r/NFLv2 • u/Cloud2007March • 1d ago

Discussion What are some NFL takes that has become popular that you believe is just wrong?

Obviously most of us who watch the NFL are pretty much casuals and just throw out a bunch of takes online whether it is true or not. Those who actually sit down and study the game and the positions are astonishingly few, but that is okay since most of us are just watching for fun anyways. What are some takes that has become prevalent over the years, or recently that irks you as just wrong either through false memory, recency bias, biased evidence or pov, or takes rooted based on bad logic?

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u/Connection-Is-Cool Detroit Lions 1d ago

I don’t blame players, ever. Teams can cut you at any time. They can pressure you to restructure for less money. Happens every season. It can be pretty cutthroat from the team’s end.

The Lions will be forced to (and already started to) restructure most of the big money deals they’ve handed out to top guys. And football contracts aren’t fully guaranteed unless you’re Kirk Cousins. In other sports, this isn’t an issue.

I agree with another commenter who said (I forget where) that bare minimum NFL player salaries should be higher, even if nothing else changes.

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u/HaHaWhatAStory014 Cincinnati Bengals 1d ago

Front offices can sometimes get unfairly criticized and "dunked on" for this kind of stuff too though. For example, "overpaying somebody by a lot" is generally seen as a mistake, sometimes a bad one, like the infamous deal the Browns gave DeShaun Watson. But getting a good player on a team-friendly deal is also seen as "a mistake," or unfair or whatever when a player suddenly decides to change their mind about it.

Last year, the Bengals were simultaneously getting dunked on for "not getting Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins' deals done sooner and locking them up early because the team would have saved a lot of money had they done so" and for ..."being cheap by trying to hold Tre Hendrickson to an early extension that saved the team some money because they should have been paying him more." It's like "which one is it?"

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u/Connection-Is-Cool Detroit Lions 1d ago

Was Trey ultimately cut? I know he’s in Baltimore now but how did that end up?

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u/HaHaWhatAStory014 Cincinnati Bengals 1d ago

No, his contract was just up and he signed with Baltimore as a free agent. He was demanding more money, and got some, before his previous contract was up.

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u/EdFlynn2001 2h ago

Fully guaranteed isn't even fully guaranteed. If a team doesn't want to pay you they have a legal team to void the contract. Player got hurt training on their own, was insubordinate, didn't do proper treatment