Twitter: Jaylon's Packer salary is $770,000

[GimmeTheBall!]

Memo to Jerry: You overpaid for this scrub. Next: restructuring Zeke's contract because what if Zeke has burned his last calories through 4 games and will sputter down the home stretch?

 

[TwentyOne]

Seriously this is a shocker for me. And i am not happy for him either.

The guy is such a cancer to every locker room. Such a cheap self-promoter.
I wish him all the best when it comes to his health. But the worst when it comes to earn money.

He is even worse than Jeff Heath. And that guy would warm the bench on every triple A college team.

 

[jazzcat22]

Were going to pay him to play for the packers lol

Maybe he will sabotage them.
Like a double agent spy. But even he won’t know he is doing it.

 

[willia451]

I have no more words on the Jaylon Smith question. At least none that won't get me perma-banned.

Thank God he's finally gone.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

So he is getting about 5-6 million for the rest of the year

Of course, the Pack will pay him the minimum because Jaylen gets paid the same either way, as the Cowboys are on the hook for the rest.

Given he's pocketing that much, it only makes sense he'd go a place where coaches will play him a bunch so he can cash in *next* year

 

[BHendri5]

Not paid enough

 

[Knotamus]

Blah, Blah, Blah.. Jerry this, Jerry That..

I realize that some on this site have to always have someone to blame for anything that goes wrong. And the easiest and lamest excuse is “blame Jerry!”

I didn’t hear many people complaining ab Jaylons contract after his ProBowl season.. na.. bc most GMs would have done the same deal, but Jerry doesn’t have a crystal ball, so NO ONE could have foreseen Jaylon’s drastic decline after that season. Most believed he was just scratching the surface of his potential and would only get better.

Unfortunately that didn’t happen.. but go ahead if you must, blame Jerry. Just know, hindsight is awesome.

 

[Daillest88]

Let’s just be happy he’s gone

 

[buybuydandavis]

Can’t believe his contract didn’t have offset language. What was Jerry thinking?

Back in the day Jaylon's contract looked team friendly. In retrospect it was clear pretty quickly that Jaylon and his agent came to Jerry with that early team friendly deal because they knew about Jaylon's physical regression before the team did.

 

[gimmesix]

I thought he'd get a little more, in the $2 million range. That's a really good deal for them if he ends up starting, which I think he will.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Let’s just be happy there gone

 

[GMO415]

Dudes making $7.2 million this year alone from us and people are shedding tears for this dude?

Most people here will never make that in a lifetime!

 

[DuncanIso]

 

[morat1959]

That's one way to look at it, but another way is the Cowboys are paying him to play for the Packers (lol)

So what. He’s their liability now, not ours.

 

[morat1959]

All the money Jerry's wasting on bad contracts, he could have spent on a GM's salary.

Nailed it!

 

[morat1959]

yup.

brilliant move by the Pack.

not so brilliant by Dallas.

we are on the hook for 6.8 mill in dead cap next season.

Dead weight gone. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. They made the right move.

 

[morat1959]

Seriously this is a shocker for me. And i am not happy for him either.

The guy is such a cancer to every locker room. Such a cheap self-promoter.
I wish him all the best when it comes to his health. But the worst when it comes to earn money.

He is even worse than Jeff Heath. And that guy would warm the bench on every triple A college team.

Well said!

 

[Bullflop]

Today, Jaylon is a backup with Green Bay.

Maybe they'll be happy with his abilities.

May his new home give him success.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Even the Packers are not dumb enough to pay him hardly anything, much less waaaay overpay him the way Jerry and some fans here like to overpay for some Cowboys players.

And we wonder why we have not even sniffed a conference championship game in 26 years???

 

[LittleD]

I thought he'd get a little more, in the $2 million range. That's a really good deal for them if he ends up starting, which I think he will.

You had to know that GB was only going to give him vet min salary. Jerry has to pick up the remainder of his 7.2mil contract for this year which was guaranteed for injury back last year. Jerry's fav's know exactly
how to pick his pockets. At least Stephen was looking out for next year. Jaylon is now just a "paycheck" player week to week.