sschind
9 years ago

Yeah and his agent could have said he will play for the league minimum while he was at it. That's not how it works. You don't see too many "Andre Dawson blank contracts". It is up he the GM of the team to contact the player's agent and make the inquiry/offer not the other way around.

Originally Posted by: wpr 



If I'm a player and I wanted to play for a certain team I wouldn't sit around and wait for them to call me. I'd have my agent call them and at least put it out there I was interested. I'm a Packer fan and I grew up a Packer fan. If I played football and I was drafted by the vikings I would play out my contract and tell my agent "now get the Packers on the phone" If DT really wanted to play for us he could have done something about it. You notice he didn't say "I would have signed with the Packers had they called me"

Personally I don't think there was much more to DTs comments than good natured banter between players. It was James Jones who asked the question after all and judging by DTs comments he has something with Randall Cobb (were they team mates in college or something, I don't know)

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9 years ago

If I'm a player and I wanted to play for a certain team I wouldn't sit around and wait for them to call me. I'd have my agent call them and at least put it out there I was interested. I'm a Packer fan and I grew up a Packer fan. If I played football and I was drafted by the vikings I would play out my contract and tell my agent "now get the Packers on the phone" If DT really wanted to play for us he could have done something about it. You notice he didn't say "I would have signed with the Packers had they called me"

Personally I don't think there was much more to DTs comments than good natured banter between players. It was James Jones who asked the question after all and judging by DTs comments he has something with Randall Cobb (were they team mates in college or something, I don't know)

Originally Posted by: sschind 



Go back to one of my earlier comments. I said more than likely he wanted GB to call because he wanted them to drive the bidding up. More than likely he didn't really want to play for GB anymore than he wanted any other top tiered team that has a need at MLB and plays a 3-4. If it was GB that would have been ok with him because of his old college buddy Cobb. Like 90% of the layers he is going to go wherever he gets the biggest payday. His rookie deal was up and it was time to cash in his chips. If Jaxville had offered him $6 mil a year he would have packed his bags and headed to FL.

Also one of my earlier comments was that is disappointing that with GB having the need and a quality player being available and not cost prohibitive, it would have been nice if GB has showed some kind of interest. They didn't have to actually sign him to satisfy many of the faithful, just act like they want to improve the ILB position instead of pretending all is well and the players they have are better than any of the available FAs.
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sschind
9 years ago

Go back to one of my earlier comments. I said more than likely he wanted GB to call because he wanted them to drive the bidding up. More than likely he didn't really want to play for GB anymore than he wanted any other top tiered team that has a need at MLB and plays a 3-4. If it was GB that would have been ok with him because of his old college buddy Cobb. Like 90% of the layers he is going to go wherever he gets the biggest payday. His rookie deal was up and it was time to cash in his chips. If Jaxville had offered him $6 mil a year he would have packed his bags and headed to FL.

Originally Posted by: wpr 



now that makes sense as a reason he wanted them to call.
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9 years ago
I just don't get the "he and his agent just wanted GB interest to get a bidding war going" argument.

Every player or agent with a brain wants a bidding war. So what?

If you refuse to ask because it might spawn a bidding war, then you never ask.

If you insist on getting every player for below market value you will have a below market team.
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Cheesey
9 years ago

Yeah and his agent could have said he will play for the league minimum while he was at it. That's not how it works. You don't see too many "Andre Dawson blank contracts". It is up he the GM of the team to contact the player's agent and make the inquiry/offer not the other way around.

Originally Posted by: wpr 


I know it's not the "norm", I'm just saying a player can request his agent to contact a team if he REALLY has a desire to go to a certain team. There's no rule saying it can't be done. And it doesn't hurt or cost anything to do so.
If I had a desire to play in a certain place, I'd tell my agent to make a call just to see.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
But he got his money. In the end that's seems be be the only thing that matters to 99% of the players in today's modern sports.
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