As funny as all this may be for us, I just hope the FO isn't creating any divisions between them and the players. Many of them (especially D'Brick and Mangold, who Kendall supposedly mentored) may respect Kendall a great deal, and these obvious acts of disrespect may get those players to side against the FO. I just don't think it's really necessary for the FO to leave themselves open to internal feuding...no matter how funny it might be.
I wish we would give the guy the extra million and get rid of this distraction. We have the cap room and he is a veteran player who will be a key on our offensive line. As much as people don't think he is that great an option there is nobody out there that is better. I honestly would probably have been pissed too if I had come to camp and found that all my stuff was with the rookies. As long as he is there he should be treated like a veteran. However, I do not believe he should be receiving snaps with the first team. It doesn't look like he is going to be on the team so we should be giving other people oppurtunities to step up and take his place
Kendall is a complainer, but at the same time the Front Office/ Coaching Staff are acting like pricks. Kendall is getting underpaid, and granted he did sign a contract, he still has a right to complain, it happens all the time in the league. I mean he wants to be released and we obviously dont really want him (if they our playing him on 2nd team) so cut your losses and release him, dont act like little whiney punks and play mind games with him. It has to be personal. Kendall on the 2nd team? please... just end the damn soap opera. I know u guys wont accept criticism of "Mangenius" and "Tangenius" but seriously they had better both hope they keep winning because they way they treat some of their players is insane and imagine we start out slow sometime I could definetely see some major grumblings from veterans - not good.
It isn't personal - it is business. You don't let a player like Kendall walk - just so that he can sign with a divisional rival. I am completely unconcerned as to the effect that this dispute might have. Our management has shown the ability to garner respect in spite of being unpopular (see L. Coles). In the end I feel that Kendall will mutter less and less as this thing plays out and might even decide to start playing for a raise rather than whining for one. I'm sorry but he didn't play well enough to deserve a raise. His only reasoning behind getting one is what others are being paid. That just doesn't cut it.
The FO is acting as it should, not like pricks. The guy signed a contact and he is NOT getting underpaid when you consider his true worth to the team, and his age. Instead, it's that other guards are getting OVERpaid and we don't want to join that group of teams who went too far.
he is playing second team because he did not go to the voluntary workouts...thats the message. do what your told its your job
I don't like the fact that he's from Weymouth, Mass. Well, I don't like anything about Mass, but my point is, if we cut him well into camp, he's a pretty easy pick up for the Pats, which would be a good move for them if only to pick his brain about the Jets.
For those that think we should give in and just pay him what he thinks he's worth, here's a question: What would the Pats do? That's the key question you have to ask yourself in any situation like this now. Mangini has learned from Belichick himself. Would Beli put up with HALF the BS Kendall is pulling? He's still here because the Jets aren't going to let him walk for free. Deion Branch jumped up and down, held his breath till he was blue, then screamed at the top of his lungs, and the Pats were still able to get a deal for him. The Jets are simply biding their time until they can find a proper buyer for this douche. Bet on it.
yeah. even if its just a late round pick, the most important thing is that we're able to control WHERE he is heading. send him somewhere to seattle or arizona. not that im scared of kendall the football player, but i dont want him to sign a contract with the dolphins, pats or bills because they are going to pick his brain and we dont need that right now. the guy is pissed as hell, he would gladly tell them some of our "secrets"
We're waiting for some other team to have an injury at guard (does happen a lot in training camp) and then we will ship his butt out of here.
Of all the coverage of TC I would have hoped to see on SNY and other NY Sports stations, all I've seen for the past 24 hours is video of Kendall whining and crying to a bunch of reporters. I'm sick of it now and sick and tired of this guy dominating the news stories concerning TC. So sick, in fact, that I'm thinking of taking the drive over there tomorrow morning to watch pratice for myself. At least I won't have rely on the local news channels to give me my information, which, more than likely, will continue to center around the cry-babyish, whining, unappreciative, coach criticizing, attention seeking, contract reneging, panty-waisted mutant we have in player Pete Kendall. Enough already, Pete!
And I ain't through yet! Go play with the 2nd String, the 3rd String or the Farm Team for all I care. Go sleep in the Rookie Dorm or the men's room or pitch yourself a f*cking tent behind The Netherlands. Who gives a sh*t? We're sick and tired of hearing about it, dude. We've got other things to do at camp... the world doesn't revolve around where the f*ck you sleep, okay? God, I'm pissed. Enough already, man. I'm going over to Camp tomorrow just to get my own f*cking news. So sick and tired of hearing about Kendall and his f*cking problems. Get over yourself, dude. You're with the 2nd Team now... suck it up, asshole!
There are two sides to this and I'm not taking Kendall's side at all but when people say he signed a contract, he did. He signed that contract because the Jets had a real cap problem and he gave away a lot of money to help them out when they needed it. Now the Jets have plenty of money and he feels he should get a little of what he gave away back. I don't think he's being at all unreasonable in asking for an extra million bucks.
he gave away a lot of money? hows that? the guy made 5 millions last year, which btw is unheard of for an average starting guard in his mid 30s. he made a lot more money because of that (his base salary was 1.5 million) and he received a 3.5 million signing bonus last year. so he didnt do it because he wanted to help us, he did it because of the 3.5 million signing bonus we payed him. and now he is asking for another contract. here is a plan: why dont we just sign a pro bowl guard in his mid 20s and pay him the 5 million/year kendall is asking for?
Here's the way I see it: The Jets go to players all the time (particularly the older ones) and ask them to restructure to save them Cap room. If they want to continue playing for us, it's not a bad idea to agree to do this, particularly if you're an aging player. So Kendall agreed to this and swapped salary for signing bonus. Am I correct so far? I think I am. So far so good, and if so, let me continue... Nowhere in the new contract does it say, "In the future, whenever the NY Jets should come across more Cap room, they should give me more money." the Jets and other clubs restructure to make Cap room to use on younger players. That's just the way it is. That's how teams grow... not by giving more Cap-counting salary to aging players. Kendall signed this new contract knowing exactly what it entailed. For him to now expect the Jets to give him more just because they have some Cap space is ludicrous. You need that Cap space to sign Revis and others now and Lord only knows how much we'll have left after that, so for Kendall to now feel "he should get a little of what he gave away back" is not "reasonable," it's just plain nonsense. Besides, going back to the Jets and asking for some help is one thing. If the Jets say no, that should be the end of it and we can't blame you for asking, Pete, so now we'd appreciate it if you'd just get back to work and report to Camp like everybody else. What's that? Now you're demanding? If you don't get what you want, now you're gonna bad-mouth coach Mangini, tell the press you've been screwed, air all your dirty laundry in public and use every opportunity whenever the press is around to denegrate the FO and the organization? Uh.... no.... this isn't reasonable. This is being a whining, crying, Massachusetts pain in the ass. I swear to God, there's something in the Cod Fish up there.
Is the only player who got a big signing bonus and then a smaller salary the following years? He should be happy with what he got last year because he is not underpayed this year if you average out the money he made last year and this year. Is that so hard for him to understand? What if he gets hurt this year? He still gets to keep the big signing bonus he got last year? That's a pretty good deal. If he gets hurt and can't play or they trade him, should the jets ask him to give them back some of last year's signing bonus? Anyway, why all the attention for an average guard? Is he the most valuable player on the team? Did he really give up any money when he restructured his contract?
If Kendall is just average, why care about him signing with the Fins or whoever. I think the front office are being pricks about this. Kendall doesn't wanna be here, he won't be on the team.. just send him home.. trade him or release him and let him catch on somewhere else.
While I'd like to see this resolved, I don't see the FO "being pricks about this." As Mangini said, they are doing (and are going to do) what's in the best interest of the NY Jets about this. Pretty simple if you ask me. This is not about what Pete Kendall wants... never was... never should be. This is about what the Jets want. The Jets have a starter who agreed to a contract. His contract says he reports to TC and plays this year. No one is being a prick about anything... well... no one except Pete Kendall. Maybe we won't trade him... it all depends on what developes in camp. And then again, maybe we will trade him, if that's what suits us. And if we do, we'll trade him when we're ready to do so, not when Kendall says we should. And we'll trade him to whatever team we want to, not necessarily the one Kendall wants to go to. So all of this is something that Kendall, as a grownup and supposed professional athlete, is supposed to understand. It's unfortunate that he obviously doesn't, and has taken all this to levels way beyond reasonable. It's Kendall who's being a prick, not the Jets.
