Bad Economy hits the Redskins

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

How exactly are NFL teams feeling the crunch of the economy? I'm not buying it. Just wait and see how much they spend in free agency, meanwhile some guy who works at the stadium is out on the street. F'd up.

Why is it F'd up? They can employ whoever they want can't they? If they offered you 5 mil to play QB would tell them "Nah, I wouldn't be any good and it'd be F'ed up that you were paying me a bunch of money to do a bad job when the guy sitting in the cube next door could do the same as me." They are a busniess and should be able to hire and fire who they want shouldn't they? If they don't need the employee why continue to employ them? Did Snyder turn them into a charitable group and I didn't know it?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Why is it F'd up? They can employ whoever they want can't they? If they offered you 5 mil to play QB would tell them "Nah, I wouldn't be any good and it'd be F'ed up that you were paying me a bunch of money to do a bad job when the guy sitting in the cube next door could do the same as me." They are a busniess and should be able to hire and fire who they want shouldn't they? If they don't need the employee why continue to employ them? Did Snyder turn them into a charitable group and I didn't know it?

Just don't use the the economy as an excuse. It's a laughable one the minute they sign their first big ticket free agent to a multi-million dollar deal. And we're supposed to believe Joe Schmoe's $30k a year salary is putting them in a bind? Please.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Just don't use the the economy as an excuse. It's a laughable one the minute they sign their first big ticket free agent to a multi-million dollar deal. And we're supposed to believe Joe Schmoe's $30k a year salary is putting them in a bind? Please.

Well, salary floor. I understand what you are saying though, but cutting costs can only be done to a certain degree with the million dollar players on the field.

The realities of revenue sharing means that the Redskins have to cut costs even if they don't see a downturn in revenue, simply because they'll owe more to other franchises who are being more directly affected.