They were discussing Cousins guaranteed contract and how those contracts don't motivate a player. Someone brought up that 20% of football players don't even like the game and are only in it for the money. Once that's guaranteed, there's no incentive to play hard.
It got me thinking about the old days when they made more money in the post season than the regular season so being on a winning team was important. Now, most players, especially the highly paid ones only earn a small fraction per game of their regular season salary in the post season.
Players on the Super Bowl winning team got $112,000 each, while the losers got $56,000 each.