Precisely. There is no transparency, which is part of the problem. All this stuff needs to be out in the open. This is a sport whose success or failure, at least in some measure, is dependent on how teams budget their money.
Except in your example, Delta is paying the Seahawks for the privilege of having their names associated. If Tyler Lockett's company is paying the Seahawks for the right to have his company's name associated, why on earth would that be added to his salary cap number?
they did - and they got squashed.
oh - i dunno - the big bag of free $$$$$$ that he gets with the partnership.
Nope. But I've read other articles on the matter.
You misunderstood what I meant. Only if Tyler is NOT paying the Seahawks a fair market price for the right to have his company's name associated with team should they calculate the financial value for that privilege, or if what he is paying is less than fair market price take the difference between what he's paying and what the market price for it is, then add it to his salary.
To toffee, the problem is come on, just FOCUS on football , life after football can wait till you are done with football. I advocated to trade Russell Wilson in 2020 and 2021 after his non football endeavors, hey I started a trade Wilson thread in 2021, to prove I asked to trade Russ lol, I am seeing the same shyt now with Lockett, he is more into his after football life while still being pay to play football.
The potential for a conflict of interest is something that Pete should be concerned with. If a player has a special financial relationship with the team that other players and coaches on the team don't have, that has the possibility to rub some of his teammates the wrong way. It's no different than Me3 and his special perks.
Seems like a pretty simple short term solution would be to just scroll on by, no? Especially threads titled stuff like "Tyler Lockett explains Seahawks real estate sponsorship.... " But get it. I guess.Nope. But I've read other articles on the matter.
I REALLY don't need to hear anything more from Tyler except that he's ready to play. That's it. I also don't need to know who DK is creeping up on at his wedding. I don't need to know these things. At some point I don't want DK's 4 way, Earl Thomas' ho in the hotel, or Tyler's chastity/real estate ventures in my head. I've got enough problems, and there's only so much room in there
I wanna see him YAC. Or honestly - if you can't play the game, get out. Retire if you're THAT scared of injury.
Yes, football is entertainment. Maybe with the Hollywood strike people are displacing celebrity fan-dom TMZ style on these guys too much.
They are just 25 year olds that make millions, after all.
Is it the end of the world? No. But I got me some Tyler fatigue. That's for sho.
We may not know but you can be sure the league surely does.
Stop trying to be logical, it’s not what we do up in here.
Why would a discount go against the cap?
Because it's compensation with a specific financial value that was given to him for his relationship with the team. It would allow the Seahawks the ability to sign him for less than what he would otherwise have agreed to and an unfair advantage for the Hawks vs. other teams looking to sign him.
Yeah, a little shell game that rich people use to duck having to pay taxes. And, it's more non transparency.
As far as I know, there are no rules. That's what we've been arguing about, that the league needs to regulate this form of compensation. But as @SantaClaraHawk indicated, it's pretty easy to figure out how much a sponsorship is worth, at least in this case. You take whatever amount Windermere paid for the same benefit and add a small amount, i.e. 8% or so, for inflation.
