This is your franchise QB. Some might say cross that bridge when you get there But it's easy to say that when it's not your money either
The Darnold family has to step in ...money up front or not NO 21 year kid starts his first job with a 20 Mil signing bonus (and it's all guaranteed)!!!!??!! You can't let a kid double dip if the other rookie QBs DIDNT My opinion of SD is now about the same as the other Cali kid Rosen...straight down the drain
Best post so far imo.. Have a presser to embarrass the fat cat Sexton and humble Sam back to the Sam we all thought we knew..sigh Push come to shove the Jets look good and the rest no better than MEVIS
I hope I'm wrong but I have a bad feeling. About future contract negotiations with this kid. Does he really like New York/New Jersey? I don't know. Is he a Cali kid who dreams of one day playing for a team out in California such as the Chargers, Raiders or Rams? Maybe I'm just paranoid. I understand that QB's such as Brady & Roders are both Cali kids as well, and yet have stayed loyal to their drafted teams. And also that Rams & Raiders have Carr & Goff. Ah. But don't sleep on the Chargers "making a pitch". I just don't like the sounds of any contract disputes surrounding a big name rookie and hopeful Franchise QB. I don't want my N.Y Franchise to leave a bad taste in a California kid's mouth due to a rocky begining to a relationship. I've waited for so long to have a QB. I'm already scared of Darnold's "decision" 4/5 years from today. I don't like hard ball. Because there's always a winner and a loser. All I know is this. If the Jets drafted me tomorrow? I would've signed yesterday. But there lies the difference of a fan like me & a player/agent.
So if that's the case, Darnold should accept the offset language, just like the #1 pick and rest of the top draft picks. Again, we don't know what is actually holding things up. The Jets may want to pay the signing bonus across several seasons and Darnold could want it all up front.
It certainly is a possibility. You could be right. However it is completely inexcusable that we're in this situation right now hammering out things that should've been hammered out months, weeks, days ago. Who was dragging their feet here and being unreasonable? That's what I want to know. Because virtually every other player is signed and in camp. Why isn't ours?
How appropriate is it to be directing scorn in one direction or another if nobody really knows what the particulars are that have kept the deal from being complete?
Well it's just what we do as fans Plus for us to be at this point is unfathomable to me. Maybe not for others but to me it is. I'm laying a lot of blame at the feet of both parties Darnold should've told Six-Ton, drag it to the very end if you have to but I cannot miss camp. I want to be the leader of this franchise for the foreseeable future and being one of two (and the most high profile) rookie holdout paints me as a spoiled brat and already off on the wrong foot. Sam should know and understand this Chris Johnson should've told Mac to cave if it looks like they want to play hardball and hold out. Give the kid what he wants because we believe in his abilities on the field. That's why we drafted him 3. But now he has to prove it. Put this behind us. Start this era off without any controversy. Make Sam happy
Every name you mention here is of a guy making business decisions. And that is quite appropriate because these are first and foremost business matters. The games will come later, like it or not.
And they both handled it poorly, and immaturely. When 99% of the rest of your peers are signed and playing and you're quibbling over things they put to bed long ago...that says something about you It can still get resolved with no harm, but it better be done soon. Jabba The Sexton and Mac better be burning the midnight oil.
His year 4 salary is more like $4.5 million. We don't know what's holding things up. "The reports" are all based on a Cimini tweet.
