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Seahawks cut Shaun Alexander 5 years 1 month ago #12017

College Wolf NOW ONLINE Administrator Posts: 24869 Thank you received: 222 Howls: 7	Wow... what a fall from grace. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3361271
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Re:Seahawks cut Shaun Alexander 5 years 1 month ago #12061

TheOldLogo	It's crazy how short the shelf life is for NFL RBs nowadays. If you don't start as a rookie (something that's rare), then you're looking at a realistic full-time starting role for only about four to five years before the team drafts the next young pup. Even then, you have to hope your team isn't a full-on committee style.
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Re:Seahawks cut Shaun Alexander 5 years 1 month ago #12064

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TheOldLogo wrote:

It's crazy how short the shelf life is for NFL RBs nowadays. If you don't start as a rookie (something that's rare), then you're looking at a realistic full-time starting role for only about four to five years before the team drafts the next young pup. Even then, you have to hope your team isn't a full-on committee style.

Well said.

It blows my mind that teams give guys like Shaun Alexander and Edge James these huge contracts when they are 30 years old. Lucky for the NFL teams they can just cut them and not worry about guaranteed contracts like in the NBA...

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Answer: "Because there are no 4's."

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Re:Seahawks cut Shaun Alexander 5 years 1 month ago #12072

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Yeah, there's got to be a happy medium in these contracts one of these days. While the NBA guaranteed contracts are definitely a joke (especially Houston's, Ratliff's, Vinsanity, etc.), I think it's nothing compared to the NFL rookie contracts. Would you even want a #1 pick now? Jamarcus Russell got something like $31 million in guarantees before he even took a snap. In the NBA, for the most part, you have to at least perform before getting their insane guaranteed contract.

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