NFL: Bill Parcells in Going for the Win

Only Parcells has the personality to pull this off and if successful will be the Dolphins' and the league’s first win of the 2008 season.

This will set a precedent in league circles in curbing the amount of money rookies earn without establishing a definitive rookie salary cap. The deal would stop the astronomical growth in guaranteed money for the No.1 overall pick, which from 2003 to 2007 has risen from $15 million to $32 million.

Moving in the opposite direction is something that agents aren’t wired to deal with.

The agent for the top pick will be vilified, talked about and straight out dissed in agent circles for cutting down the amount of money earned and for caving in. But I think it has to happen for the good of the league and will this year due to Parcells going for the win and making it happen.

If successful, it could shake up the top of the draft board and potentially the entire draft.

This time of the year between the pro days and draft you have to take everything you hear with a grain of salt and not put a lot of credence into it. You could literally throw a penalty flag on the entire league and charge everyone with misinformation.

You hear so many poker-faced bluffs and straight out lies that it’s almost impossible to believe anything a head coach, GM, VP, or team owner says due to the false advertising that goes on at this time of the year.

I am in the camp that believes that Parcells' goal is to pay this year’s top pick far less money than what last year’s top pick earned and he will be successful.

He will achieve that goal along with having the player signed prior to all of us hearing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell say “With the first pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, the Miami Dolphins select…”

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