Manziel Hiring Rosenhaus- Is He Stupid?

[Benton]

(03-21-2016, 11:37 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: The hate comes from Rosenhaus being a prick and trying to strong-arm teams into giving them what he wants.

Yes, it's a business, but he has no ethics about it and goes for the kill.

The movie Jerry McGuire was based off of Rosenhaus, so you don't need to look much further than Tom Cruise's comments while he's typing up that letter and having the life-changing realization to realize why Rosenhaus is a dick.

His job is to represent guys against multi-billion dollar teams. His job is to get his guy as much financial well being as possible, and he's competing with dozens of other agents and sometimes hundreds of other players for those dollars. His job is to make sure his guy gets what his guy thinks his guy is worth.

There's no strong arming in negotiations, at least not like these. Teams can just shrug and go sign someone else if their only issue is the dollar. Rosenhaus can't just cay "give my guy 20% of your cap, or you don't have a team next year."