{"id":2417,"date":"2024-08-03T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2024-08-03T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:08:22","slug":"nfl-fans-think-troy-aikman-took-a-cruel-shot-at-caleb-williams-while-discussing-his-rookie-contract-on-live-tv-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fans Think Troy Aikman Took A Cruel Shot At Caleb Williams While Discussing His Rookie Contract On Live TV (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0preseason officially kicked off Thursday night with the annual Hall-of-Fame game taking place against the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Bears<\/a>\u00a0and Houston Texans<\/p>\n<p>Even though Williams did not take a snap in the game, it didn\u2019t stop commentators\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/joe-buck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Buck<\/a>\u00a0and Troy Aikman from talking about him.<\/p>\n<p>One topic of conversation was the video that surfaced of undrafted free agent quarterback Tyson Baegant reacting to Caleb Williams\u2019s $22.5 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We got a sneak preview of the Bears &#8220;Hard Knocks&#8221; season, with Caleb Williams detailing his $25.5 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Aikman: Times have changed. Thank you, networks, for some of these signing bonuses the players are now getting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtmDuUk5ij\">pic.twitter.com\/xtmDuUk5ij<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1819193573864063309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a great reaction from Tyson Bagent, who was undrafted out of college when Caleb said how much he got as a bonus,\u201d Buck said in the video.<\/p>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-1\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw-ad-scroll-container pw-hide-in-content-out-of-view\" data-pw-in-article=\"true\">\n<div class=\"pw-ad-container-logo\">\n<p>\u201cRight, having a seizure thinking about it. He was hoping that one day he might be able to make that in his career,\u201d\u00a0Aikman said. \u201cBut times have changed. Thank you networks for some of these signing bonuses the players are now getting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mai-link-exclude has-alt-background-color has-background has-light-background has-xs-padding-top has-xs-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has-xl-margin-top has-xl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"Google News Follow Us\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"follow-us-wrapper has-black-color has-text-color has-sm-font-size\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"incontent-ad-2\" class=\"pw-incontent\" data-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw-ad-scroll-container pw-hide-in-content-out-of-view\" data-pw-in-article=\"true\">\n<div class=\"pw-ad-container-logo\">\n<p>Some believe that Aikman was alluding to the idea that players are getting paid too much compared to his era of football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame networks that been paying him ridiculous money the last 20+ years,\u201d one X user said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-contracts-have-heavily-inflated-since-troy-aikman-was-in-the-nfl\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contracts Have Heavily Inflated Since Troy Aikman Was in the NFL<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout his 12-year playing career, Aikman earned $55.5 million, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/player\/earnings\/_\/id\/15925\/troy-aikman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotrac<\/a>. When Aikman was drafted in 1989 as the first overall pick, his signing bonus was just $2.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s era, that price tag would be a steal for even a mid-tier quarterback, much less a six-time Pro Bowler and Hall-of-Famer.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Jordan Love signed a contract extension with the Green Bay Packers, earning him $55 million a year, matching what Aikman made in his entire career. That extension tied him for third as the highest-paid player in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0NFL\u00a0preseason officially kicked off Thursday night with the annual Hall-of-Fame game taking place against the\u00a0Chicago Bears\u00a0and Houston Texans Even though Williams did not take a snap in the game, it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}