, bro. He could have gotten a 20 million dollar total raise, and left the team a little more cap room, but instead he wanted to be paid more than guys who have won more games, and just as many (in Brady's case, more) championships. Leaving our cap situation a mess.

I think this subject is coming up again because there were people who said at the time he signed the deal, that it wouldn't hurt us, because "Mickey will figure it out". Mickey ain't figuring nothing out. He's being forced to dump people and restructure others which will only make it more difficult in the future. As I said, I believe we'll rebuild in time, but make no mistake, it will be a major over haul.

It was going to happen someday anyway, but this shortens the window for the current team.

By the way, other players demanding ridiculous amounts of money aren't any better. But they don't play for the Saints, therefore no one here cares about them. Those teams didn't have the kind of cap problem the Saints had at the time of the deal. We had nothing left. So it was easy to see this crap coming.

02-24-2013, 10:28 PM	#13
burningmetal 1000 Posts + Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 3,923 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Kristian: Restructure Brees? Not so simple, and awfully risky Originally Posted by TheOak And I can appreciate the "hope", but *****ing about it a year later seems to be some people's only reason to live. I am obviously one of the few that believes two things, I would NEVER intentionally lower the income that comes into my home and takes care of my family, and the only person that is responsible for his contract size is the person that gave it to him. The guy selling coffee at $10 a cup is not evil, the guy who bought it is an idiot. The Saints did not HAVE TO pay him anything, they could have moved on. We shall see how it plays out. Denver seems to have done just fine paying Manning, Flacco is about to score huge, Rogers will do the same.... We are not the only team that feels its worth paying a super star QB 20% of your cap. There is a lot of judging going on about a man based off of what someone else pays him. NFL Salaries \| NFL Player Salaries \| SportsCity.com No, they didn't HAVE to pay him. But they sure had to pay him what he was demanding or face an uncertain period of mediocrity, without a proven QB. I wouldn't lower the income in my home either. Guess what? Brees was getting a raise. Millions of dollars on top of the already millions of dollars he was receiving. There is no realistic comparison, bro. He could have gotten a 20 million dollar total raise, and left the team a little more cap room, but instead he wanted to be paid more than guys who have won more games, and just as many (in Brady's case, more) championships. Leaving our cap situation a mess. I think this subject is coming up again because there were people who said at the time he signed the deal, that it wouldn't hurt us, because "Mickey will figure it out". Mickey ain't figuring nothing out. He's being forced to dump people and restructure others which will only make it more difficult in the future. As I said, I believe we'll rebuild in time, but make no mistake, it will be a major over haul. It was going to happen someday anyway, but this shortens the window for the current team. By the way, other players demanding ridiculous amounts of money aren't any better. But they don't play for the Saints, therefore no one here cares about them. Those teams didn't have the kind of cap problem the Saints had at the time of the deal. We had nothing left. So it was easy to see this crap coming. Crusader likes this.
	If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.

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