The Jets didn’t insure Aaron Rodgers, costing them cap savings. The Eagles and 49ers used insurance to help achieve contender status.

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    2 months ago

    You got to wonder why these insurance companies are insuring some of these people. I mean they won’t insure house in Florida and California, but they’ll insure people that smash their heads into other people for a living?

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      2 months ago

      It’s because the premiums are stupid high. The article mentioned somewhere in the neighborhood of $1m to $4m on insuring $22m of a contract.

      Many of these owners are billionaires, too. They wouldn’t bother insuring if it weren’t for the salary cap. Being able to get that money off the cap is actually more important than getting the money back.