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I'd like to order one Malik Jackson and a side of fries, please!
He has no leverage. Zero. None. Nada.He’s made his demands clear, he’s under no obligation to do anything other than facilitate a potential trade. Unless the organization wants to come to him and make things right, he’s likely just going to keep being elite.
No need to meet with anyone, it doesn’t suck for him, he has an immense amount of leverage, and will likely be in a position where the team can come to him, or attempt to win without him.
Good luck to the Texans on that, but I don’t operate under the false pretense that he’s not in a very advantageous position.
The remarkably dumb cliches about “selfishness,” “shut up and play,” and the other tropes we don’t assign to Carson Wentz are going to persist regardless.
I just dont understand how a player who signed a 150 million!! contract by himself five months ago, becomes a victim now. Some of you are really ridiculous
Maybe that in life you can not only get but also give something ?What does him signing that contract have to do with anything?
He has no leverage. Zero. None. Nada.
He can sit out all he wants, his contract will still be there and he won’t get paid.
Maybe that in life you can not only get but also give something ?
A company invested 150 millions in their asset and that asset is set for life. Even if his form slips and he becomes a bad player or if he gets a career ending injury, he still gets most of the money. While the team would be in a financial cap hell for years. In this case, its completely rational to expect a person to follow his contract at least in the first year when he signed it.
Most of those major league players are already self entitled jerks that get everything they want since high school and live a life that us, normal Joes cant even dream of. Why do people want to give them even more power and portray them as victims is completely beyond my understanding.
Lol, never did I hate any athlete and I love sports so dont try to attack me or make me jealous of them. This doesnt change a fact that Top athletes are millionaires and live by different norms than a normal person. It funny how people who do not agree with a narrative gets called out to be rasist or haters in this forum.Do you...not know how NFL contracts work?
NFL contracts largely aren’t guaranteed, and teams have the opportunity to cut players before the end of their contracts.
You don’t have to fabricate things about victimhood to perpetuate feelings of jealousy and hate toward athletes. You, the normal Joe, aren’t a victim either.
The alternative is siding with billionaires owners who lied to him to coax him into signing a contract before exposing the fact that their organization is an unmitigated disaster and breaking the various promises they made to him.
Are they the “real” victim here? No, this isn’t about victimhood
Perhaps it’s just possible that if you hate athletes for considering their own interests, maybe sports aren’t for you.
If you don’t think they have the value they think they do, consider that you went out of your way to set up an online profile to join a community to talk about them...
Billionaires have largely been able to continue to exist by somehow winning over sympathy from the average Joe.
One of the biggest swindles in world history. Amazing.
Lol, never did I hate any athlete and I love sports so dont try to attack me or make me jealous of them. This doesnt change a fact that Top athletes are millionaires and live by different norms than a normal person. It funny how people who do not agree with a narrative gets called out to be rasist or haters in this forum.
The NFL context is that those players would not stay with those teams without the threat of the franchise tag. I mean, what you and @Los216 are arguing is that Watson signed that contract because he didn't want to play on the franchise tag, right? So...if you remove the franchise tag, Watson almost certainly never signs that contract, and he leaves for Miami and Houston is left with nothing.
You've lost me on this one. I'm the one making the argument to keep the system as it is...
As for the bolded - will just have to agree to disagree.
But he doesn’t. Only way he gets moved is if Houston allows it. That’s it. Therefore, Houston has the leverage.I can feel how much you wish this were true, for some reason.
But he doesn’t. Only way he gets moved is if Houston allows it. That’s it. Therefore, Houston has the leverage.
If leverage is sitting out, not playing, not getting paid and having your contract frozen, then I guess you’re right.