Julius Peppers Wants Haynesworth Cash

Do people pay $500 a year to sit near your desk and watch you do your job 16-20 times a year? Does Fox give your boss 20-30 million a year so they can televise you doing your job? Do writers and local television crews talk to you daily and write/televise your thoughts for the entire city to read? Did people visit you during high school, write reports about you and suggest universities extend full-ride scholarships to you based on your academic achievements? Do grown men buy shirts with YOUR name on the back and where those shirts to work on fridays - and your boss/company gets a large cut of the profits from those shirts? does a major shoe company want to give you money just to wear their clothing/shoes? do people spend $30-40-50 bucks on concessions when they come to watch you work?

Get real. The only reason someone will pay him X million a year is that he can translate into an increase over that amount. If you could make $30 million a year for your company, they'd certainly pay you far more than 35k a year. The reality - your efforts as an employee do not translate into tens of millions in revenue for your employer.

cute and i've heard it before and no Julius Peppers is not worth a $100 million contract and neither is Haynesworth for that matter; no defensive player in himself is because they are actually not the people the fans are paying to see, the fans pay to see offensive studs as individuals but they are out their viewing the defense as a unit. Your statements are absurd because, no, Peppers himself doesn't translate into those huge profits that his employers make. Having him in the system will be worth the $17 million but if he were to tell Hurney he wanted a $100 million contract he'd be laughed out of the office because he will not in himself bring that much money to the franchise in that amount of time.

soulcity,

People pay to see winners. Nobody shows up to Steeler games expecting high scoring affairs. The Ravens don't sell out because they're known for putting up 30 points a game. Yes the nfl attempts to gear the game toward offense but who made bigger headlines this year for the Steelers - their LBs or their WRs?

The fact is, you're upset that you make 30-something a year. That's your fault. Someone is willing to give Peppers $16 million this year to play a game. Peppers was tied for 6th this season in sacks. Out of 1700 people on pro football teams, Peppers was only outperformed by 4 other people (he tied with Jared Allen for sacks). Very few people can claim to be in the top 1% of employees.

It's absurd to complain about the cash an athlete makes and compare it to your salary. He's part of a group who help generate over $100 million for his company and billions for the parent organization.

and guess what, nothing you've just said refutes anything i stated in the slightest way. people don't go to Ravens or Steelers games expecting high scoring affairs, that is absolutely true, but with the exception of Troy Palomalu (i don't know how to spell it, sue me), the defensive guys for those teams aren't exactly big time idolized as individual players either, they are seen as a the Iron Curtain or whatever the heck the Ravens call their defense and lauded as such. and if you think Peppers enjoys the idolization among us fans that Palomalu does, you're off your nut. Troy is very much a special case as far as how much he is adored in the league by fans for a defensive player.

you said it yourself, he's PART OF A GROUP that helped generate over $100 million. Trust me though, guys like Steve Smith and DeAngelo Williams, those guys as individuals are generating more than their contracts are worth.

Your logic when using those figures is just atrocious. a) By the way your statement is explained, it seems you are arguing that all 1700 people in the NFL play the same position that Peppers does. you say that only 4 people had more sacks than him, so he is therefore in the top 1% of performers out of 1700 people in the NFL. Is this an argument that Peppers is a better player than Larry Fitzgerald or Drew Brees because he had more sacks than they did??? B) Having a the sixth highest amount of sacks in the league doesn't neccessarily make him the 6th best defensive player in the league. There is more to being a good defensive player than being able to pressure the QB. I do believe however, that Pepp is probably the 6th best defensive player in the league, but I'm not clueless enough to reach that conclusion based on logic as faulty as yours. Let's keep this simple for now and say all 32 teams had 2 starting defensive ends, and Pep was the 6th best. What do you know, suddenly being 6th out of 64 isn't nearly as impressive as being 6th out of 1700, and makes him not part of the top 1% and not worth $100 million.

i originally wasn't complaining about Pepp making more than me, I just was poking fun at his agent's quote. He's got a talent that's worth more than my talents are, so he should be paid more, and $17 million is a lot more than I make and it's a fair cost for what he generates in revenue. But Haynesworth will not generate enough to justify that $100 million price tag, everyone knows that and knows the Skins take some ridiculous free agent plunges; Pepp also won't ever produce enough on his own to justify such a price.