Quote:The showing up late party doesn't bother me as much as when he sat out two years ago.  I just felt it was a slap in the face to the organization.  They gave him a huge contract, then when others passed him he wanted more.  Then he turns around and wants to talk about loyalty.

 

Life moves on, people will forget about what he said.

 

I actually have a different perspective on the holdout.  I think the mistake he made was not sitting out, but how long he did so.  When it became abundantly clear the team wasn't going to budge, he should have taken that as an opportunity to say he'd made his point, and that he was coming back.  He didn't.  He let it linger despite the fact that the owner, GM, and coach all said they weren't going to revisit his contract. 

 

Had he swallowed his pride and come back to work without making the team wait, he probably would have seen more good will from the team on the back end, although I still think they probably would have ended up where they are today.  The team was never going to match his salary demands, and letting the market make that determination was the smart move for the organization.

 

Regardless, MJD is now a Raider.  He can whine all he wants about how he was done wrong.  In the end, the Jaguars were extremely generous with him.  Hopefully he comes to that realization at some point.

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