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Posted on 03/19/2020 12:57:46 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Funny how he went downhill after signing the big contract. Arthritic knee? I don't think so. He's not the only one. Once the 2nd(big) contract is signed too many of these ballplayers take it and run. The smart ones keep their mouths shut. As an owner I'd never give out big bonus money unless the player was home grown drafted and worked hard for 3-4 years. Injuries, DWI's, don't help.
Rumors say he’ll join Tom Terrific in Tampa.
With millions of dollars and salary cap implications at stake, teams get their own medical verification of any claimed injuries. Teams do not take a player’s word that he is hurt.
Then there’s Eric Swann. Needed knee surgery in October and chose to have it done in December. It made his recovery period too late for the playoffs.
He was due a $10.5 MM roster bonus. Less hit to the cap cutting him than keeping him on.
what
Ha ha ha, how bout that Ezekiel Elliott deal now, Jerry?
Lol, had to read it twice.
Very unlikely. They ran him into the ground. Almost every RB suffers a massive dropoff when they cross the 275 touches in one season line. He crossed that line 3 years running (almost 350 in 2016 and ‘17). Arthritic knees is probably just the start.
Poster child of why one does not give big contracts to RBs.
I don’t know why he’d fake it.
I’d like to see Cooper Kupp catch from Tom Brady for a season.
It's a brutal sport with the shortest careers and the lowest salaries (mainly because the rosters are large), and yet it's the only one that has no guaranteed contracts.
And since young players are forced into a fixed salary structure for the first few years of their careers, the big "second contract bonus" is the first opportunity for them to get paid really well.
I believe you have hit the nail on the head. Safety is an issue so the owners want 18 gam seasons with expanded playoffs.
They are insane. It's completely irresponsible to go beyond 16 games.
I like watching Thursday night games, but I think they should end then, unless they schedule it after a bye week.
There is only so much the human body can take.
According to this guy, the primary motivation of the NFL here is that they want to get the Super Bowl pushed back so it is played on President’s Day weekend every year.
Didn’t the NFL have two bye weeks at one time
I believe the biggest reason they did that was to avoid having playoff games scheduled on the same weekend as the major college bowl games during the weekend of January 1st and 2nd. They added the 18th week to the regular season so the playoffs would start the following weekend.
Why not have a bye week before the playoffs?
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