Andre Not happy?

meh · May 20, 2010

REEKO_HTOWN said:

You must not know that the QB is the person who gets the ball into the WR's hands and If you think David Carr was in any way good then you should stop posting
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Didn't you just destroy your own argument? If Carr is 2-14 and Schaub is 8-8/9-7, would that mean he's the best player on the team? Not Andre?

Further proof(not that there needs to be any) that QB >>>> WR.

Bojangles · May 20, 2010

david_rocket · May 26, 2010

According to this article, Johnson said he is not pressing to get a new contact:

http://www.houstontexans.com/blog/index.asp?post_id=1172

Johnson “not pressing” for a new contract
By Nick Scurfield - May 24 2010, 2:28 PM

After the Texans’ fifth practice of organized team activities (OTA) on Monday, wide receiver Andre Johnson reiterated his comments from last Thursday that he’s moving on from discussions about his contract.

“When the time comes for it, it’ll come,” said Johnson, who sat out the first three days of OTAs in an apparent contract dispute. “I’m not pressing anything or anything like that. Hopefully, it’ll all work out.”

Johnson hired Houston-based agent Kennard McGuire on Friday, prompting speculation that he might be ready to play hardball with the Texans. But the four-time Pro Bowler, who has five years left on an eight-year extension signed in 2007, said he does not have a timetable set for working out a new deal with the team.

“Like I said, I’m not really worried about it,” he said. “I’m out here just trying to work and doing what I need to do to help win a Super Bowl around here. That’s what I’m going to continue to do, and like I said before, if that happens, it’ll happen and it will take care of itself.”

Before hiring McGuire, Johnson previously had been advised by his uncle, Andre Melton. Johnson said that Melton still “knows everything that goes on” and will be closely involved in any contract discussions as an advisor.

McGuire also represents Texans wide receiver André Davis and NFL stars including Vince Wilfork of the New England Patriots, Shaun Rogers of the Cleveland Browns, Brandon Marshall of the Miami Dolphins and T.J. Houshmandzadeh of the Seattle Seahawks.

“We just felt comfortable with him,” Johnson said of McGuire. “He’s been recruiting me since I’ve been in college. He’s right here in the city of Houston. I’ve seen him a lot. When we’re out here practicing, he’s out here watching practice and things like that. That’s the guy we just felt comfortable with.”

Im glad he changed agents, his uncle, just want to stir the pot, maybe he is titan fan, and he want to get him out of Houston.

ryan_98 · Jun 6, 2010

article on andre's 'mistake' and loss of ~ $20M

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-directsnap060310

Self-representation backfires on Johnson

HOUSTON – An adage in the legal profession is that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.

Sadly, Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson(notes) is learning the NFL version of that saying the hard way. Even after he recently hired agent Kennard McGuire to represent him, the lesson will likely cost him around $20 million over the course of his career.

Until hiring McGuire, Johnson essentially represented himself, using uncle Andre Melton as an advisor. The result of that decision has been a costly mistake for a player who is perfect in so many other ways. Aside from being a great player, Johnson is extremely classy and is roundly praised as a helpful and generous teammate.

Those would be wonderful points to make in a contract negotiation … if Johnson didn’t have five years left on his current deal. He could even use those points to counter the negativity of a holdout if Johnson was playing serious hardball with the Texans by not showing up for offseason work at all. However, Johnson has been far from disruptive. Instead, he missed three days of workouts this offseason, showed up to tell management he wasn’t happy and then went back to work with his teammates.

He did that even after Melton hinted to the media that Johnson was going to play rough with the Texans.

“My uncle may have said some things about what he thought I should do, but that didn’t come from me,” said Johnson, who led the league with 1,569 receiving yards last season.

Johnson’s body language demonstrated that he was clearly uncomfortable with the idea of holding out. The idea goes against his very nature. But Johnson, 28, is also frustrated with his contract, a deal which likely will cover the rest of his most productive seasons. By the time it expires after the 2014 season, Johnson will likely be playing out the string of his career if he’s even able to do that.

“When I missed the first days [of offseason work], everybody has their own opinion like, ‘He’s greedy and this and that.’ They don’t know the whole story, they haven’t been here, so it’s something you just have to understand,” said Johnson, the third overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft. “The crazy thing about it – and this is why I say people don’t know what was going on – when I signed the contract [extension in 2007], all you heard is, ‘He’s a great guy, he’s a team player, he restructured his deal to bring other people in.’

“But now, when I ask for a restructured contract, ‘He’s greedy, he’s a diva, he’s this.’ Everybody flips on me.”

For the Texans, this is clearly an uncomfortable subject. They have a great player who is dissatisfied. Criticizing Johnson in any way would come off as bad PR.

“I want to make something clear, this is not me against Andre Johnson,” Houston general manager Rick Smith said. “Andre is a great player and person in every way.”

But …

“We didn’t give Andre a new contract [in 2007] to create cap space so we could sign free agents. We did it because he wanted more money,” Smith said.

OK, the problem is that Johnson didn’t really get a lot more than if he had played out the old deal – certainly not enough to make up for the risk of playing out his first contract.

Here’s the breakdown: As a rookie, Johnson signed a six-year, $39 million deal, which was pretty much in line with the market at the time. Then again, most rookie contracts are essentially slotted deals and the Texans were aggressive about giving Johnson a deal to get him signed on time for camp.

Where things went wrong was after the first four years of that deal in the 2007 offseason. By that time, according to NFL Players Association figures, Johnson had earned $21.71 million and had two years left on his rookie deal. He would have made $8.35 million in 2007 and again in 2008 for a total of $38.41 million over the first six years of his contract.

That also would have made Johnson a free agent or franchise player in the 2009 offseason. By then, fellow wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald(notes) (four years, $40 million) and Roy Williams (six years, $54 million) had already signed lucrative extensions.

But instead of playing out the final two years and getting leverage that comes with being a free agent or franchise player, Johnson signed a new deal in March 2007, adding six years to his original contract.

The result was basically an eight-year deal worth $60 million. If all goes well, Johnson, who is the only other receiver under 30 who ranks with Fitzgerald, will earn a total of $81.71 million over 12 years, which is basically his whole career.

Now, there’s nothing terribly wrong with that sum, but here’s the problem: Based on what Fitzgerald and Williams signed for, it’s not absurd to believe that Johnson easily could have made more than $10 million per year if he had waited. A six-year, $66 million contract, including $32 million or so guaranteed, could easily have been had.

“Andre Johnson is the one guy who could have [gotten more per year] than Larry Fitzgerald at that point,” a prominent agent said, referring to what could have happened if Johnson had waited. “The funny part is we actually had his contract used against us in one negotiation. The team said, ‘Your guy isn’t as good as Andre Johnson and look at his contract.’ ”

The bottom line is this, if Johnson had been patient, he could have hauled in more than $104 million over the same 12 years where he stands to make $81.71 million. And that’s if he stays healthy all the way through. Under the more patient scenario, nearly $70 million of that would have been guaranteed.

Some people might argue that Johnson needed to take the new deal for more security. After all, the Texans gave him $16 million in March 2007 and he has made more than $23 million total over the past three years.

OK, but Johnson was going to get at least $8.35 million in 2007 no matter and he could have easily purchased an insurance policy to cover the other $15 million he made with that extension.

And don’t expect McGuire, a talented and experienced agent, to have much luck getting a lot out of the Texans unless Johnson is willing to really play tough and hold out. Although McGuire is friendly with Smith, the Texans likely won’t do much more than add some incentives to the contract.

In other words, it would have paid for Johnson to wait.

If only he had someone who could have explained that to him.
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meh · Jun 7, 2010

ryan_98 said:

article on andre's 'mistake' and loss of ~ $20M

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-directsnap060310
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So if Andre pulled an ACL in 2008 and loses all his speed, does this article change into "Texans' Mistake" and Kubiak/Smith should be fired for giving Andre an extension they didn't have to?

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