"The Patriots treat players like crap"

[Scott12345]

8 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Agree. There's a reason why a lot of these guys, even some of the big moneymakers, wind up broke within a few years of their career ending.

if we made their kind of cash, do you think we’d be dead broke?…totally on them

Edited July 13, 2021 by Scott12345

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Scott12345 said:

What’s the league minimum?

That depends on whether you're talking about veterans, rookies or practice squad players.

You can get a pretty good idea by heading over to Spotrac or Over the Cap and looking at the roster breakdown.

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Scott12345 said:

Cry me a River…if we made their kind of cash, do you think we’d be dead broke?…totally on them

If you'd have handed me a big wad of cash right out of college, I'd probably be broke in short order too.

Hell, most of us probably would have been.

Edited July 13, 2021 by Mr. Scot

[Scott12345]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

That depends on whether you're talking about veterans, rookies or practice squad players.

You can get a pretty good idea by heading over to Spotrac or Over the Cap and looking at the roster breakdown.

Let’s say an 8 yr guy makes $500k a yr?

Pretty good living….

[Scott12345]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

If you'd have handed me a big wad of cash right out of college, I'd probably be broke in short order too.

Hell, most of us probably would have been.

No we wouldn’t 

[Your GFs favorite huddler]

2 minutes ago, Scott12345 said:

$9 million…how old is he?…how many yrs has he played?

 

Fwiw 

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, Scott12345 said:

Let’s say an 8 yr guy makes $500k a yr?

Pretty good living….

But hardly "set for life" money, especially if you've got a family.

2 minutes ago, Scott12345 said:

No we wouldn’t 

You have a lot more faith in college age kids than I do

Hell, plenty of adults don't even have good financial sense.

Edited July 13, 2021 by Mr. Scot

[PandaMan]

19 minutes ago, Scott12345 said:

Let’s say an 8 yr guy makes $500k a yr?

Pretty good living….

“Pretty good living” until you realize financial literacy isn’t taught in schools and a lot of these players have no idea what it’s like having money until their first check clears.  I don’t blame the players, I blame those who failed to teach them how to handle money properly, which a lot of players don’t have growing up.  

[frankw]

The Patriots are garbage but if it's about just trying to feed families all that hate for Ja'Wuan James a few months back looks out of place now.

[micnificent28]

How did cam come into play with this. As much as you guys might be salty at the way things ended he is still my personal favorite panther of all time(I smitty could also go here) and even if he is on the patriots I can't be mad. Seems we immediately crap on players that leave us even if it wasn't his choice.

[ickmule]

Ummm….I really don’t care about the Patriots. Just sayin.  

[ickmule]

2 hours ago, PandaMan said:

“Pretty good living” until you realize financial literacy isn’t taught in schools and a lot of these players have no idea what it’s like having money until their first check clears.  I don’t blame the players, I blame those who failed to teach them how to handle money properly, which a lot of players don’t have growing up.  

So, you blame the parents ? I’m not being a smart ass, it’s a serious question.  

[PandaMan]

2 minutes ago, ickmule said:

So, you blame the parents ? I’m not being a smart ass, it’s a serious question.  

If you are an adult and don’t have any ability to be financially literate, something went wrong along the way. Unfortunately, many of the parents can’t do it either and don’t know how to do it themselves.  I blame the system more than the parents.  Public schools need reform is the main point. 

[WarPanthers89]

Good post….but why is it I post an article about Cam Newton saying his shoulder bothered him since 2016 when he was injured with the Panthers and it gets moved out of this forum, but this post stays?