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

[BFritz21]

(08-02-2022, 12:00 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Not if he wants to sign someplace else next year.... that's the thing, if he's going to go for big money, especially guaranteed money, he has to ball out all season starting game one. Which is why we are not in a can't win scenaro, we are in a can't lose scenario. Screw his agent, he has to perform or retire or he will be playing for peanuts. And every year brings a whole new group of young safeties into the league looking to take his job.

But his agent might be saying “play hard but play safe and then just turn it on in the playoffs again,” and then Bates would half-ass the regular season again to avoid injury. It would hurt his chances for signing elsewhere next year but agents and players aren’t always the smartest in those things.