 But you don't have to carry your team. You can have better teammates. Do you know how much fun it would be to play for the Dodgers or the Phillies these days? And how awful it would be to play for a bottom-end team in all those sports? Football's different, especially if you're in the trenches or you're a linebacker or you're a running back. Austin Eckler, bro, get your money. Play wherever you got to play. You're a smaller athlete. You take a beating. Take your money.