07-29-2023, 08:50 AM
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10. Through a random lottery drawing, you have been named the league's new commissioner for a day. Congrats! What improvements would you make to the league if you had the power to do whatever you wanted?
I would make it real for players.
To start with, I would turn on injuries. Five powerful words. Injuries are part of a professional football player’s life. It’s part of the sport. It helps to shape a season, define a team’s destiny, and ultimately decides how far a player can succeed in his career. Will players be devastated if they suffer a multiple week injury? Absolutely. But that’s the game. Next man up. Real life football is littered with players whose stories would never have played out if the guy in front of them in the depth chart never suffered an injury. Let’s turn injuries on and watch the drama unfold.
The second change I would bring in would be a greater diversity of the salary cap. There is too much parity across the league regarding position to pay. The hardest position in sports, the Quarterback, in some, most cases, earns the same amount as a Tight End or a Defensive Tackle. I know the current system sets contract minimums by TPE earned, but I feel this can be improved. So, how would I address this imbalance? By setting a minimum level by position. With pay weighted by position importance.
And to end my day as the league’s new commissioner, I would expand the scope of a team’s ability to work their cap situation by bringing in a greater level of detail which would allow GMs a much greater level of flexibility. I would allow contracts to be written up that can include any of the following stipulations: Guaranteed money, Base salary, Signing bonus, Roster bonus, Option bonus, Workout bonus, Incentives and Salary escalators. Professional football roster management because of the strict salary cap is a minefield for teams that require deft skills to balance short and long objectives and for players too it can be a particularly tough business when it comes to talking money.
I would make it real for players.
To start with, I would turn on injuries. Five powerful words. Injuries are part of a professional football player’s life. It’s part of the sport. It helps to shape a season, define a team’s destiny, and ultimately decides how far a player can succeed in his career. Will players be devastated if they suffer a multiple week injury? Absolutely. But that’s the game. Next man up. Real life football is littered with players whose stories would never have played out if the guy in front of them in the depth chart never suffered an injury. Let’s turn injuries on and watch the drama unfold.
The second change I would bring in would be a greater diversity of the salary cap. There is too much parity across the league regarding position to pay. The hardest position in sports, the Quarterback, in some, most cases, earns the same amount as a Tight End or a Defensive Tackle. I know the current system sets contract minimums by TPE earned, but I feel this can be improved. So, how would I address this imbalance? By setting a minimum level by position. With pay weighted by position importance.
And to end my day as the league’s new commissioner, I would expand the scope of a team’s ability to work their cap situation by bringing in a greater level of detail which would allow GMs a much greater level of flexibility. I would allow contracts to be written up that can include any of the following stipulations: Guaranteed money, Base salary, Signing bonus, Roster bonus, Option bonus, Workout bonus, Incentives and Salary escalators. Professional football roster management because of the strict salary cap is a minefield for teams that require deft skills to balance short and long objectives and for players too it can be a particularly tough business when it comes to talking money.