Rookie pay structure?!? What about QBs???

CREATING ANARCHY IN DC LIKE IT'S JANUARY 2001

Ooooo, sorry to those rooting for the red instead of the blue every 4 years but had to find a catchy title somehow. Well, DC really hasn't been in complete ruins yet my friends not yet. However, John Riggins' youtube page and WTOP radio show have certainly created minions upon minions; so much so that former Redskins play-by-play man Frank Herzog joined in the act. Meanwhile, Dan Steinberg, Mike Wise, Scott Van Pelt, Mark Schlereth, Steve Young, Michael Wilbon and others are all preaching the truth on their online articles, podcasts, pregame shows and sportscenter cameos about it. If only Matt "I'm sick of people blaming the front office" Millen could join in the fun.

Now here we are, the front office have banned signs at FedEx Field.The response: post these markered billboards across all of DELMARVA. Now we fans are plotting what to do for the next three weeks when Denver comes to town. And that plot better be a good one. Maybe they can ask Cleveland Browns fans what they are doing to voice their rage. But this is the moment of the Redskins Franchise under Dan Snyder. All redskins fans must blackout every single home game. All Redskins fans must no longer tailgate in the surrounding parking lot in Landover. And we Redskins fans must no longer buy andy merchandise. I mean, who has pride wearing a DeAngelo Hall jersey anyway?

But we redskins fans must achieve every single task. The front office must listen to us if we and only we achieve all these tasks. And most importantly, the NFL must recognize and change Snyder and Cerrato's ways if we and only we achieve these tasks. This is our moment redskins fans. Take the football team back to it's rightful place!!!

IF ONLY THERE WAS A QUARTERBACK PAY STRUCTURE

In sports salaries, there are so many stereotypical numbers for certain types of players. The superstar basketball player gets over $15 million/year, while the uber-elite get over $20 million/year. The average starting goaltender gets over $5 million/year and the go-to goalscorer gets over $7 million/year. And in football, the starting quarterback must get a 5+ year/$50+ million contract these days.

Now, for some that may be considered fair. But in basketball, the rookie pay structure already exists, so there is more information for GMs for star players to be discovered and given the right contracts. In Hockey, $7 million is close to every other salary on the roster considering how chokingly tight the hard salary cap is($57 million for 23 players and expected to drop).

Now we get to football. These days $10 million a year is always given to the franchise quarterback, top 5 level running back and franchise defensive star. However, it is almost impossible to rate whether or not a quarterback can last five years being worth that contract. Here is the current list of players that have performed to that level ALL of the last five years(including this year).

Ben Roethlisberger
Peyton Manning
Phillip Rivers
Drew Brees
Donovan McNabb

Mind you that this excludes players like Tom Brady because of injury and players like Brett Favre because they are on their last legs. This list just goes to show how unbelievably high-risk high-reward the position is. This is also why I am so 50-50 about the redskins picking a quarterback in the upcoming NFL draft or going for the trade of the century to get two first rounders(the next franchise left tackle and RB/KR/answer to DeShawn Jackson and Percy Harvin/replacement for Clinton Portis...CJ Spiller being the picks). So why fork over so much money for them?

And this is not for my Redskins who must give this money to their top ten draft pick QB(Sam Bradford, St. Jimmy Clausen, Tim "Forest Gump" Tebow, etc.) or Jason Cambpell to create any form of stability in the organization. What about Detroit wasting $6 million/year with Joey Harrington in the early 2000s and risking $12.5 million on Matthew Stafford? What about New York Jets is to Mark Sanchez what the Cleveland Cavaliers is to LeBron James: paying him like he's the savior of the city while mortgaging the future? What about Carolina realizing what a complete mistake it was to resign Jake Delhomme? What about Cleveland who is spending $13 million a year for two second string players without doing their research and putting it on a guaranteed first stringer with one-year wonder Derek Anderson and the Adam Morrison of football in Brady Quinn(while Tim Tebow is obviously the JJ Reddick)?

It boggles the mind how many teams get screwed over paying too much money on such mediocre QBs that they can't get themselves out of it. Come on NFL, let this be on the agenda for the next CBA!!!

THE LIST
The Top 5 things Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato will ban next

1. Your ability to leave FedEx Field-this also includes people that have the gumption to spend all of Sunday tailgating and watching the entirety of a football game

2. Your ability to breath when you enter the stadium-you can't even cheer, because you may be doing for the over team

3. Your ability to enter the stadium without a replica redskins jersey

4. Your ability to report about a redskins loss

5. The ability to use the NFL draft-wait...they have already made this rule ten years ago.

Q&A

Well, the only comment made in last week's post was that of a private one, so unlike Mr. Snyder, I will let my viewer voice his responses in a way he sees fit.

CONCLUSION

Boy, that is a ton of punk music I just bursted out today. Until then with tunes of Rise Against stuck in my head...have a Happy Halloween and stay classy DC.

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