specifically other quarterbacks looking for contracts five
years, fully guaranteed 230 million dollars. If your
calamari of the Cardinals are Lamar Jackson, the Ravens
you should be saying
I need the same thing.
I'm not in any trouble
and I'm a pretty good player. Especially Jackson the 2019 NFL
MVP and Kyla Marie who has been spectacular at times. Now
it's a tougher assessment and evaluation of Murray because he
doesn't really fit the normal mode. He's not very tall. He
relies a lot on his ability to run. You take that away and he
seems even smaller
than he is.
But he and the Cardinals trying to work out a deal and
the Ravens and Jackson trying to do the same.
Remember camps are opening soon and I think there's possibility
one or both guys can end up with the hold in that's become
popular
since the 20/20 CBA which made it harder
made it impossible. Frankly
for veteran players to hold out
and have Their fines later waived by the team that's been,
or had been a very common practice player holds out,
trying to get a better contract gets fine. Thirty forty
thousand dollars a day. I think it's up to 50 now.
And then,
when the Our shows up, it's all over and done and
don't tell anybody, but we're not going to collect your
fines. Now you have to for veteran players for anyone on
their second contractor Beyond. So
we see Holden's, we saw TJ W. Do it last year,
in Pittsburgh,
and it worked. He showed up, didn't practice, got his
contract, and tied, the single-season sack record. So
I could see, Marie or Jackson doing that already talked about
Marie in that capacity. I can see Jackson doing it as well.
Either way, the Clock is ticking. And I think with Marie
specifically wrote about this earlier date PFT,
the fact that we haven't heard anything.
In fact there hasn't been any outburst.
On a - front or anything that would suggest they're making
progress. I think they just decided we're going to keep
this quiet. We're going to work together. We're going to try to
get this done before July 26, when the
veterans report for Arizona, Cardinals, training camp.
And then we'll see
whether or not Murray's there where they has a new deal or
whether it ends up being a hold in, instead of a hold out where
he's present, but he's just not going to practice, he's not
going to set foot on a field until he gets
his contract and that
makes seat for not quarterbacks.
The real deadlines week, 14 quarterback, do you kind of
wanted to practice? I think the real deadline is start
a training camp to get this thing done. We'll see if
the Cardinals
and Marie can get it done. We'll see if the Ravens
and Jackson can get it done
and if they end up
with five years, fully guaranteed, the same way. Watson did,
see teams will want to say the Watson deal was an aberration
and one way to prove it's an aberration is
in the subsequent deals
to use. A different structure where there isn't that
five-year full guarantee and of all the starting quarterbacks
in the NFL who's teams shouldn't want five years,
fully guaranteed, it would be the Cardinals with Marie and
the Ravens with Jackson
because can you really project five years out?
That this guy definitely is going to continue to be our
quarterback
for a lot of quarterbacks. Yeah, you can feel pretty
confident about that.
Murray gets banged up, just enough loses a step or two.
All of a sudden, he's not the guy that you're paying him for
five full years Lamar Jackson an accumulation of the many
hits. He's taken
gets to a point where he's just not the same guy. Kind of like,
Cam Newton. All the hits. He took, he seemed indestructible.
He got to a point where just wasn't the same guy anymore.
So,
very interesting Dynamic and highly scrutinized contracts.
We will see if and when Marie and Jackson do their deals and
that Watson contract, a big factor. Will it be
an aberration? It will be the start
of a trend. For NFL
contract.