I can't criticize Donovan McNabb for making as much money as he can, but I have to take my hat off to Tom Brady for being the ultimate team player.
He is making on $5 million dollars in base salary this season. He could make as much as $8 million dollars total if he achieves his incentives.
His former backup, Matt Cassel will make over $15 million this year in Kansas City. McNabb will make $24.5 million over the next two years.
Brady has led his team to four Super Bowls and won three of them, yet he is willing to not be the highest paid player in the game.
If he demanded that the Patriots rip up his contract and make him the highest paid player in the game, there's no way they could refuse.
Here's what Brady had to say about his contract.
“To be the highest-paid, or anything like that, is not going to make me feel any better,” Brady told Peter King after signing his deal in 2005. “That’s not what makes me happy. In this game, the more one player gets, the more he takes away from what others can get. Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? … That million might be more important to the team.”
