Sean Lee = Opposite of the modern-day ring brats of the NBA

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http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cow...ng-with-cowboys-to-chase-after-a-championship

It's so refreshing to see a guy TAKE LESS money and STAY with his team in order to chase a championship.

Eat your heart out Durant... LBJ... Wade... Bosh.

Sean Lee, the anti-ring-brat.

 

[SHAMSzy]

ummm what??

this is a terrible analogy

sean lee is probably our 3rd best linebacker & 99% chance he won’t play 16 games

 

[CCBoy]

Sean Lee taking the pay cut, just elevated the Dallas linebacker group to the best in the NFL.

He now adds to:

...Vander Esch recorded 102 solo tackles (140 total) in 2018. He ended the year as the third highest tackler in the entire league despite only playing the 36th most snaps among linebackers (754), per Pro Football Focus (PFF).

But Vander Esch is not just a run-stopping linebacker. He also excels at playing in coverage. Vander Esch grabbed two interceptions and also added seven pass deflections to his resume. To put that level of production in perspective, the entire defense only managed to intercept opposing quarterbacks nine times.

The young player, nicknamed the “Wolf Hunter”, is now a fan favorite of Cowboys’ nation. For years the Cowboys were one bad hamstring away from having a glaring weakness in the front seven. Heading into 2019, Dallas now has the best linebacking core in the NFL with Vander Esch’s consistency to hold the unit together...

https://thelandryhat.com/2019/03/10/dallas-cowboys-ranking-top-5-players/

 

[Questfor6]

http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cow...ng-with-cowboys-to-chase-after-a-championship

It's so refreshing to see a guy TAKE LESS money and STAY with his team in order to chase a championship.

Eat your heart out Durant... LBJ... Wade... Bosh.

Sean Lee, the anti-ring-brat.

Wrong KD took less last yr to win a ring, Boogie & Brook Lopez took basement money this yr to win one.

 

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ummm what??

this is a terrible analogy

sean lee is probably our 3rd best linebacker & 99% chance he won’t play 16 games

Think you mighta missed the point.

Give me another try?

The point is about character. Not impact.

 

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Wrong KD took less last yr to win a ring, Boogie & Brook Lopez took basement money this yr to win one.

You caught half of my post.

The other half matters, too.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

It’s a good look for Sean, but it’s probably best to compare him to David West or someone, lol. If Sean Lee was still at the height of his powers like 26 year old pre-Heat LeBron, he’d be gone already.

 

[Number1]

http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cow...ng-with-cowboys-to-chase-after-a-championship

It's so refreshing to see a guy TAKE LESS money and STAY with his team in order to chase a championship.

Eat your heart out Durant... LBJ... Wade... Bosh.

Sean Lee, the anti-ring-brat.

do you think thy gave Lee a choice?

 

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do you think thy gave Lee a choice?

He could have went elsewhere.

 

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It’s a good look for Sean, but it’s probably best to compare him to David West or someone, lol. If Sean Lee was still at the height of his powers like 26 year old pre-Heat LeBron, he’d be gone already.

Ring brats are players who go to other teams for the specific purpose of giving themselves a primo chance to get a ring.

West doesn't qualify.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Ring brats are players who go to other teams for the specific purpose of giving themselves a primo chance to get a ring.

West doesn't qualify.

So pretty much every free agent not solely motivated by money? What else is there?

 

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So pretty much every free agent not solely motivated by money? What else is there?

There is nothing honorable about what Kevin Durant did.

There is nothing honorable about what Wade, Bosh and LBJ conspired to do.

There is everything honorable about what Sean's doing.

If nothing else, we ought to be able to agree it's a totally different attitude and mindset.

 

[Number1]

Ring brats are players who go to other teams for the specific purpose of giving themselves a primo chance to get a ring.

isn't Lee's stated purpose a title ring ? is staying for one all that different from leaving for one?

 

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isn't Lee's stated purpose a title ring ? is staying for one all that different from leaving for one?

Yes. And yes.

Let me try this way.

If Sean left to go to New England, then he'd be a ring brat... if Tom Brady was about 10 years younger, he'd be a ring brat in the way that Durant is a ring brat.

 

[DoctorChicken]

I don't ever criticize a player for chasing a ring or chasing cash. A ring is great but cash pays the bills.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Not much of a choice on Lee's part, rework the deal or get cut. It's doubtful he would make as much, even after the reworking of his contract, with another team and it's also debatable how many teams would make a run for an oft injured LB on the wrong side of 30. If Lee really thought he could still make $7+ million and start for another contender, he probably wouldn't have opted to rework his contract and let Dallas cut him.

 

[beware_d-ware]

Loyalty is a two way street or it's nothing. I will never give a player crap about "not being loyal" to a team that would cut them the minute they blow their ACL or the dollars no longer work out.

 

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I don't ever criticize a player for chasing a ring or chasing cash. A ring is great but cash pays the bills.

Mine is a different take

I don't criticize a player chasing cash. There's a limited amount of time in that kind of career. You've got to capitalize while you can. And players don't enter the Hall of Fame on the basis of their salaries.

Practically guaranteeing yourself a ring in the way some of these have done is a cop out.

 

[408Cowboy]

There is nothing honorable about what Kevin Durant did.

There is nothing honorable about what Wade, Bosh and LBJ conspired to do.

There is everything honorable about what Sean's doing.

If nothing else, we ought to be able to agree it's a totally different attitude and mindset.

No offense but you sound like a spurned lover

 

[mldardy]

http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cow...ng-with-cowboys-to-chase-after-a-championship

It's so refreshing to see a guy TAKE LESS money and STAY with his team in order to chase a championship.

Eat your heart out Durant... LBJ... Wade... Bosh.

Sean Lee, the anti-ring-brat.

Yeah Durant, LBJ, Wade, Bosh all future HOFers with multiple rings, Eat your heart out for Sean 'waste of a roster spot, always injured' Lee.