FanYard Football Predictions 

Finally! Someone besides the better than average football fan with a brain in their heads decided to make the point that NFL rookies get paid WAAAYYYY tooo many $$$$ before even taking a snap in the real league of football!

Commissioner Goodell, the next time your league has the Rolling Stones play at the Super Bowl, have them start off with ‘Sympathy For The Devil’. Good luck trying to get them to change their lyrics, though. I hear it does not go over so well with them.

If they do bite, here’s a first suggestion:

Please allow me to introduce myself
Soon be a man of wealth and (hopefully) taste
I’ve been around for nary a year
Stole many a team’s soul and faith

And I was around when Mike Ditka
Completely sold out the Saints
Made damn sure that no amount of help
Would soon erase his mistakes

Pleased to meet you
Good luck with ever knowing my name
I’ll puzzle you
With the nature of my game

Yeah. It is the Song of the Unknown Rookie. There is no need for me to go into details; suffice it to say that many - if not most - do not turn into what their respective drafting teams had hoped. And, often, the players that turn into the franchisers are those taken in the later rounds.

For those rookies who are getting paid tens of millions of dollars before doing anything worthwhile in the league that is now yours, I say this, “Relish it, because sanity has finally come to town.”

What other job do you get paid more than many who are doing it well and have been doing so for years just on the off chance that you might one day be better than they were?

Right off the bat, I’d have to say none. Why? Because it makes no EFF-ING sense, is why!!! It seems pretty straight forward, really. If owners are worried about saving money so much that they will trash the CBA, here’s a good start at doing something that might keep millions of their precious dollars from being thrown away: Put a very significant cap on rookies.

Period.

No need then to worry if Alex Smith will be a good QB, even though you have to pay him as if he were the next coming of Joe Montana. If these kids don’t prove worthy, then cut them. BOOM. Problem solved. Back to life, like every other person. Not their fault, nor yours. Just the way things go.

Sure, you may have wasted a draft pick, but better to have wasted a draft pick and be done with it than to have it hanging around your neck like a sailor with an albatross that brings your team down for years simply because of a salary cap structure that acts like an anchor on a cursed ship.

Anyway, I gotta give kudos to Goodell for taking the hard road on athletic fools who choose to think they are above the law and now for being the first person of note to acknowledge the inherent idiocy that comes each year with rookie pay in the NFL.

I honestly did not see this coming. Unlike the rookies who are soon to be, however, I love it!

FanYard should set up a Yardstick for the length of each rookie’s career. Well, maybe just the top few.

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