my point exactly! try to bust up a well run BUSINESS with stupidity and you will lose. Punk tried to be an exception to the rule. I really like the rookie minimum idea, hey the vets have one, it truely has merits and would work well with the current cap system.
There will be a rookie cap in 2011 and the veterans won’t mind since it means more $$$ for them and less for the guys who are signing big contracts without having played a down in the NFL.
The salary cap in 2002 was $71 million, This year it’s $127 million. That’s an 80% increase in 7 years and well past the rate of inflation. No one save for some unproven rookie is going to want to buck that system