Why the **** is Jessie Bates not signed yet?

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(08-22-2022, 02:16 PM)casear2727 Wrote: Im not sure why this is so difficult? Bates is NOT playing chicken right now - negotiations are over.  We cant even discuss a new contract until after the season, his current delay is injury prevention only. 

And there is no doubt that Bates can get better terms elsewhere, we simply were not going to pay that with our other priorities. He will e here and all will be fine.  Dax has shown to be a player one year with Bates will be all he needs.

He WAS playing chicken and still is, IMCO, because he thinks he'll get a big deal with us next offseason or sign big with another team, and the only better terms he MIGHT get with another team is more guaranteed money, but will it be more total money?

I understand guaranteed is more important to some when thinking about a contract, but playing three years at the fifth highest average safety salary, which is reportedly the minimum of what we offered, means that he'd only have to play three years to get more money than any other safety has guaranteed.

I know he could get injured at any point, but you have to take what's probable, which is to not be injured, and just roll with it.