Julio Jones holding out

[pantherclaw]

3 minutes ago, RelaxImaPro said:

The salary cap is what makes the league perennially competitive.  The NFL would be a whole lot worse without it.

Tell that to the Cleveland Browns. Or any team in the Patriots division. 

I know exactly what the salery cap does. My age does grant me the wisdom to have seen the NFL. 

When receivers can get 20 + million a year, something is wrong.  The salery cap is imperfect. Not that I have hope that the owners and players can ever come to an agreement on a better version. 

[Pimpdaddy]

49 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

No, not really

...why, wise ass?

[Shocker]

1 hour ago, TheCasillas said:

called it.

[pantherclaw]

56 minutes ago, Pimpdaddy said:

...why, wise ass?

Guess you missed the point, as I wasn't bring a wise ass, and I wasn't being on board for the "let's cheer for anything bad for our divisional foes."

[SOJA]

the calvin ridley pick is starting to make a little more sense 

[jasonluckydog]

He should be paid at a minimum 45 milliona year and the falcons should change their name to the Atlanta Julios

[CatTower]

This is why Superbowl teams often become bad afterwards.  All the players that made up the team are looking to get paid. 

[London Loves Luke]

The amount of people missing the joke in this thread is crazy. @Dave Gettleman's Shorts 

[DaveThePanther2008]

Hold out all you want Julio.  You seemed pretty happy about your deal 3 years ago.  

Man up, you signed a contract.  Honor your contract.   If you wanted more damn money than maybe your agent should have negotiated a three year deal instead of a 6 yr deal.

Ain't no GM paying 28 million for a WR just ain't happening. 

[TheCasillas]

9 hours ago, Shocker said:

I don’t feel like digging at the moment, but I wrote a post about how Julio was going to do this, and I got a bunch of poo.

[Zaximus]

I can't blame the team.    Julio is banged up all the time and it's starting to wear him down with all these nagging little injuries, much like Megatron.    The only thing I'd do if I was them if put a ton of incentives in but I wouldn't change it, not right now.   

[RoaringRiot]

11 hours ago, Dave Gettleman's Shorts said:

Source: Julio Jones wants a 3 year, 28 million per year average contact.

Really disappointed by how many people responded to this post and missed the whole thing... I know it’s the off-season but get it together people. 

[shaqattaq]

12 hours ago, ARSEN said:

12 hours ago, panthers55 said:

All they have to do is give him an incentive laden deal for the year. If he goes all pro or the Falcons win the Superbowl he gets millions more. 1500 yards a million more. 125 catches- Cha ching... If the player is that good you got a deal and you can tell the rest of the team that if they put up top numbers like Julio each year then they can get some incentives too.

What if he gets career ending injury?

Then he still is the 8th highest receiver in the NFL. $47 million of his contract is guaranteed. I think he'll be OK if there's an injury. 

It's easy to see both sides of this, he signed a good deal at the time, but the only receiver that MIGHT be better is Antonio Brown, who's making $17 million a year, but only got $19 million guaranteed.  Bottom line, ATL will find a couple million dollars laying around to make their best player happy.

[Snake]

He needs to hold out till they pay him more than any other WR in the NFL. If they don't I hope he becomes a disruption.