in this Arena? Lamar Jackson hires an agent or
sits out all of the 2023 seas and what's more likely to you
miles?
I mean, I would hope that he hires an agent because I don't
want to go through a season without seeing Lamar Jackson.
I met, Mike, this thought occurred to me last night. Why
hasn't Lamar Jackson? Just hired David Malaga
if guaranteed money is the issue
and we see that will get us to
negotiated the deal for Deshaun Watson
season. It kind of like, oh David, I've seen what you've
done for others. Please. Won't you do that for me?
Why hasn't he done that?
I don't know that. All this stuff about Lamar Jackson
situation, absolutely, baffles me. Whether it is I'm not
having an agent him getting not exclusive franchise tag and you
know, team after team after team leaking, we don't want
this
cat. That needs, 2019 and BP bleep it, I don't want to whatever.
I need a franchise quarterback and I supplicated myself at
the feet of DeShaun Watson last year. No way, do I want Lamar
Jackson noon? no new so I don't know maybe it is that he sits
out the 2023 season because he feels disrespected and probably
should
David Miller got is a guy who engineered the DeShaun Watson
deal last year. He's with athletes, first CAA is
the other major quarterback for a minute. I've refrained from
naming names Miles because the problem is,
I'm going to draw the line somewhere, and whoever is on
the other side of it, is going to be wearing me out for
the rest of the day. So thank you for lighting that fuse. Thank
you very much for starting me down that path and consuming
maybe two or three hours of my day today.
But I've said this all along, it doesn't take much. Any phone
calls if your Lamar Jackson to find out who the best agents
are
part of the problem though, is he's been working with
the nflpa and there's a mindset within the union that they want
players
to do it themselves. Because there's a degree of acrimony
between
union management
and agents generally,
and they've tried to
extend Olive branches, but that there's a deeper battle going
on here, because As the agents have power and influence over
the players, the union wants to have the power and influence
over the players. That's the
battle within the battle and that may be one of the reasons
why Jackson doesn't have an agent. I think it's more likely
he sits out the season then hires an agent because there's
no way, he's hiring an agent. This point, it's become a point
of Pride,
he's not going to admit, he was wrong and hiring an agent, in
his mind would be admitting he was wrong to not have one all
along and the 2023 season
sitting it out. Not any Domino's have to fall to get to
that point. Okay
we're already past the first big one
thirty two point four million dollar non exclusive franchise tag
teams aren't going to pursue him
by all appearances. I know all it takes is one
but we've already seen this Cascade of we're not
interested. We're not interested. We're not
interested if nobody signed him to an offer sheet.
He doesn't have a long-term contract because once he signs
the offer sheet either place for that team of the Ravens
match it. So he's in for 2023.
So let's say we get to July 15.
The deadline for signing him to a long-term deal. If you're
the Ravens and they just don't work it out. Why would we think
they're gonna work it out? They haven't worked. One out and two
and a half years for crying out loud. Why are they going to
work? One out by July 15.
So we get to July 16
32 point four million
is what his salary would be under the franchise tag. And
that's the point where I would advise Lamar Jackson. Accent.
If he were my client, my son, my cousin, my brother, my
nephew, my friend, I would say,
don't play for thirty two point four million. You tell them.
You want the 45 that they should have put on you back in
March? They're playing a game with your life here man. Tell
him you're not playing for anything less than 45 million.
I don't think there's many steps
not nearly as many as people would think
or fewer than people would think sorry
to get to the point where
he's just out for 2023.
Oh I
and we've seen it with Le'Veon Bell so we've already we've
already crossed that bridge. It shouldn't surprise anybody if
it happens and it would be for a different reason
but I will not be flabbergasted if Lamar Jackson doesn't play
in 2023 because we are farther down the road to that
happening. Then I think we appreciate at this point.
Oh yeah, no. I but Mike, I mean you and I were talking about
this a couple of weeks ago and there was a question on the,
you know, one of the PFT PM's we did it, you know.
In a possibility that Lamar Jackson sits out in 2023 and
the answer is absolutely. Yes. And yeah, I think that you're
right. It's not you know, too far from A to Z
to get there. Right? We're already maybe on like
dce or whatever. I don't know. I just messed up
alphabet. Oh No.
But I think it's just it's a weird thing right now where you
have one more Jackson in this situation and you just saw what
happened with Daniel Jones, right? And he's got a deal that
will give him basically 37 and a half million
And right over the next few years,
and then Lamar Jackson is now right now, as we speak set to
make 32, it's just not right. And, you know, there have been
a lot of things that have happened that have gotten us to
this point, but from here
to there, it's just is not that far.
I wonder how many more quarterbacks have to get
contracts that aren't fully guaranteed. Before Lamar
Jackson, surrenders his position. And I thought maybe
he was
the leak to Steven Naismith from Lamar's Camp from two
weeks ago today, that we heard about 13 days ago, that Lamar
never asked for a fully guaranteed contract. I thought
that was kind of a way to distance
from the idea fully guaranteed contract because again, it
becomes a point of Pride but
don't want to hire an agent because you
Admit you were wrong to not have an agent. Don't want to
back off your demand for a fully guaranteed contract
because you don't want to meet you were wrong to want one all
along and you should have taken. Maybe not. Maybe
probably if not, definitely the offer that the Ravens put on
the table last year, but it felt like maybe he was looking
for a way to back off. Now, he's never going to find out if
none of these teams engage him in conversation because they
all assume he wants a five-year fully guaranteed contract, that
would be the
irony here, if I'm using the word properly and I never know
if I am
of him, not getting any phone. Phone calls. They think he
wants a fully guaranteed five-year contract so they're
not calling him maybe he wants something else now and there's
no way to let anyone know because back to the original
point, he doesn't have an agent to aggressively
proactively contact. These teams to say it could be worth
your while to engage me in a conversation about Lamar
Jackson. So,
this is a mess and I feel bad for the kid
because
And
and, you know, Chris and I had a spirited debate yesterday
about Lamar Jackson,
it is fair to say this, and I say this at the risk of having
another clip being put on social media with Lamar,
Jackson, retweeting it with a gif.
But
it's his own fault at a certain point. And
look, I
I give a lot of these guys who are 25 24 23, 22 the benefit of
the doubt because my son is 26 and
To me,
the order, my son gets the younger, his age seems to me so
I can see myself in ten years saying God he's only 35. What
do we expect them to do but
at a certain point you are a grown-ass man.
At a certain point you are responsible for the decisions
you've made at a certain point. It is fair for us to say Lamar,
this is all your
fault. The fact that you don't have a long-term. Deal the fact
that you haven't gotten your financial reward for the things
you've done in the NFL,
this is your fault. You were Penny wise and pound foolish.
You're being stubborn. Now, you continue to make bad decisions
for your own financial future. This is your fault at some
point. It's fair to say that and based upon how the next few
weeks play out,
we're probably at the point where it's more than fair to
say that.
Well, thank you control room, for putting my face, back on
the screen. So now Mike gets retweeted. I'm going to be
with me.
Am I wrong? Look, Mike. I mean I think
I mean I do think that and I've said this before, this
situation, probably would have been avoided if Lamar Jackson
had an agent, because the agent never would have. Let Lamar
Jackson step on the field
in his fourth season
without a new contract, right? Josh Allen got a
Ooh, deal that offseason and if Josh Allen gets a new deal and
he's not won an MVP. And this player has won an MVP, then he
shouldn't be stepping on the field without a new contract,
that pays him more than Josh Allen.
I mean, that's just, that's always the way I've thought
about it. So this should have been done years ago. And Lamar
Jackson should never have been playing on the contract. That
gave him, whatever it gave him in the 20 Millions, right? For
his 50-year option that thing should have been ripped up.
He won an MVP award already.
You should never be playing for us.
Sensibly 32 million dollars that thing should have been
ripped up and never should have gotten to this point. So,
I mean, I don't know. I mean whether it's the Raven saying,
you know, he wouldn't engage with us and we were trying and
he didn't
want to do it. He was focused on football
and now we are at this point where we're at, I mean, I think
yeah, sure part of it goes to the Ravens 24, not just
acquiescing and giving him whatever he wanted, but if
you're constructing a team, you can't just always do that,
right? The Ravens are not in as a desperate position as
the Browns were last offseason to give Lamar Jackson that kind of
contract, right? So
this is where we are. And I
don't really know what the solution is at this point.
Especially if other teams are saying that they are not
interested in Lamar Jackson which again still baffles me
whether or not you think that he wants a fully guaranteed
contract. I don't know if you're the Carolina Panthers
and all it takes is an offer sheet and two first-round picks
to potentially get Lamar Jackson.
If If you're, if you're the Atlanta Falcons and that's all
it takes the Washington commanders,
really?
I just want you're not going to engage with him because that
I don't know, man, I don't know.
I still think the commanders are in play for a variety of
reasons that we previously discussed,
but I want to, I want to address two things that you
said and I'm going to work backward as it relates to
the Ravens, they have a track record of doing Fair deals with
pliers. I don't think this is on them
and they did it. They did a deal with
real Quinn Smith, who
was self-represented. Now,
I also kind of think that maybe they went a little overboard to
get the road Quinn Smith deal done. So they could say see,
see,
we know how to negotiate with a guy who resents himself but
regardless the constant based and at the combine by the way.
Yeah. Right. They have a track record of doing Fair
deals and building a team.
You mentioned Josh Alan.
I'm going to see your Josh Allen
and I'm going to raise you a Kyler marie-helene
has think about last year
when you said when you said
he's not setting foot on the field in your for, that's
exactly the vibe that is Agent. Put out there, he's not playing
and it didn't come initially from the agent. It came from
a reporter because the agents
To draw Porter. That's why you need an agent Lamar because
the agent calls the reporter
and says, my clients. Not setting foot
on the field this year. Go ahead and write it,
don't quote me, don't call me, but go ahead and write it cause
you won't be wrong. He's not playing
for five million dollars this year,
and then, you get the Eric Burkhart
Ted Kaczynski. The Unabomber Manifesto remember that thing.
They needed a magnifying glass to read that he put on his
Twitter yet. This
my God. God, I still have a headache from trying to read
that freaking thing but that's what you get. You get
the all-out
assault from an agent who can go and see. Now we've named CAA
athletes first, Eric Burkhart at least I've dropped now.
Somebody on the other side of that bubble is going to say,
why didn't you mention me? You mentioned all the others.
Why didn't you mention my name?
So, thanks again. Miles for starting us down that path.
But that's, that's what happens when you have an agent who
Aggressively pushes the agenda the client
and it's all goes back to Richard Sherman. Sorry Richard.
You can go ahead and retweet this to
not its name. It wasn't enough for Richard to just say it's
pretty Office. Three to represent myself. I have to
tell everybody else represent yourself, everybody else go
represent yourself,
you don't need an agent agents, bad,
self representation good.
This is a prime example,
of the fact, especially a quarterback, you got to have an agent,
you gotta have somebody who map
Without a strategy,
implements that strategy and gets
you paid and
at a certain point,
it's just
this is this is the the stream of decisions Lamar Jackson has
made and he has to take ownership
of it when he wonders, why?
He's at this point where he's yet. To get his life. Changing
multi-generational payday, he has responsibility for it. And
so back to our point
it's more likely. He sits out 20
23 and doesn't make anything this calendar year from playing
football, then hiring an agent but the best move for him would
be to hire an
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