It's all my plan PackZ i will trick you all into thinking i'm coming to the Ted Thompson train and as i get on the train i can sabotage it 😛 I will turn you all to the Darkside

"dhazer" wrote:

Ok i'm so confused now because NFL network has on total access and they said that Jennings is now saying that him and the Packers are still a long ways off from a contract. He says he will go thru training camp without a contract extension but if the deal isn't done before the season starts he will not talk contract during the season.


I'm so fricken confused now.

"dhazer" wrote:

Ok i'm so confused now because NFL network has on total access and they said that Jennings is now saying that him and the Packers are still a long ways off from a contract. He says he will go thru training camp without a contract extension but if the deal isn't done before the season starts he will not talk contract during the season.


I'm so fricken confused now.

"dhazer" wrote:

Jennings, who was due to make the veteran minimum in 2009, the final year of his rookie contract, has agreed to a new deal that will run through the 2012 season, according to a league source. He will earn a maximum of $31 million in the deal, should he reach the $5 million in incentives. Jennings will earn about $16 million in 2009, between his signing bonus and base salary.

lol wow i bet Jennings hopes these reports keep coming out because now the total deal is $31 million.

Jennings has long been a priority for the Packers, dating to last season. In my biased opinion, hes been the most underrated receiver in the NFL, due in part to his mild-mannered, high character ways in a position filled with selfish divas. Hes been a quiet and classy team player in Green Bay


Jennings and agent Eugene Parker waited patiently for the right deal. Earlier this spring, when I worked with Eugene on Jason Peters contract with the Eagles, Eugene kept asking if I could go up to Green Bay for a few hours and help Gregs deal get done.

I told him that Greg would get top dollar; the Packers would not let him enter his final year without a deal. They did not. More on the particulars of the deal in a future column.

3 years is long term?

"Zero2Cool" wrote:

3 years is long term?

"Zero2Cool" wrote:

Again.. I am not in the least upset that we ponied up the money to retain him.. but my opinion is he is not a top 5 receiver right this moment and one could challenge the statement that he is a top 10 receiver.

But alot of this contract is on the hope that a year or two from now he is without question a top 5 receiver in this game.. if not.. Jennings got the better end of the deal.

Again.. not a horrible deal.. we didn't horribly over pay the guy... but it is tad elevated on potential.

As far as overpaying rookie.. just because there is a flaw in the current CBA doesn't mean we have to be flawed all the way through the contract scale. A large share of the reason there was an opt out is not just to haggle over a percentage of the overall take.. but to correct this very issue.. the rookie pay scale imbalanced to the veterans chunk of the players pool and the ridiculous risks ownership takes with draft players

"pack93z" wrote: