(02-20-2022, 11:12 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(02-20-2022, 09:35 AM)RicoTx Wrote: This sentiment that 'nobody wants to play for Jacksonville' is ridiculous.  If we outbid another team, high-priced free agents will play here.

The notion that money trumps everything is ridiculous and one sided. Maybe that is the case for some people, but not most people. Personally, you could offer me a billion dollars to move to NYC and I'd turn it down. There is no amount of money in the world to make me wanna live there. Money just isn't that important to me. It's nice, but as long as I have enough to pay my bills and have a little extra, I'd rather be happy and live far from the city. I bet winning matters a lot more to most players than who offers them the biggest contract.

So saying that no high priced free agent is going to want to come here isn't equally as one-sided...if not moreso?

I'm sorry, personal references are pretty invalid.  You aren't a highly paid professional athlete and never will be, so you're on the outside looking in when you make a reference like that.  Let alone the fact that all of the athlete's are individual and each one is going to feel differently about each situation.

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(02-20-2022, 11:29 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(02-20-2022, 11:22 AM)RicoTx Wrote: That's not addressing what I said at all.  If we ARE the highest bidder, they will come here.  We'll probably have to overpay more than another team, but they'll come.

It is. If we are the highest bidder and we overpay more than anyone else, I still don't think they will come here. If they have any options what so ever, I believe they will take a little less money and play for a better team with less organizational turmoil.

No it isn't.  You may be addressing that.  He didn't.

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