The End of Bates?

[fredtoast]

(03-06-2022, 08:24 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: Bad feeling if they franchise tag him, he’ll half ass the regular season again

It makes no logical sense.  Players are supposed to play BETTER in their contract year.  Jessie had nothing to gain by pouting and not playing well.  But something was obviously off with his game this year.  And didn't he even publicly admit that his play suffered because his head was not in the right place over contract issues (or something vaguely similar to that)?

So even though it sounds crazy I almost agree with Booth on this.