Didn’t Owens catch less than 10 TD passes last year? That’s almost $1,000,000 per TD catch.
And he wants a fucking raise? Go pound sand, you moron.
Well, he actually had 14 TDs and 1200 yards in 14 games. That’s pretty damn good by anyone’s standards.
Contracts in the NFL are completely structured to benefit the teams (teams can cut you off in the middle of a contract, but your only recourse is to hold out).
As it is, the current structure also benefits the league and fans so I’m not complaining.
Drew Rosenhaus attempts to undermine the system. Perhaps that’s all right in theory (it’s complicated). He’s not a very likeable guy though, and the way in which these things play out is always ugly and the only way for a player to fight it is to look selfish.
TO just seems to have gone too far with it. He still has to realize that there is a team there.
No, he was studly stud-boy last year, catching 14 TDs. One short of the 15 required to make Andy Reid wear spandex shorts in practice.
I call bullshit on the NFL players citing this as the reason for a holdout.
NFL teams most certainly CANNOT change a contract at will. They CANNOT reduce the money they agreed to without the player’s consent. All they can do is cut the player or trade the player. If they want the player to play for them, THEY MUST ABIDE BY THE CONTRACT. They can threaten to cut/trade if the player doesn’t renegotiate, true. But that is EXACTLY THE SAME as a player holding out.
The players are saying it’s unfair and one-sided. To reach equality, all that is needed is for the player to be able to quit (ala Ricky Williams) without being subject to penalty. Actually, the only penalty the team can go after is the signing bonus. And hey, guess what, the team is penalized for the signing bonus when cuttingv/trading the player.
So unless somebody in this thread can explain to me what the actual discrepancy is, I maintain that there is no “advantaged” side in the contract. The team is every bit as constrained as the player.
The major difference is this:
If a player UNDERPERFORMS his contract, he is back on the market with his underperforming value (usually deemed part of the business).
If he OVERPERFORMS his contract, he has no way to renegotiate his value except through holding out (usually deemed a selfish act by media and fans).
A player CAN renegotiate with a team in the middle of a contract. Of course he can be cut again, and it’s sometimes still considered selfish.
I just want to say that as a Redskins fan living in PA, I’m lovin’ this.
I loved it when TO compared his “plight” to that of Jesus.
I don’t suppose you have a link to that, do you? Not that I don’t believe you (seems like something he’d do), I’d just love to read that.
WRONG!
Owens turned into complete poison in the locker room of the Niners. He had a very open fued with Jeff Garcia, the Offensive Coordinator and the head coach Marriucci. He then took the antics to the field dropping easy passes in aligator arm fashion. He gave up on plays, ran several open field catches out of bounds and had several temper tantrums on the sideline during games. When TO is unhappy, he let everyone know about it both on the field and off.
Personally I hope the Eagles keep him suspended or bench him.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the funny feeling that Rosenhaus (who didn’t negotiate Owens’s current deal) is just feeding more “they are screwing you, man!” logs on the “they are screwing me, man!” fire just so he can get his 3%?
This would be novel to me and it would be funny to me if Mike Lupica hadn’t already written the exact same scene in the funniest sports book I’ve ever read, Bump and Run.
Go pick it up, and if you think A.T.M. Moore isn’t T.O., I’ll eat my boots.
*Not that I mean A.T.M. is based on T.O.(what with the book being written a while back), but Lupica wrote the cliche as over-the-top as he could, yet here T.O. is, reciting it as though it were a script.
This is clearly all Bush’s fault.
Rosenhaus is the worst thing to happen to football since T.O.
Oh, I don’t think there’s any question about that.
One of Rosenhaus’ recurring themes seems to be “they are risking their lives every time they go out on the field.” If you ever hear a guy saying that, he’s been infected; you can be he’s a Rosenhaus guy.
I think that he gets these guys to thinking, “you can’t risk your life for 8 Mil. . .but 10 Mil, that’s a different story.”
I’ll argue with his desire to win: when he was unhappy in San Francisco, he started short-arming passes (even dropping passes that hit him in the numbers) and breaking off routes early. If he takes the field for the Eagles, he’ll do the same thing. Sure, he wants to win, as long as it’s winning on his terms and his terms only.
Or, what Stuffy said.
I hope they kick him to the curb for the disruption factor alone. I don’t care how much talent these dudes have. There has to be a line drawn on what can be tolerated. And I’m betting there are more waiting in the wings for a chance to show they are just as good, if not better. Give them the chance.
Not to highjack, but I feel the same way about Ricky Williams being allowed back in. Kick him to the curb as well for his disruption of that team!
As a Cowboys fan in California, I agree. 
Cowboys and Redskins can agree on something.
Although there is plenty of passion behind all of the NFC East rivalries, there seems to be a lot more honor and respect between Cowboys and Redskins than with the Eagles.
COWBOYS FAN: “I’m gonna call you ‘Foreskins.’” Take that! 
REDSKINS FAN: “I’m gonna call you ‘Crygirls.’” Take that!
EAGLES FAN: “I’m gonna throw D-sized batteries at your players from the stands and cheer when your future hall of fame receiver breaks his neck, ending his career on our field.” Bastards. :mad:
I hope they keep TO, allow him to poison the entire team, end up 0-16, then disband and abolish the Philadelphia Eagles forever.
Guess I don’t have to go into work today seeing as the world is slated to end at 06:00 tomorrow. :eek:
And the seventh angel opened the seal on the seventh scroll…