This business will spit you out in a cold way. The Jaguars have done nothing to help MJD on offense over the years anyways, so the franchise gets no free pass. They own the U. Congress, soon the Senate and the Presidential office.
Welcome our new America! Get use to it. This is the problem with the NFL. Some owners give in and pay out the money while others stick to their guns and make a player honor his contract. Agents give bad or ill advised advice looking to get their cut while they can. Shut up and play! Worry about your contract next year.
The Jaguars were not winning the Super Bowl with you and they are not winning the Super Bowl without you. Most likely not even close to a playoff team either way. Just ask Soroush Sabzi. Hopefully he holds out for two years. Then some team signs him for a lot less money than he was suppose to earn those two years. Tries to use his education to get a job and finally learns what a REAL job is like. New England needs a work horse. Won trophies with Corey dillon and antwain smith running the ball 20plus times a game.
Fragile backs Ridley woodhead and vereen are not the answer. Make the defense keep at least 7 in the box and Tom and company could get even nastier. Offer up a 2 and 4th rounder and give mjd a 3 yr 21 mil. That should keep him happy and mr. Kraft can afford it if he really wants another ring or two before Brady hangs em up. I was just thinking if I owned an NFL team in a small market, say Jacksonville, and wanted to move to a bigger market that wants a team, say Los Angeles, I would think a good way to go about doing that is to probably get rid of the face of the franchise who happens to be the most productive member.
For four years. I doubt its the money, hes never been a greedy guy. MoJo was always screaming for more carries the whole time he was in Jax. He would throw a fit if he was subbed, even late in a game that was already decided. So they gave him the ball a lot, he picked up a lot of yardage, and now he is using that to try to leverage a new contract. There are quite a few players around the league who could get the same production as a featured back on a run first team who never leaves the game.
It was the best case scenario for MJD in Jacksonville last season. The passing game was in flux, his backup Rashad Jennings was IRed for the season, and by mid point his pursuit of the rushing title was the sole focus of the offense.
You signed the contract and you have no intention to honor it, So that tells me your word means nothing and i stay away from people like that. I believe MJD is worth more money and should be given a new contract. Problem is, the timing is bad. The Jags can go with what the have this season and next year make it a priority to replace him. Homers, MJD is one of the best in the game at any position. And he surely wont be replaced by Jennings. Enjoy your fish an chips, and then LA.
Not many franchises would do that. MJD went about this the wrong way. This was before he had proven anything at all.
The Jaguars took a chance and paid an unproven RB top three money. Sad part isof how disappointedIhappening. He signed a contract. What the hell was the point of all this? MJD doesn't get any additional money, and he loses carries early in the season which will just hurt him with his next contract negotiation. Meanwhile, the Jaguars won't get one of their best players at full strength until Week 2 or 3. This helped nobody. Training camp for established vets is just a lot of pain with no reward.
Particularly for running backs. Who wouldn't want to skip that morass? Brett Favre tried to do it every year, and no one ever gave him crap. The idea that he's going to lose bargaining position because he gets fewer carries in week 1 if that even happens Um, people gave Favre crap for it every year. But more importantly, how can anybody say his holdout doesn't matter because he's a vet?
He got his playbook today. New coach, new offensive coordinator. This is a lot more than knowing where to run with the football something he won't need much work getting up to speed on. He's got to learn routes and pass blocking assignments. If it was pointless, and only an injury risk, they wouldn't push vets in training camp. It helped ownership. Jones-Drew lost a bunch of money due to fines and made himself look like a fool. Less likely to earn any kind of extension, and the team is rebuilding anyway, Jones-Drew can't be part of their long-term plans.
That's not a union power question, though. The non-guaranteed contract problem continues to exist, but that's a matter to be settled in collective bargaining between the union and the owners--if the players hadn't wanted to agree to that, they didn't have to and if they caved to the pressure to do so, well Holding out is just a player saying "I signed a contract to do X, Y, and Z, but I'm just going to refuse to do it in the hope you'd rather bribe me to come back instead of enforcing it.
There's nothing in the CBA that outlaws guaranteed contacts. In fact, Adam Vinatieri had a guaranteed contract at one point when he was with NE. Players are free to negotiate guaranteed contracts. They just don't want the lower pay commensurate with a guaranteed contract -- they'd rather take the higher pay and roll the dice on not getting cut. Which is probably not a bad strategy most of the time.
You've made this point before. Players can't negotiate freely until they're UFAs which for RBs often doesn't happen until their career is almost over , and even then they're subject to the franchise tag. Ergo any player, even the lowliest rookie, can get negotiate a fully-guaranteed contract. Well, it'll certainly be less than what they could get on a non-guaranteed contract, which is as it should be a guaranteed contract is economically equivalent to a non-guaranteed contract plus insurance, and insurance ain't free nor should it be.
And is that guaranteed contract size less than what union shills and player apologists like yourself think it "should" be?
Apparently so. No, they won't, because they can't. There's a salary minimum. They have to hit that. And, in fact, most rookies are at the salary minimum, plus some small signing bonus. Teams would never negotiate a fully-guaranteed contract with those rookies, because on average, it's more money than they pay those rookies. Maybe they might guarantee the 1st year, but only for rookies that are nearly guaranteed to make the team The only way most teams would do a minimum salary guaranteed contract is if it were for a short frame - like, 3 years or less - or if the player in question were good enough that the minimum salary is a big drop from market value.
But the minimum salary is pretty high for vets, and in fact, most teams wouldn't guarantee the contract for lower-tier vets because they get a cap savings at the minimum salary with little guaranteed money - a fully-guaranteed multi-year contract would invalidate the discount. It's not as easy as you think it is, and it's really hard for running backs, where the rookie contract is such a huge percentage of the player's useful career.
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