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I agree. Guaranteed contracts WOULD end all these holdouts, but the owners do not want to handicap themselves with a situation like that. They want to be able to cut players with years left on their deals with minimal repercussions while simultaneously blasting players for holding out if they outperform their current deals. Tagliabue will never allow the NFL to have guaranteed contracts, nor will any of the owners. I think they would prefer a player's only leverage be a holdout, even though they publically blast it. If they start giving out guaranteed contracts, you will see salaries and bonuses decrease cause no team is gonna tie themself into anyone who plays a sport where a career ending injury is a bad tackle in practice away. And players don't want that to happen. So the current system works for both sides, although they use it to play against one another.