It hit me yesterday when I was sitting in a clubhouse and I look up and I see my new best friend Adam Schaefter, my golfing buddy, Adam Schaefter.

I spent four and a half hours in a cart with the other day and we didn't talk football once. It was amazing.

But so I look up and I see him on the TV and he is talking about the T.J. Watt contract.

And then I hear the details of it. $41 million a year, the highest paid non-quarterback.

And I know that T.J. Watt's going to keep trying and he's going to be great, and he's guy cares about what he's doing.

But we're getting to a point now where the expectation that we have for these athletes, caring as much as we care, has gone so far down with the money that they're making that I think maybe two, three years from now, it's going to be a real problem.

I already think it's a problem.

But it's going to get even worse. Now, I don't want to come across to some sort of sour

grapes person. I'm not at all. These leagues are making so much money. The owners are making so much

money. The players are benefiting from that. When you're the best in the world, it's something

this popular. You're going to get paid. But when I'm sitting here in the summer and all I see is Janice Anta Coupo on his yacht,

this guy on that yacht, and these guys doing all this stuff and they're posting all

about it and T.J. Watt getting 41. Think about a defensive end. Edge Rush are getting

$41 million a year, three years ago, that seemed unheard of.

And to think that all of us, and me and you and Fleegs and C-Lo and all the people that call here,

that care so much about the wins and losses of these teams, to expect that these guys are going to continue to care as much as we do is a force. Because they're not. I think it's the makeup of the guy. I mean, you can even go back as far as when I was covering the Giants and the Jets, even the Nets back in the day in 2001. There are some guys, I think they could make $400 million a year. They just have it in them. They have that competitive... What percentage do you think of those guys are left?

So that's where I was going to go, because then you've also got the guys that do it because it's a job and don't really... They don't take it home with them. I think they brush off the losses very... Maybe that's a good thing for some. And then you've got a lot of guys that fall in the middle. then you bring into the mix something we've discussed too in that you're finding out that these guys now, thanks to things like YouTube, can have very nice, easy, fun, post-playing careers that doesn't take up a whole hell of a lot of time either. I mean, while Shannon Sharp and Ocho Sinko grind, and they do it, they do it, they're out there every night doing it, so I do give them the credit for that. But you've got all these like podcast shows now, well, the Kelsey's are making $100 million. I think they got for their $100 million for a, for a YouTube show. You know, there's different ways to make money and it's not

all about what they're doing on the field taking it back to what you're talking about though

I don't know the answer to that I mean you have to know the makeup of the man to know how motivated

they're going to be clearly they take care of themselves in the off season their body is their

business but in terms of the desire

and maybe checking out from time to time, I don't know. You have to really know the person.

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