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Originally Posted by BManBimma
The thing is NFL contracts are not fully guaranteed unless your name is DeShaun Watson. They may a 5 year contract on paper but 3 may be guaranteed and the other two years the owners have the option to franchise tag at a certain rate for two years. In the NFL I don't have an issue with the players holding out since it's high contact sport and your career can be over with one hit.
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I would also add these contracts and specifically the guarantees are opaque at best to the layperson. The only money a player is guaranteed is the money they receive at signing. The other "guaranteed" money is only guaranteed if the player is on the roster at certain dates as stipulated in the contract. A fair number of the players will never see all of the guaranteed money reported in these articles. The devil is in the details as they say.
In the grand scheme, these NFL contracts are awful relative to other professional sports leagues. What a lot of people don't realize is the lion's share of NFL players aren't making that much vis-a-vis the occupational hazard. I have no issue with players holding out and wanting more money because of the way these contracts are structured. Players in the NBA or MLB aren't holding out. The holdout is largely an NFL construct and won't go away until these contracts are fixed.