07-16-2022, 02:12 PM
(07-16-2022, 09:08 AM)grampahol Wrote: Bates's agent seems to want to play a game of chicken with his career and it could all blow up in his face over it. I'm not saying it will, but if it does he wouldn't be the first player to try to play hardball with the billionaire class and lose. Team owners, including Mr Brown are in that class and don't like to lose to little peons like mere football players. They tend to close ranks when someone tries to strong arm them as they see it and essentially blackball them out and suddenly said player is on the outside looking in. It's a really exclusive club. That aside I'm not sure Brown is going to play along with getting strong armed. Players all seem to want to close ranks for Bates so it's an odd type of situation we don't often see in Bengaldom.
I agree with this but if they are talented then they stay in the NFL at a pay cut much less than they were trying to get.
