Quote: @FSUVike said:
Jimmy clearly doesn't watch ESPN. How do I know that? Because there is a large number of former Players from every team sport serving as commentators on the talk shows with a nearly Universal opinion that Players don't let what others Players are going through contract-wise get to them.
They don't care about who is holding out. Who is making noise about a new deal. Or who is in a tough restructure situation.
They only care about their own situation. And that is according to dozens of former athletes. It's the only thing they can control.
Now if we're talking Agents that's another thing. If Griff or Rudy has BRob's Agent it could get ugly as they absolutely hold a grudge with GMs and even Organizations.
I don't disagree with that - except a renegotiation literally
is something they can control. It's not dollar amounts that they are comparing their situations to - it's comparing a precedent sent to their own current situation they are in control of.
If they had no say and they team could flex/force new terms then i'd say yea, it's something out of their control and something they ultimately shouldn't worry about. It's entirely in their control if they are asked to take a paycut - they can say 'f off' and then go back to not worrying about the process.
Ultimately there are a ton of nuances to this kind of thing - but I would expect something like an
expectation to be cut in camp to be mitigated in renegotiation on the agents side and it would be on the Vikes to decide if they want to have something like guaranteed money spread out over the deal. If the Vikes even try to write the deal in a way that makes it easy to cut them i'd
know better and walk.
i don't really disagree with anyone either though - Rudy being harder to replace in my opinion that Griff - i'm ok with continuing to build these two positions with younger, less expensive, players. The cap relief will be nice; we are stacked seemingly at DE. I'm ok with moving on and like the idea of adding a new weapon at TE.