Thursday, July 14, 2005
Shark bait
I'm also sick of Drew Rosenhaus bitching about the injustice of NFL contracts: "what if a player outperforms his contract? Why is it so outlandish that a player ask for a better one?" blah, blah, blah. Guess what? That's Drew's job - to get a better situation for his clients. But the reality is Drew should be talking with one person and one person only - Gene Upshaw. The reason NFL players don't have guaranteed contracts is that's because the union agreed to that provision of their collective bargaining agreement last time around. So don't blame NFL teams - they're always out to make as much money as they can under the present system, because the system allows them to do it at the expense of players. The players get theirs in the form of signing bonuses, which Drew conveniently leaves out of his little salary calculations (taking only 1 year's salary out of a 7 year deal also tricks the math, too). But when 2007 rolls around - watch out.
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There's no such thing as "outperforming" a contract. That's what you get paid to do. And please tell me how many players the Eagles cut after the first year of their contract who were making big bucks. Hello? Didn't think so. Sure, the Eagles won't re-sign players whose contracts have expired, even to the detriment of the team (Duce Staley, for example). But Drew's fears for T.O. getting kicked off the Eagles for doing what he did last year - those are unfounded. doing what he's doing now - yeah, that'll get you kicked off a team, except no one else wants this mess on their hands.
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