DHop just doing what his agents telling him to do, CAA has been notably difficult to deal with: too high asking prices, holdouts, bully negotiating tactics. They demand, then walk. Look what happened with Osweiler... Broncos had $18.5M/per offer with $35M guaranteed waiting but they were never given the chance. But as far as I'm concerned...
Joel Corry @corryjoel Agency... CAA is huge. Peyton and Brock both with CAA when Denver was waiting for Peyton to officially retire before signing Brock.
good for him, he was the offense last season and he deserves top 5-10 receiver in the game. The greedy owners pimp these players and reap all the monetary benefits of the blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice of the players dedicated work to this game. NFL, NBA. MLB are billion dollar sports because of the players alone, PAY THEM you greedy devils. Roger goodell getting paid 5 million to do nothing but be a hypocritical, unjust dictator is a crime, and the players should walk out on these devils. D-Hop seen the way the greedy FO ran Andre Johnson and Foster into the ground and is going to be smart that he at least get compensated.
.....they did the right thing with Dre, he was washed up and was set to make WAY more money than he was worth so they gave him the option of a pay cut or being cut outright. Honestly the organization did both Dre and Foster right, look how quickly we forget about how they ripped up the awful deal Dre's family member negotiated for him that had like 4 more years on it and instead made him the highest paid receiver at the time. In fact, the Texans have never done anyone wrong when it comes to paying them unless they were at the end of their career and not worth it.
What if he doesn't blow up. Or if he gets injured. Fans will be ready to crucify Rick Smith for signing him early. It's a dice roll.
Yup, if anything the Texans have been loyal, too loyal to a fault. *coughs* Matt Schaub. No sense in worrying about Nuk. He will get a new contract and he will get paid.
So, did the Rick Smith extension trigger this or did the Texans already know about the coming discontent and extend Smith first anyway?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Precedent isn't a great justification with DeAndre Hopkins. 2011 & 2012 1st round picks (Watt & Mercilus) got new deals after 3 years.</p>— Joel Corry (@corryjoel) <a href="https://twitter.com/corryjoel/status/759475865780563968">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If a player is going to holdout, there is no better time than what DeAndre Hopkins has picked. Competitive team trying to win now. Desperate</p>— Jason Cole (@JasonColeBR) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonColeBR/status/759476178797289473">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Will be interesting to see how DeAndre Hopkins and Antonio Brown turn out as they seek new contracts taking different approaches.</p>— Jason Cole (@JasonColeBR) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonColeBR/status/759476427217473537">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pay the man, Rick Smith!! RT <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLRT">@NFLRT</a>: This is why DeAndre Hopkins is holding out of Texans Training Camp <a href="https://t.co/GVWizPpqFN">pic.twitter.com/GVWizPpqFN</a></p>— Jess (@thebohbitty) <a href="https://twitter.com/thebohbitty/status/759478608427573248">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I don't think it's about the agents - he hired the agents specifically to renegotiate this deal - he's the one driving this. As far as Altuve, if he keeps putting up these numbers, I don't think there's any way Boras does anything to prevent FA. His whole schtick is getting players to free agency and playing teams off each other to sign gigantic deals. I doubt that the Astros would/could pay whatever some team like the Yankees or Dodgers could offer, so it seems like he has every incentive to take Altuve to free agency.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Statement from Texans GM Rick Smith: "We are disappointed DeAndre has elected not to report to training camp with... <a href="https://t.co/GZT7OgiE7S" title="http://fb.me/1gx7QigEe">fb.me/1gx7QigEe</a></p>— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/759493505567731712" data-datetime="2016-07-30T20:58:57+00:00">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>DeAndre Hopkins is due a $445,005 roster bonus on the fifth day of training camp.</p>— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWilson_NFL/status/759490433227468800" data-datetime="2016-07-30T20:46:44+00:00">July 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
We can stop with the Fire Smith chatter because they just extended him to 2020. So firing him at this point is not happening.
