Guiness
08-15-2022, 11:06 AM
Dude rightfully been in the news an awful lot lately!
Quite the rumour coming out that he ghosted the team after getting his big contract 4 years ago. Story goes that he regularly pulls a vanishing act, and has been doing that since he signed in 2018
“Once he left that press conference, nobody heard from him for weeks and weeks,” recalled one member of that coaching staff, according to Silver. “He didn’t return calls, he didn’t return texts — he basically just vanished. And we were looking at each other going, ‘What just happened?’”
Not what you want from the starting QB that just signed what was at the time the highest value per year contract in the NFL!
Aside from that, I think the current situation will push players and agents to push for more rolling guarantees on long term contracts. I can't believe it costs the team nothing to hold onto him as long as they have, and I think as long as they cut him before they take the field for their opener, they owe him nothing more!
49ers have known since January he was not part of their plans and wouldn't be on the team for 2022. If his contract had a trigger to guarantee his annual salary early in the league year, he would've hit the open market then instead of this silly dance that likely results in signing a backup deal. That won't be lost on others in future negotiations.
Quite the rumour coming out that he ghosted the team after getting his big contract 4 years ago. Story goes that he regularly pulls a vanishing act, and has been doing that since he signed in 2018
“Once he left that press conference, nobody heard from him for weeks and weeks,” recalled one member of that coaching staff, according to Silver. “He didn’t return calls, he didn’t return texts — he basically just vanished. And we were looking at each other going, ‘What just happened?’”
Not what you want from the starting QB that just signed what was at the time the highest value per year contract in the NFL!
Aside from that, I think the current situation will push players and agents to push for more rolling guarantees on long term contracts. I can't believe it costs the team nothing to hold onto him as long as they have, and I think as long as they cut him before they take the field for their opener, they owe him nothing more!
49ers have known since January he was not part of their plans and wouldn't be on the team for 2022. If his contract had a trigger to guarantee his annual salary early in the league year, he would've hit the open market then instead of this silly dance that likely results in signing a backup deal. That won't be lost on others in future negotiations.