Anyone listening to fatcessca? Apparently Gholston had a clause in his contract that activated a $9 million bonus for his first sack or cause/recovered fumble. Shows how bad he really was. P.S. Sorry if it was already discussed.
This is so sad on so many levels. 9 million fucking dollars. I would do some pretty heinous shit for $9,000,000 - and to think all this clown had to do was simply knock the ball out of someones hands or tackle the quarterback... JUST ONCE. If you can't find any motivation from 9 million dollars then you shouldn't be alive.
And Rex gave him the chance in the last game against the Bills more then once! We overloaded the right or left side leaving the Ghost wide open for a sack, and he still couldnt do it!
I know Rex talked about that prior to the game but did it actually happen? I wouldn't be surprised if Tanny didn't tell him to make sure he DIDN'T get the sack.
Whether he got the sack or not wouldn't matter. I think the roster bonus was 95% for him to save face (Gholston hit his incentives so we had to let him go....) and 5% to protect Gholston if he really did turn into a monster and got 14 sacks.
Right? I as thinking that you had to feel the Jets were getting rid of him regardless of the Bills game so why would they want to pay him that $9 mill?
He is days late on this besides Adam Cimini & Manish also posted that factoid several days ago on Twitter. Fatso is just a copycat pulling it from them & making like he has a news flash. Real funny!
Late Hits had DWood on last night as they frequently do. He was asked about Gholston and was incredibly diplomatic "consummate professional", "always practiced well", "just didn't work out with this organization". Then Gil Brandt gets on and tells Woody he doesn't want him to respond. Goes straight at Gholston's passion as the cause (duh) and says that he once asked the coaches at Michigan how they let Gholston get out of state and go to Ohio State. He said the Michigan coaches told him that Gholston was more of an academic type. Never wanted to play football, was forced into it, and they didn't want to take a chance on a kid who just plain didn't care and never had. Nice to know the University of Michigan was smarter than the Jets FO.
I don't know, man. A lot of analysts were singing his praises before that draft, and I don't remember anyone questioning his desire to play football. Hindsight is always 20/20 I guess.
I don't think Michigan would have complained about a player with these college career mentions: National * 2007 College Football All-America Team (Pro Football Weekly) * 2007 watch-list candidate for Chuck Bednarik Award * 2007 watch-list candidate for Ted Hendricks Award Conference * 2007 Big Ten Conference Defensive Lineman of the Year (coaches) * 2007 All-Big Ten Conference First-Team (coaches and media) * 2006 All-Big Ten Conference Second-Team (coaches and media)
