@taker597 I swear the only time posters on SR generally agree on paying a player is Drew.
Got damn do we have some dumbass fans on that site. If I wasn't lazy I'd bump the MT discussions last year to show all the dumbass people who was saying not to pay him and "our offense can just plug in any player and be just fine!"
Now we getting similar dumbass responses about AK.
These dudes hate seeing nikkas get paid
Right.
Though I do slightly disagree with you about CMC. I think he's special. But sadly he's 'wasting' some of his best years while Carolina rebuilds. Carolina would be wise to limit his workload a bit this year if their season starts off rough so that they don't risk him being worn down by the time they get back to relevance.
But yeah. There's a difference between being pro team and being anti player. I consider myself pro team. In the sense that though there are certain players who I will always root for, I'm a Saints fan at the end of the day and put them over any individual player's success. But you can be pro team and also pro player. I'm all for ANY player getting his. On any team. So when we have guys on our team who are worth big $, I'm all for them getting there's by whatever method they deem necessary.
Sometimes it leads to hard breakups like Ingram or Sproles or even Horn back in the day (). But as pro team as I am, I damn sure didn't criticize any of them at the time for wanting their $. This is a barbaric ass game. Get ya money young kings.
Some are making decent arguments about position value and prioritizing paying guys like Ram and Latt first and I can respect that stance, it's the "Forget AK!" "Sign Fournette!" "He's not that good to want a raise!" "We have Montgomery now anyways!!!" that are just
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Blind, overzealous Stanley Homers 
over there (with a touch of 
)That is why I hardly visit that place these days.
let the season start before you start giving away your trade bait
