Bosa/2017 draft

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(08-27-2016, 11:01 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: On the flip side, the kid is sitting out for what a few percent now of his money that he will actually all get since it is guaranteed .  I look at it this way, it is like paying a contractor 95 percent of the job before they even start the job and before you even see how well they do the job... and putting the 5% in escrow that is guaranteed and given after the 1st part of the job is complete.  How many contractors would walk away from that job 

Bosa looks pretty silly to me

All of them if every single other contractor (3rd overall picks in this case) got better terms than them.

Why would that contractor want to work with a miser who's trying to squeeze them of money that no other employer has ever done before? Plus the employer has a bad history.

Meanwhile accepting that contract means you are incapable of taking work from any other employer for 4-7 years. (4 years + 5th year option + 2 franchise tags). By the time you're finally able to work for someone else, you'll be old, your skills in decline.



Bosa looks fine to me. Remember, if you're a first round draft pick, the team that takes you and you sign, you can be their property for SEVEN years. Maybe he simply doesn't want to play for the Chargers? It worked out pretty well for Eli. He won two SB, and the Chargers haven't won shit.

Meanwhile the Chargers are coming off a 4-12 season, are trying to get public finance for a new stadium, and just lost their 3rd overall pick because they wanted to squabble over $500k-$1m that every other team in the NFL has given a pick that high.

Dude will get drafted next year, ball out, and have a better chance of actually winning something with a different team and still be perfectly okay financially for the rest of his life.