(06-11-2019, 12:41 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(06-11-2019, 12:25 PM)mikesez Wrote: The owners, and the players, and the fans, all have more important things to worry about than if a piece of paper got "violated."
The contract explains what will be paid out as services are rendered over a course of years. If services are not rendered, the payouts change. There is no honor or dishonor here. This is not like a marriage. It's not even like a mortgage.

This is a contract that stipulates how much a player will be compensated for his services. No matter how much you may want to diminish that, it is a contract very much like any other. If Yannick doesn’t provide those services, he may be sued (admittedly unlikely). It has happened to other players. 

I think you, and others, may believe I take this more seriously than I do. I don’t think this makes Yannick a bad person, and I don’t care as much as some may believe. I just don’t understand the mindset players have where they believe that not showing up to work shouldn’t inspire a team to hand them more money.

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(06-11-2019, 12:34 PM)jagshype Wrote: But he is fullfilling the contract by being fined. 
The fines are a part of the contract. Yan is doing what he can within the structure of the contract. Its the same as a team cutting a player and being "fined" by dead cap.

Being fined isn’t fulfilling the contract. That’s a result of not fulfilling it. They’re mandatory practices. The contract presumably requires the player to attend or else be fined. That’s like saying a player is fulfilling a contract the day after signing his contract because any consequence of that is stipulated in it.

It's not a difficult mindset to understand. If you were being grossly underpaid relative to your worth I'm sure your plan of action would be to remedy it asap. 

Now add in the short term + health hazards of an NFL players career (+ the actual spirit of contracts at play) and it's pretty easy to see sitting out is a good option (and it's expected by the team).

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