khailil mack

[Daly]

If you think it’s the NFL players that are taking advantage of the NFL owners you are not paying attention.

Yeah, it is practically criminal how the system is set up against the players. In fact, it probably is literally criminal.

No player in today's league should ever feel sorry for any tactic they employ to get every last $$ they can. I have no problem with any player on a rookie deal (especially a first rounder who is forced to sign a 5 year contract at a set price) who is way outperforming that contract to try to do anything in their power to get payed.

The real interesting part of this story is that despite putting up such big sack numbers the last few years the Raiders aren't willing to sign Mack to a long term deal. It would definitely be interesting to know the real reason why. In fairness the Raiders defense did suck pretty bad last year even with Mack having an OK season numbers wise, so maybe they felt his actual impact on the game was less than the numbers would suggest.

This.

Baseball has it right with the arbitration system. In football it’s “fuck you play it out and good luck not getting hurt”. If this was baseball he would have hit arbitration last year and the two would sit down and the team would correctly say you haven’t put in enough time to break the bank.... but we know you are obviously worth more than 1m. Play this year at 4M and next year at 7M and then you can break the bank and if you get catistophicaly hurt you got $11M and never have to work another day in your life.

There are a million stories like it but Javon Walker back in the day got so so so so fucked over. The guy signed a deal for the packers as a first round pick but played like an all pro out the gate. Was the best WR in the NFL and the packers and Brett farce begged him not to hold out. He caved and tore his ACL. Here’s a guy who would have guaranteed himself $20M+ by holding out. Instead he got a min deal the next year and was out of the league.