The Solution to Running Back Pay
The Domonique Foxworth Show
ESPN
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Off top running back pay is a problem and I got the solution play the music |
| 0:13.0 | This is the Dominique Fox worth show |
| 0:16.2 | All right, Charlie. I know it sounds kind of like a fake tease |
| 0:20.4 | But I actually spent some time thinking about this and I think I honestly have a perfect solution |
| 0:25.6 | For the issue with running back so for those who don't know it's been ongoing for |
| 0:30.8 | Several years now probably 10 plus years the game moves away from running backs |
| 0:35.6 | Uh being as important. It's easier to replace running backs. They get wear and tear so what ends up happening is |
| 0:40.9 | Running backs don't get big contracts. It's in the news a lot now because the sake one Josh Jacobs |
| 0:46.7 | We saw it with um Derek Henry and Christian McCaffrey which their value is not fully |
| 0:52.4 | uh reached or paid |
| 0:54.4 | Because of the market for running backs. You can see that the salaries have climbed for every position |
| 1:01.0 | In all the football except for running backs. They are moving at a slower pace |
| 1:04.5 | And I think even the franchise number might be lower |
| 1:06.8 | It's gone down to 2015 which is absurd |
| 1:10.3 | Considering the way the cap has grown |
| 1:12.5 | So how do you solve this problem you ask |
| 1:15.6 | You didn't ask that but I know you were thinking it. I am all right, so |
| 1:20.0 | There's a pool of money that I don't think many people know about called the performance |
| 1:24.1 | Base pay pool. I had never heard of this. Yeah, until 20 minutes. Yeah |
| 1:28.8 | So performance based pay pool is uh lump sum of money that the league has set aside to compensate players who have |
| 1:36.4 | I'll perform their contract and what tends to happen is it's a player who's a late-round draft pick or something |
| 1:42.2 | It's a bunch of players who are late-round draft picks who ends up playing a lot of downs and they end up getting big checks |
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