(04-25-2020, 10:00 PM)JNev Wrote: Can we all agree the ideal realistic scenario is Yann holds out of Training Camp, reports for the season and plays well enough before the trade deadline to get us something of value (something he wants and we want) with Leo playing great and when we let him walk we get a 3rd or 4th rd comp pick (assuming no one wants to trade a 4th or better for him in-season)?

I think the ideal realistic scenario is for someone like Caldwell or Tony Khan to sit down with Ngakoue and ask him, if it's not about money, what is it?  Ngakoue has claimed it was never about the money.  So what is it?  What did we do that caused this rift?  How can we apologize?  How can we do better in the future?  It's apparent that your salary demands are keeping you from being traded, so is there a face-saving compromise that we can adopt that will allow us to go forward happily on the same team?  

If it's not about money, then there has to be something we can do to make him feel better about things.  

If it is about money, then the last couple of months should persuade him that his salary demands are too high for the market.  

The current path they are on is surely going to be painful for both sides.  Both sides have to see this.  

They have to sit down and talk.  There's still a chance they can work things out.

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