News: Now this is how you handle malcontents who don’t honor the contract they signed

[Alweezy]

Gee, by averaging 100 yards a game? By dropping 2000k total yards last year? By leading the league in rushing twice?

But yeah, cherrypick.

I'm really not sure why this guy is arguing with you about Touchdowns. When Zeke led the league in rushing, and was the Cowboys top receiver all year. And had at least 7 - 10 TDs vultured by either Dak running it in, Austin getting a jet sweep, or a PA fake to Zeke that led to a WR running wide open in the end zone for an easy TD.

Touchdowns is a terrible metric to judge Zeke's value to this offense. Almost criminal.

 

[Cmac]

Feed Zeke now Jerry!!!

 

[Melonfeud]

Again, people like you need to educate themselves. Teams have a contractual right to terminate the contract early. Players don’t have a right to hold out. But no matter how many times your misconceptions in this regard are corrected you continue to trot out this garbage.

*now, that's some "bread&butter",,, right there.

 

[jnday]

65% of his contract was a cash advance so that cannot be affected much by a 6 game suspension. He lost 6 games worth of checks + legal fees

The big thing was the suspension meant the salaries for 2018 and 2019 (totaling $3.853 million) would no longer be guaranteed against a career-ending injury.

They could file a junction with the NFL and Zeke would have to pay a little over 4 million in terms of the signing bonus + fines. Jerry's getting old + he ran his mouth last year about how "ohh Gurley is the starting point" and "we already have the money allocated for zeke" so I doubt he's gonna doing anything. This holdout was partially his fault (a more tightly run organization this wouldn't of happened)

Thanks for posting this.

 

[jnday]

Not really.

Do away with the salary cap, then maybe.

The NFL could look at all of the major sports and borrow ideals that would stop some of the crazy contracts that they are giving out. I know other sports has higher contracts , but they also have salary caps that helps manage those contracts.

 

[jnday]

I totally disagree. We played Smash Mouth football. Why because we had the youngest starting defense in the league and we didn't want to overexpose them. When they turn Prescott loose in the fourth quarter he was nothing but brilliant. Make no mistake who the leader of this team is. The team Elliott took himself out of the games more times last season than I care to remember. Prescott had those scores without Elliott even on the field

I don’t know what game you are referring to, but I have seen Dak do very well in the 4th quarter of several games. Those games was out of reach for the Cowboys and the defenses was letting Dak burn up the last few minutes of the time clock because there was no way that Dak could bring them back in such a short time.

 

[Section446]

Unfortunately, both teams will suffer as much as the players will.

 

[Melonfeud]

Thanks for posting this.

*oh,yes! That's the "suspension/guaranteed" part that I'd briefly glanced at,while hurdling over it,in my frantical searching for some form of forcible leverage to be employed in bringing this malcontent back into t.c. with his issues unresolved*

 

[JD_KaPow]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/09/01/chargers-g-m-no-new-contract-for-melvin-gordon/

Jerry should take notes. Can’t let the inmates run the asylum.

The Chargers are notoriously cheap and petty penny-pinchers and it has set them back many times, plus they have a bad reputation among players. They've gone longer without reaching the championship game and SB than Dallas has. But hey, sure, emulate their approach.

 

[MyUserName]

The NFL could look at all of the major sports and borrow ideals that would stop some of the crazy contracts that they are giving out. I know other sports has higher contracts , but they also have salary caps that helps manage those contracts.

Well then, if the cap stays then I’ll continue to side with ownership. As a fan I care about having the BEST TEAM, so I could care less if Zeke is the highest paid RB, especially if by giving him that money hurts the teams chances of signing it’s other stars.

Again, team first...player second.

 

[LittleD]

Feed Zeke now Jerry!!!

Starve Zeke now, Jerry. Time to show who's boss and who is the employee.

 

[DuncanIso]

Again. The "honor the contract" thing is total garbage.

For example, we signed Hurns to a two year 12 mill deal. We cut him after a year.

Yet no one is crying about how the team didn't honor the contract.

Agree.

BTW, Hurns was making more $$$ than Zeke..

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Those words kill your argument.

No, this is what you are saying in an attempt to try and salvage yours. I know he got paid when he left. I just don't remember how much it was. Do better.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

In some cases yes.
In some cases no.

Situational intelligence is paramount.
The NFL is not like anyone's workplace so you can't treat it as such.

People can say this sets a precedence, but it really doesn't.
Talent and agents have been exploring and exploiting this for years.

I'm on both sides, as weird as that sounds.
I'd like to expound upon this further, but I'm hiccuping like cray and the In-Laws are about to show up for some home-made din.

We've seen two backs that could be considered in the same class as Zeke get paid less money then the Girley contract now. I think the market has been reset. Jerry should take notes.

 

[birdwells1]

No, this is what you are saying in an attempt to try and salvage yours. I know he got paid when he left. I just don't remember how much it was. Do better.

You should take your own advice, Hurns got nothing when he was cut 1 year after signing a 2 year contract. If you are going to argue your point so strongly then attach a link for Pete sake, instead of "I believe" or "i don't recall."

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

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You should take your own advice, Hurns got nothing when he was cut 1 year after signing a 2 year contract. If you are going to argue your point so strongly then attach a link for Pete sake, instead of "I believe" or "i don't recall."

Wow. Seriously? OK, but if I do that, you gonna admit you are wrong or just slink away?

 

[Hoods]

Again. The "honor the contract" thing is total garbage.

For example, we signed Hurns to a two year 12 mill deal. We cut him after a year.

Yet no one is crying about how the team didn't honor the contract.

That contract allowed the team to cut him. Contracts have termination provisions (with specific negotiated remedies in place in event of a termination), which the Cowboys exercised. How many times we do need to explain this to you guys?

 

[kskboys]

Again. The "honor the contract" thing is total garbage.

For example, we signed Hurns to a two year 12 mill deal. We cut him after a year.

Yet no one is crying about how the team didn't honor the contract.

They did honor the contract.

 

[Darthkuriboh]

The way fans side with teams on this issue instead of the players is so, so backwards.

not really. most of us realize that, in the end, the players can be replaced, but the owners can't. We side with the side that should ALWAYS win.

 

[kskboys]

The way fans side with teams on this issue instead of the players is so, so backwards.

I'd say the opposite is true.