Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
Louis Riddick on ESPN today said that as the Chiefs spent a week in Las Vegas during the Super Bowl practicing in the Raiders facility, the players were floored at how much better it was than the Chiefs practice facility… which Riddick described as high school caliber.
Louis Riddick is very close with Andy/Veach so you know he is not just speaking off the cuff with those comments.
Yeah i don't think those guys are going to equate professional treatment with being a pussy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
Louis Riddick on ESPN today said that as the Chiefs spent a week in Las Vegas during the Super Bowl practicing in the Raiders facility, the players were floored at how much better it was than the Chiefs practice facility… which Riddick described as high school caliber.
Louis Riddick is very close with Andy/Veach so you know he is not just speaking off the cuff with those comments.
Apparently it's a running joke an NFL guy, Jason Cole, was on a show I heard driving home from work and he said "oh I've been there those facilities are hot garbage" [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Apparently it's a running joke an NFL guy, Jason Cole, was on a show I heard driving home from work and he said "oh I've been there those facilities are hot garbage"
If I was this guy I'd worry more about the hot garbage he is shoveling down his gullet.
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Saw the Patriots get destroyed bc some teams have daycare while they don’t. Wtf. Why the hell does an NFL team need to provide daycare to athletes making 500k minimum?
If some have it and others don’t, is it not fair to grade those who don’t less favorably?
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
According to Mitchell Schwartz and Geoff Schwartz the facilities almost never comes into play. Imagine the Raiders when they played in Oakland trying to get FA players with their facility situation.
He said something like this in order-
$$
$$
Winning Franchise
Coaching
Friends on the team
City
That’s just his opinion, though.
I’d bet the package of amenities and facilities does play a factor into many players’ decision making. [Reply]
The wild thing about the NFLPA is how they do the annual piss and moan about artificial turf, but when we have the NFL combine and upcoming free agency, the teams that play on turf are never described as a place a player would not want to play for because their home field playing surface. [Reply]
You're telling me someone is turning down more money over a fucking practice facility ��
They have no control where they are drafted and FA decisions are based on how much money they get....PERIOD. I've also never heard of a trade blocked over it either :-) "home town discounts " and "caring about practice facilities " simply don't exist in any imactful way [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni:
You're telling me someone is turning down more money over a fucking practice facility ��
They have no control where they are drafted and FA decisions are based on how much money they get....PERIOD. I've also never heard of a trade blocked over it either :-) "home town discounts " and "caring about practice facilities " simply don't exist in any imactful way
One of the most frustrating things we learned in hiring attorneys and managers (theoretically people who would be good big picture thinkers) was that the bottom line didn't matter much to most people.
They cared about salary.
Car, bonuses, annual profit distributions, gold plated healthcare - didn't matter. We were losing folks to higher salaries that actually offered less total compensation over a 12 month timeline.
So we stopped. Just said 'screw it - let them come to us after a couple years and ask for some of that stuff. If it's salary that gets them to yes, change the salary and make the rest of it worse...'
It ended up 1-2% cheaper for us to just pay higher salaries with lesser benefits. And in so doing, we had better success getting people hired. It just wasn't worth the headache to swim upstream anymore so we didn't.
The vast vast VAST majority of people make that choice on salary. The rest of it is something that may impact job satisfaction and retention later on down the road. But to get people in the door, it was salary that mattered and I don't suspect football players are much different. [Reply]
