Julio Jones holding out

[panthers55]

13 hours ago, ARSEN said:

What if he gets career ending injury?

Then he doesn't get paid the incentives. Look he can't hold out for 3 years so he is going to play on his current contract. The question is whether the Falcons can sweeten the pot without encouraging everyone to start holding out.

[cptx]

14 hours ago, Dave Gettleman's Shorts said:

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

 

13 hours ago, ARSEN said:

Woooow.  No way.

 

13 hours ago, Pejorative Miscreant said:

Don’t negotiate Aurthur

 

13 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

No, not really.

This will be the downfall if this league. 

They can't continue to pay out these outrageous individual contracts, and the teams paying them out, remain competitive. 

Julio Jones is a fantastic receiver, but no single receiver is worth that much money. 

A salery cap via position has to be looked at, or just do away with the salery cap all together. 

 

13 hours ago, KillerKat said:

don't see how any team would pay that

3-28...

 

Come on, y'all. Have some coffee, damn.

[OneBadCat]

12 hours ago, SOJA said:

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

There was a rumor before the draft on here that he was unhappy. Made sense they picked Ridley if they think it could go south.

[theDIRTYcode2]

Julio is a great receiver, top 2 in the league....but this is some bush league poo. Of all the years to pull this, you wait till you scored a grand total of 3 TDs. We always re-up our guys 1 year before they're due, not half way into a contract. You guys want to throw 2 #1's our way? I'd probably settle for a 1st and 3rd. 

[Jon Snow]

4 minutes ago, theDIRTYcode2 said:

Julio is a great receiver, top 2 in the league....but this is some bush league poo. Of all the years to pull this, you wait till you scored a grand total of 3 TDs. We always re-up our guys 1 year before they're due, not half way into a contract. You guys want to throw 2 #1's our way? I'd probably settle for a 1st and 3rd. 

You can keep him.  I hope your team gives him a big fat raise and cripples your cap but I suppose they will work something out.  Third leg Greg pulled something similar recently although he didn't hold out he got himself a nice raise with two years left on his contract.  It happens.

[mc52beast]

As of right now I think he’s the 6th highest paid WR. He should be asking for OBJ money and I hope he breaks the Falcons bank

[AggieLean]

Get your money, Julio!

[Biscuit]

Break the bank, Arthur!

 

[dpm0409]

10 minutes ago, Biscuit said:

Break the bank, Arthur!

 

That was so lucky....

[SingleMalt]

if this is how players negotiate now........

every QB in the league should be holding out after the Cousins and Garoppolo contracts.

[Cary Kollins]

Players have been holding out for years. This isn't new, it's just a lot of fun because it's Julio and the Failclowns.

An argument can be made that Julio signed the contract, so he should honor it and take the money he agreed to. The flipside to that is teams terminate contracts early all the time. It's just part of the game. Julio is worth much more than his current contract is paying him. Don't blink Julio!

[Ball4life]

Aaron Donald and David Johnson skipping mini camp as well. It’s not just Julio. 

[Davidson Deac II]

Not that they would, but if they cut him the cap savings are decent.

[TheRed]

How many of the huddlers here cheering on Julio eagerly lobbed dozens of torpedoes at Greg Olsen and Thomas Davis because they asked for a new contract? And neither of them actually held out.