Posted on 02/25/2020 10:08:35 AM PST by C19fan
Joe Burrow says he won’t pull an Eli Manning (or, for older fans, a John Elway) and refuse to play for the Cincinnati Bengals.
The LSU quarterback’s desire to play for Cincinnati, which holds the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL draft, has been a topic the past couple weeks. It was a topic because Burrow hadn’t clearly stated whether he would be happy to play for the Bengals.
On Tuesday at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, he cleared it up.
Joe Burrow on whether he’d report to Bengals: ‘Yes. Of course.’
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Not so much incompetent as unwilling to pay people enough to attract or keep good players.
I don’t understand how the draft in sports is even legal. Is it because all of those procedures have been negotiated with the players unions in the various sports? How can an NFL team own the rights to a player, when a player has never signed a contract?
I’m sure there are lots of details I am ignorant about.
Cinci is a small market, #37, with regional competition. New England (Boston/Manchester), by comparison is #9, with no regional competition, and pulls in Maine and much of Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well. Hartford-New Haven (#33) alone is bigger than Cincinnati.
If you choose not to sign with a team that drafts you, what is the penalty? I heard you have to sit out a year....
Combination of the NFL getting exemptions from anti-trust laws both in court cases and statutory.
I wonder if Joe will take a pay cut going from LSU to the Bengals?
You raise a good question.
I know baseball at one time enjoyed an antitrust exemption. Draft rights are an agreement between the teams in the league. Players who don’t like the terms are free to seek employment elsewhere. This is a monopoly, but not slavery. No one is forced to play in the NFL.
I seem to recall Elway not wanting to play for Frank Kush, regardless of the team he coached, and electing to head for MLB instead. It seemed personal, in that Kush didn’t have a very good rep as a coach.
From the Bayou Bengals to the Bye Bye Bengals.
He’ll be playing in Charlotte.
The problem with being quarterback for a bad football team is that your life could be shortened by many years due to lack of quality in your offense of line
Too bad “Small Hands” Joe cannot end up in New Orleans. He has already proven he can run their offense!
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