BigRedMO said:
40 year if you mean a shot as in a shot at being the back up and riding the bench you are right. He will get that shot. A team does not pay Warner what they are paying him to ride the bench on opening day. It did not happen in NY even though they had a franchise QB in Manning.
Your reference to Mccown by first name indiactes to me that you feel some kind of personal relationship. They are all just players to me and I dont feel any personal attachment to any of them.. Maybe that partly explains the difference betwen our posts.
But I will remember this discussion come September. If I am right (the odds are in my favor) and you are wrong and a man of honor then you can just admit I was right and you were wrong. If you are not a man of honor you will come up with excuses of why Mccown is really better but circumstances conspired against him.
Back to the revenue issue though. If you feel like money is not a problem for Bidwill answer me these questions:
Why have the Cards been significantly under the cap during the season in recent years even though thay had needs and players were out there? There no name WR corps a few years ago after Sanders and Moore were gone leaps to mind. The team was playing with WRs that had no NFL experience when there were veterans available.
Why are the Cards playing a home game in Mexico City? Is it that Bidwill NEEDS the revenue of 100,000 fans versus 30,000? So he hamstrung his team with a realistic chance to make the playoffs with one less homegame for the revenue? One game likely will be the difference. seems to me that a guy that would do that really NEEDS the revenue.
Why does Bidwill want a new stadium? Does he need the added revenue from the luxury boxes and hopes for more than 30,000 showing up adding more revenue. Other teams who average 60,000 fans get twice the revenue that Bidwill is getting from ticket sales assuming roughly equivalent ticket prices. It is true TV revenue is a bigger piece of the puzzle. But still ticket revenue is important.
Why are the Cards the least valuable NFL franchise? It is more than just win/loss record. The Redskins are the most valuable but have done nothing in years. Anybody with the money to buy a team would be so full of himself to think he could turn around any team by his personal actions. Once again look at The Redskins owner's ego in this regard. Notwithstanding the stadium are the Cardinals under capitalized? If so any investor would know that if they bought the Cards they would have to put in a lot of money to compensate for the undercapitalization. Does that explain why they are worth so little compared to other teams?
BRM, I call everyone by the part of the name I like the best. Haven't you called AQ Quan before? Everyone else has. I've never met the kid, but I like his attitude. Besides that, he's a Cards player and all of the players have my respect, even the guys at the bottom of the pile.
As far as the Bidwill's and money go, I keep telling you that you are living in the past tense. They don't have the capital a lot of the NFL teams have available, but it hasn't seemed to slow them down the past two years. The day the stadium was finalized, they started spending money like I've never seen before and they are doing it in a controlled and planned way. I have a feeling that if AZ. had kept their promise to Mr. B, this would have happened a long time ago.
I credit RG and Mike B. for the turnaround in attitude and the way the money is being handled. They hired DG and are using him to increase the skill level of this team.
Here are some team expenditures:
New England Patriots
Year Median salary Total Payroll
2004 $ 660,300 $ 76,999,180
2003 $ 707,650 $ 82,128,250
2002 $ 540,300 $ 46,194,915
2001 $ 535,500 $ 65,793,825
2000 $ 476,800 $ 51,344,300
Arizona Cardinals
Year Median salary Total Payroll
2004 $ 621,424 $ 78,961,345
2003 $ 652,800 $ 81,034,928
2002 $ 383,165 $ 66,967,535
2001 $ 512,000 $ 74,891,809
2000 $ 455,050 $ 58,610,500
Dallas Cowboys
Year Median salary Total Payroll
2004 $ 626,234 $ 65,409,479
2003 $ 454,000 $ 81,042,307
2002 $ 317,000 $ 74,138,471
2001 $ 320,560 $ 48,469,232
2000 $ 441,300 $ 50,104,200
Green Bay Packers
Year Median salary Total Payroll
2004 $ 614,700 $ 80,383,682
2003 $ 572,900 $ 77,230,121
2002 $ 469,160 $ 49,980,056
2001 $ 514,520 $ 68,979,435
2000 $ 434,400 $ 56,148,300