Jaguars RB Maurice Jones-Drew holding out for new deal

Stone85 · Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 2053 Location: Florida

He's already making 4.5 million though?
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Bad meets Evil · Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Posts: 1376 Location: Duval

Gene Smith said he expects him to play out his contract. Also, according to Tania mojo may hold out into the regular season.
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deuces22wild · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 5689

Good for him. He deserves to be paid way more than he is getting now. What he has done with trash around him is nothing short of amazing.

PAY THE MAN!
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vikingsrule · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:37 am Post subject:

Babylon · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 930

A player should always hold out when they overperform their contract, smart man. As a RB especially, he can expect to fall off a cliff in the next few years, so get paid now while you can.

DrawABlank · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 1755 Location: London, UK

From the team's angle:
- He signed a 5 year $31m contract. So $6.2m / year. At that point he had never had more than 200 carries a year so the Jaguars were not sure if he could carry the load.

- There is little point in adding more than one extra year to his deal (when this contract finishes he will be a 29 year old RB with 2100 career carries), and no other Jacksonville player is making more than $7m/yr over their contracts, so he is very close to the top earners already despite signing his deal 3 years ago.

From MJD's angle:
- He's the best player on the team, he's the face of the franchise, they aren't in cap trouble, and the offense will be in major trouble without his services.

- The gameplan will be to feed him enough carries that he will be washed up by the end of this deal. Why shouldn't he get more money now?

Conclusion
This isn't the Bears with Forte (where sympathies are all in one direction). Both sides have reasonable points of view. Unfortunately, I can see this one turning into a long holdout and a major distraction during camp.

scar988 · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 28738 Location: Charleston, SC

the Jaguars have like 20M in cap space... Pay the man.
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RuskieTitan · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:15 am Post subject:

Excellent. I don't mind this holdout at all.
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vikingsrule · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:21 am Post subject:

YlionsY · Joined: 28 Apr 2008 Posts: 14017

He needs to be paid. He could possibly be done in a few years and he deserves to get the money.

I know they want him to play out his current contract but the Jags could run him into the ground the next two years and cast him off after that. He'll be the 30 year marker.

While I understand the Jags point of view, they are being cheap with the face of the franchise.
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DaSteeleboy · Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 666

So what do you think guys? $150 Million contract just because he's the best at his position?
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