Visionman
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Quan pushed all in with a bad hand. Now appears Poles is calling his bluff…
Or they are getting close on a contract or trade
Think this is overblown. If you’re the highest bidder and show the player the money, they will sign. They won’t care about past transgressions with other players as long as they’re taken care ofPotential?
No better way to tell potential free agents to fuck off than treat your current upcoming FA players like trash.
We're going to be the team giving out those Kirk deals if we start fining roquan. Players will always side with him. Would be a very bad look.
This post is idiotic. FA's don't give a shit what transpired 1 or 2 years ago, with a guy they don't even know.Has the great treatment of Zach Miller resulted in a boon of free agents begging to play for the Bears? As free agents, 4 or more years into their career, they are signing a deal that very well may be their last as a football player, they aren't concerned with what may happen 4 years down the road.Potential?
No better way to tell potential free agents to fuck off than treat your current upcoming FA players like trash.
We're going to be the team giving out those Kirk deals if we start fining roquan. Players will always side with him. Would be a very bad look.
Not trueThis move is nothing more than the Bears way of signaling Roquan to stop with the silliness and to get this thing done. This is only going to cost him the $2.9k/week veteran per diem. Hardly a punitive move. More of a nudge to get back to negotiations instead of positioning in the media.
People are way overreacting here. Roquan is going to get his contract. Like all protracted NFL contract negotiations, it always comes down to a dollars¢s thing on the guarantees. He'll be practicing by Tuesday...
Don't think so. Why would Roquan want the guy who represents the people he's negotiating with to represent him as well in those negotiations?I'm leaning towards Armstrong representing him as his agent and all parties working out a deal. A player without an agent in this day and age is never a good idea, Smith is probably realizing that, we're all saying how cheap bears are by why dosen't Smith want to pay an agent to negotiate a contract for him?
I think the Bears are trying to get Roquan Smith to understand that if you factor in everything from cap space going forward to the role Smith has already carved out on the Bears that makes him uniquely valuable to this franchise, that the Bears are the team that is going to offer him the most money. The problem is Smith has no agent so he can't know what his value around the league is, and if he is stubbornly just refusing anything other than the deal he wants well...the Bears eventually are just going to decide its not worth it.Don't think so. Why would Roquan want the guy who represents the people he's negotiating with to represent him as well in those negotiations?
Oops, my bad. You're correct. It looks like the 2020 CBA made fines for unexcused training camp absences mandatory....Not true
Skipping training camp comes at a hefty cost with players facing fines of $40,000 a day for players on a rookie contract and $50,000 a day for players on a veteran contract.
I think the Bears are trying to get Roquan Smith to understand that if you factor in everything from cap space going forward to the role Smith has already carved out on the Bears that makes him uniquely valuable to this franchise, that the Bears are the team that is going to offer him the most money. The problem is Smith has no agent so he can't know what his value around the league is, and if he is stubbornly just refusing anything other than the deal he wants well...the Bears eventually are just going to decide its not worth it.
thats if you dont show upOops, my bad. You're correct. It looks like the 2020 CBA made fines for unexcused training camp absences mandatory....
"If this isn't to sign or trade him and they start fining him, this has the potential to blow up in Poles face."
How? Roquan is still under contract..
I don't think Poles cares if that's the case. I don't see it as blowing up in his face. He's rightfully pisssed and hurt, screw Roquan and fine him. Poles did the guy a solid by putting him on PUP and Smith says all that negative crap
Oh I think they certainly have already, though definitely not the way you are imagining.Because players and agents will take note of this.