Are agents the problem?

[OpIv37]

Since the SB, there have been several threads regarding why players stay with the Pats for less money as opposed to leaving for big contracts (like they do on every other team). I can't understand why players who are already millionaires would take $5 million to play for a crappy team when they could get $3 million to play for a contender. Then it hit me- maybe the agents are driving them to greed.

Someone mentioned that Pat Williams' agent isn't very good and tends to overvalue players, leaving them in bad situations. In the Wahle thread, he said he'd like to stay with the Packers but needs to think of this as a "business decision and leave emotion out of it." Ironic how both their agents will make much bigger commissions if these guys go to other teams.

I have to wornder how much influence agents have over their clients- it seems to me agents are a huge factor in the greed that currently drives pro sports. Guys who have done nothing but play this game for their entire lives suddenly stop caring about winning and start caring about money.

[Gunzlingr]

I have often wondered the same thing.

[Jan Reimers]

Isn't that a rhetorical question?

[Michael82]

******* agents are the huge problem. Guys like Rosenhaus, the idiotic Poston brothers, and even Angelo Wright. They are always overvaluing their player and care more about the bucks than anything else.

[ddaryl]

I can't understand why players who are already millionaires would take $5 million to play for a crappy team when they could get $3 million to play for a contender. Then it hit me- maybe the agents are driving them to greed.

I'll tell ya what,

Lets dangle a 5 million $$ stack and a 3 million $$ stack in front of you and lets see how your decision process functions.

2 million a year is a heckuva alotta jack. Its makes a significant difference in your future investments, and lifestyle.

Football players have a small window with a tremendous amount of uncertainty to make there coin. Agents might be steering them, but it probably isn't a hard ship to steer.

[OpIv37]

money can't buy a ring, and if you make $3 million instead of $5 million, it's not like you're gonna starve. Anyone who makes $3 million a year for a decade or so and can't figure out a way to live off of it doesn't deserve the money in the first place.

[BuffaloRanger]

money can't buy a ring, and if you make $3 million instead of $5 million, it's not like you're gonna starve. Anyone who makes $3 million a year for a decade or so and can't figure out a way to live off of it doesn't deserve the money in the first place.

Players stay on the Patriots for under market value because they have won 3 of 4 SBs and can probably win a couple more.

Can you say that about the Bills? Honestly, can you tell a player, if you stay with the team we will definately win a SB, even though we never have and haven't even been in the playoffs in 5 years.

In that case why not go to the team that will pay you more? You have just as much chance of winning it all with that team than the Bills.

[OpIv37]

In that case why not go to the team that will pay you more? You have just as much chance of winning it all with that team than the Bills.

Depends on the team- Vikings, Jets, Bucs- I agree. Browns, 49ers, Cardinals, Dolphins- those franchises have several years before they'll win anything.