Is Shemar holding out?

[Essex Johnson]

(07-11-2025, 01:15 PM)spidey Wrote: I guess I'm having trouble understanding this.  It's easy to point the finger at the FO and go they're screwing it up again.  But what are they screwing up.  From what I understand, the language is the same as what 20+ other teams have in their contracts concerning guaranteed money that basically says don't be a dumbass and get into trouble otherwise we can withhold the guaranteed money.  I do realize that the FO didn't put this in any other contracts before this year but so what.  The Raiders had to pay a guy who went to jail for killing someone.  If I was the person in charge, I would want assurances as well that I wasn't going to have to give a person millions of dollars if they did something stupid and was unavailable to perform.
My question is why is Stewart fighting so hard against this?

agree and it is working similar but opposite way with 2nd round picks , texans set a precedent with guarantee of their 2nd round pick contract, but majority of teams don;t want to follow that, hear the bengals are trying to do what a majority of teams are already doing.  A great compromise would be to extend void from the year one year to at 2  possible 3 years (depending on rolling over 5th year)  instead of full contract