If Caleb is anywhere near what the Bears fans think he will be, his next contract will be a nightmare. Hell I think he’s gonna be Kyler Murray 2.0 and gonna want half a billion.
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And he wears dresses… see you tomorrow. Lol my suspension is coming… but he does wear dresses 
League minimum is $795k this year. Minimum for a 3 year vet is over $1 million.
How many years does it take for your average person to eclipse $1 million in total salary?
How many people are cheering for the average person and paying advertisers to watch us do our jobs?
Bears fans won’t like it when he starts taking estrogen.
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Pat McAfee reporting he hasnt signed yet. Trying to get rid of the franchise tag ability down the road.
With 1st rounders having 5th year options… I think the franchise tag should be tossed on them. You can tag a twice too. So that would mean a team can control the player for 7 years without free agency. It’s too long looking at how short most careers are.
That is something for the next CBA.
Right now I’m not negotiating that away for some unproven rookie.
The QB 5th year option is not chump change. This year it was over $24M for Trevor Lawrence.
The Franchise tag will be well over $50M for QB’s next year and likely over $60M in 6 years when the Bears would have to Tag Williams.
Just sign the contract and get in to camp and show what you are worth before you start asking for special consideration.
If that’s the case… well then who cares. Tag away.
Hopefully Caleb blows and they trade him by year 4…just like Fields 
https://x.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1813688967029748213?t=ldYKNh0NOqxk_X4hq0vI9Q&s=19
Never thought anything could make me dislike a Bears QB more than I already do…and then I read this nonsense. He sounds like a massive douchebag.
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And of course the Lions got stuck with the last of the 1st overall inflated salaries
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So many warning signs with Caleb. Jesus Christ how about you come in and get your 40 million guaranteed and win some football games. Dude is a diva and hasn’t even played a down yet. Unreal.
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Yes, I’ve been saying this for awhile. While also expanding roster sizes. For it to make a real difference, the min salary has to go up ALOT though…maybe 50 - 100%
Want to start out with i understand this is more complex and that there are beliefs some have around what these athletes make… with that said i do think when focusing on the nfl a cap based allocation to create the minimum would be more positive to the overall competitive balance and the veterans in the game.
Do something like half or third of total cap divided by in season roster size.
So 1.6M to 2.4M and it scales with the salary cap. In todays cap that means that the team still has between 160M to 127M in cap space to sign their players above minimum.
I feel like that is a better way to redistribute to the lower level veterans while not creating a competitve disadvantage the way a max salary approach does.
Regardless, if people want to argue about football players making this money (seeing it in a few threads) i dont know how to make you happy. We could just let the increased revenue do to the 32 billionares or let the players reap the rewards.
Saying soldiers, teachers, etc deserve more i agree but its really an unrelated conversation when you look at where the revenue is being generated and distributed.
Think he has signed it now. Nothing with this dude will ever be easy.
Agree - football generates insane amounts of money. Not many choices as to where it goes … owners, players, staff, charity, past players/benefits, research. But mainly owners and players, and the same people that cringe at NFL players vs. teachers should cringe more at owners vs. teachers. This is a totally different discussion versus how you cut the pie between players.
Agree with you on pretty much everything. A significantly higher minimum salary SHOULD make the gap between minimum players and the highly paid QB’s and receivers less. And make it harder to field a competitive team if your going to throw insane dollars at your top 1 or 2 players.
But its hard to change market forces. Some owners and GM’s will likely still pay top dollar to secure who they believe to be the player or two that puts them over the top. But it will be harder to pay the next tier if more money goes to the minimum vets.
There might be some unintended consequences. Maybe it will shorten careers because presently the minimum salary is tied to years of service, so you could lower your salary costs by simply turning over the players entering their second contract with newly drafted players.
There’s alot of moving parts but at the end of the day I think a minimum salary would work better than an NBA-type max salary scheme.
I want it all, I want it now, and I don’t want to pay my fair share in taxes.
1% trying to cheat the local poor out of their assistance…or already rich retired public servants collecting fat pensions…sounds like someone those new IRS agents should have their eye on…
Wasn’t there a report before the draft that he wanted something like part ownership of the team that drafted him too. I swear I remember that.
It was his dad, I believe. And the NFL quickly kaboshed that, because it’s not allowed.
Still. The flags are there. Wants his contract with no agent, wants all of his SB up front, wants to find ways to give the middle figure to the IRS, etc.
Just take your money and play ball man. If you’re everything you think you are, you’re going to be just fine in the long run.
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