That statement is funny in how seriously not true it is...
Weapons at the disposal of a draft pick include 1) training camp holdout, 2) signing a series of one year tenders, and 3) re-entering the next year's draft.
Options 2 and 3 are pyrrhic in nature. If you hold out the full year and re-enter, your rep goes to **** and your draft standing probably gets severely downgraded. If you sign a series of one year tenders you transfer ALL injury risk onto yourself, with no cushion.
Option 1 is basically their only weapon that keeps teams from running rough shod all over them in negotiations...and make NO mistake that is exactly what Miami is doing to Jason Allen. The market has clearly been set at a 5 year contract, and Nick Saban brazenly says he doesn't care what other clubs do he only cares what his club does. They're asking for a 6 year deal even though the rest of the clubs picking around us have all given 5 year deals. That's running rough shod over the player right there.
From the team's point of view, the player holding out is just one player. The team has many more players and can easily replace the holdout with someone else who maybe isn't quite as good but is still workable.
From the player's point of view, where is he going to get money if not from the team? The team controls his entire financial destiny.
Way too MUCH power? Rookies practically have none.
