Boston Sports teams been cheating since Red Auerbach and the city wins a title like every other year.
It really isn't. Maybe he just doesn't like being lied to or working for people he doesn't trust. Given that is what spurred the trade request, that seems like the most logical conclusion, no?
If you go back and read him being an above average QB was my entire point I never said no football player can be blackballed. So I never moved any goalpost. It's not now I want QUARTERBACKS it was always about ABOVE AVERAGE QUARTERBACKS as an opinion.
I'm surprised there appear to be some McNair/Easterby fans in this thread. Sticking with this franchise is signing up to punch yourself in the nuts every Sunday and thanking them for the opportunity.
OK, but then I also think that if you make your bed, you should have to lay in it, too. If anyone can just sign a long-term contract in professional sports and then ask out of it five months later with zero repercussions, then long-term contracts are pointless and have no value. I think this situation sets a really bad precedent for not just the NFL, but all professional sports. Everyone should just sign one-year deals. If players can have this much power, I'd really like to see the teams step up in the next CBA and have something added to all NFL contracts that says you have stay with that team for a certain length of time before you can be traded or request to be traded. I highly doubt that will happen, but I would love to see something added to contracts in professional sports that forces some accountability on teams and players for the contracts they sign. To be fair, this already exists for teams in terms of dead cap hits, but there's zero accountability from the athletes.
Ranking QB's is subjective and everybody has their own rankings. I think of Elite as the top 3-5 and we only have maybe 3 elite QB's currently Rodgers, Wilson and Mahommes in no particular order. Just because you can be considered top 10 does not make you elite IMO, I do think he is top 10.
1) There are repercussions 2) That's what the CBA is for All of this stuff has been agreed to. Nothing anyone is doing is a breach of contract.
Well seeing the teams he wants to go to points to at least part of his motivation being in a larger market.
it's not subjective in this context. having a top 10 and arguably top 5 is elite. If it isn't to you then that's your standards. above average qb's are all across the league. watson is easily better than just that
Not anyone can do it and a small percentage of players in all professional sports do it, so that's kind of a strawman. Why is it ok for the NFL teams to not have to live up to the contracts but the players have to.
Have I missed something? Did we get an official list of teams he wants to go to? The rumored list of the Jets and Dolphins includes one bigger and one smaller market team.
And Kapernick didnt fit that bill for you! You want ANOTHER example for the point to resonate. I just found that funny is all.
This is nothing new. John Elway and Eli Manning did it decades ago. If you have power, you use it. Only a handful of people have that kind of power - Watson is one of them. That power is supposed to be the incentive for organizations to do right by their players.
