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Steve Silton

Oct 21, 2026

4:01
those are the salaries that make the headlines.
4:03
Yeah.
4:03
I mean, the salaries are, right, so you've got, you know, you've got...
4:07
You know, most players are making multiple millions of dollars and teams are spending, you know, well upwards of 200 million.
4:14
And the floor tends to be about 15 or 20% below the cap.
4:19
So there's not a huge disparity between the teams that are playing their players the most and the teams that are playing their players the least.
4:28
What that avoids is a team attempting to tank in order to stockpile draft picks and essentially, you know, not lose as much money on down years, though the reality is the NFL, most teams make money.
8:23
If the owners get what they want, I can imagine a lot of top players saying, well, that's going to mean we get less.

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