the next guy up for a contract is Lamar Jackson,
Ravens quarterback did not hold out
showed up her training camp, but once you show up, you're there.
I don't want to get into the
details of the CBA, but if you're there and you leave
It's a lot harder to exert. Real leverage, they can if they
want play Ultra Hardball with you and shut you down for
the full year by sending out the
five-day letter. If you don't come back, that's it.
If they choose to, they can shut you down for the whole
year. Can't be traded. Can't play you're out now. What
a team really do that with a starting quarterback? I don't
know. But now that Lamar is there, the chances of him
walking out the door,
Are slim, but it could still happen
because again would, the Ravens truly shut him down for
the full year. If it came to that, but he's there,
will he not practice until he gets a deal? I think he
shouldn't practice until he gets a deal. And in the past
when Josh Allen did his contract, I said that Lamar
Jackson should take that
same document into the office of ravens GM. Eric, DeCosta
cross out Buffalo Bills, right? In Baltimore Ravens, cross out
Josh And right in Lamar Jackson, take that deal. That
was last year
then. DeShaun, Watson gets his deal with the Browns.
Same thing. Take that contract in cross out Browns, put in
Old Browns, Ravens, sorry. Miles cross out. DeShaun.
Watson put in Lamar Jackson will. Now now,
I'd flip it around.
Yeah, I'm DeCosta.
I take that Murray to help.
and I say,
Cross out Arizona. Cardinals Baltimore Ravens,
cross out collar Murray,
Lamar Jackson
that's how much better the Marie deal is for the team,
then the Watson deal is for the teams out there and we know
Steve Bisciotti
not a fan of the five-year full guarantee because he said so at
the league meetings after the Watson deal was done
so
Jackson not represented should be should be. And this isn't
always trying to help his agent friends. I just spent
Five minutes explaining. Why?
My willingness to tell the audience the truth will tend to
piss off the agents who are trying to make their deals look
better than they are. But I think every player needs to
have a good Agent who understands the market, who has
the relationships,
who can say to the team. The things that need to be said,
who understands the funding world, who understands
the other nuances in niceties. That's what every player needs,
and that's what they deserve.
Don't get hung up in the 1%. 2% 3% thing. You got to pay a fee
that's fine and it hurts when you have to write a check for
it. Instead of having it come out of your paycheck, try
paying quarterly taxes.
If you want to see some real pain,
when it's time to pay something that isn't taken out of your
check, they take it out of your check, it feels a lot
different. So I get it. And I think Lamar Jackson end of
the day. And I think Russell Okun, Richard Sherman, and most of
the other
players that don't have an agent.
It's all tamale about. Not Recognizing where the value
comes from owned by gotta pay this guy 123 percent. All he
did was make a few phone calls a few years ago, there's more
to it than that. And
this deal I think got more complicated for Lamar Jackson because
the Marie deal is so Team friendly and because the Watson deal
is so player-friendly
Jackson needs an advocate. Because what's your argument,
if your Lamar Jackson
And they bring in the calamari deal. Now I know it's a little
bit different because Jax is only got one year left before
the franchise tag dance.
But if you just tack
forty, six point 1 million with 100 million, fully guaranteed,
another 60 million guaranteed for injury. If you tack that
onto what Jackson is due to currently make this year? There
it is. There it is.
Maybe you make it forty six point two,
instead of 46.1 there it is. Easy to put it together
and from Jackson's perspective, Of
what's his response to it?
Other than now, I want more.
Well, why do you want more? Give us a formula. Why,
why should you get more than
Kyle and Marie? And I guess if I'm Lamar Jackson, I say, well,
I want to League MVP the year. He was a rookie and
Look at his playoff performance last year. Of course,
the response to that would be well, at least his team made
the playoffs.
So he was ten and two,
it was never be P candidate. Until he had an ankle injury.
There's, there's always going to be that back and forth. It's
always better to have someone other than the player being
the one engaged in that back and forth because you can piss off
the player,
you can fracture the relationship
when an agent isn't involved. It's a very delicate thing to do.
I deal with that all the time.
Frankly I don't have an agent, sometimes you gotta
Hard truths. Sometimes you got to say look this is Mike
the agent talking not Mike the client.
It can mess up the relationship
and now with the Murray deal and the Jackson deal
not Jackson Watson deal.
The Jackson deal. I think becomes
more complicated.