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I Never Understood Why Players Holdout

Rocky Raccoon

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You want money... ok. However, why not go to camp and start working for the upcoming season while your contract gets worked out? I would think reporting to camp would help your contract situation. I think its stupid to sit at home crying about your contract while your teammates are busting their a$$ for the upcoming season. Bottom line, why not practice while your working on your contract?
 
the funny part is the fact they try to tell me (the fan) that the owners are greedy, however they are taking money away from other players.
 
Well, it wouldnt be a holdout if they went to a camp. Randy McMichael is doing what you said i think. He has made it clear that he wants a new contract, but he will play until he gets one.
 
They hold out for the same reasons that some physicians don't sign onto PPO plans that want to cut their reimbursment. That reason is that they have worked too hard for too long to get to this point, and they aren't going to take less than fair market value.
 
The reason why they dont go to camp because if they get hurt and dont have a contract they dont get squat. I hate it when Rookies hold-out because you are not even proven yet and you want all this cash.
 
VanDolPhan said:
Errr I thought the rules state that you can't have your players to training camp without a contract.
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Im talking about renegotations of current contracts
 
Because if a player goes to camp without a contract, he could sustain a career ending injury. They want that money. Particularly the guaranteed money because no matter what happens at camp then, they are set for life.
 
I'll bet dollars to donuts that Wayne makes considerably more money a year off the Fins than all the players combined. Guess, why all that money comes in? The players are the stars, and if there's that much money to be made off of there potential pain, they are intitled to how much they can get. If it was truly breaking the bank, then there would be no NFL.If you want to argue if the salary cap should be higher, then you'd be right. Its why teams are shopping their RBs. The cap raises 5% and rookie signings go up 20%. It doesn't take an economist to see that causes a league recession.
 
KB21 said:
They hold out for the same reasons that some physicians don't sign onto PPO plans that want to cut their reimbursment. That reason is that they have worked too hard for too long to get to this point, and they aren't going to take less than fair market value.
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Wouldn't that comparison really be more like Ty Law not signing anywhere because he's holding out for what he believes is fair market value?

I'd think players not reporting to camp would be like doctors signed up with the plan refusing all of that plan's clients starting on X date when the agreement requires a longer notification period or something like that.

It also seems to me that this isn't a great analogy because to my knowledge, PPOs don't cut doctors from their plan while football teams do cut players.
 
pwn3dyo said:
Well, it wouldnt be a holdout if they went to a camp. Randy McMichael is doing what you said i think. He has made it clear that he wants a new contract, but he will play until he gets one.
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randy will get his contract next year and he also knows now that on what happened with the whole assault thing will not help if he didnt show up to camp, not that he wasnt goign to show up it just makes things worse for his side of the deal
 
FinsAreLife said:
randy will get his contract next year and he also knows now that on what happened with the whole assault thing will not help if he didnt show up to camp, not that he wasnt goign to show up it just makes things worse for his side of the deal
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If Randy gets his contract next year, there is less of a chance it will be with Miami. That may be okay, too. I'm just saying...
 
Jimmy James said:
If Randy gets his contract next year, there is less of a chance it will be with Miami. That may be okay, too. I'm just saying...
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chances are he will be franchised
 
Dol-Fan Dupree said:
chances are he will be franchised
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But will we have the cap room to pay him the top 3 or is 5 veterans' TE salary next year?
 
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