(06-12-2022, 09:56 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(06-12-2022, 07:41 AM)Bullseye Wrote: How about...you know...we have Trevor Lawrence.  He's a talented player who has yet to reach his prime.  Why throw HIM out because the rest of the team is bad?  Why not, I dunno...add some talent around him to enable him and the team to flourish?

Naah.  We'd rather take the minimalist approach to football.

Talent?!?  Pssshhhh.  Who needs it?  All wee need is blind compliance!

You say guys like Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw once asked to be traded?!? John Riggins once held out an entire season om a contract dispute?!?  You mean those teams managed to keep all of those players?  Forget those examples.  Players aren't allowed to have minds of their own.

Naw, Trev isn't a cry baby and he isn't faking any injury.  He's more of a man than that, Trevor also wants to be here, Yawn and Ms. Ramsey didn't.  Huge difference, we were going to give Yawn much more than what he was worth and we were going to make the corner the highest paid in the league but his little feelings got hurt because his skin his to thin.  It's good to have guys with high character on top of being a good football player.

Trevor Lawrence has played all of one year.  While I don't think he would ever be deemed a malcontent, you have no idea how contract negotiations will unfold.  Typically, if QBs play well, they get what they want without pushback from fans or the team.  Given this team's history of screw ups, Lawrence's mind could change if the neolithic incompetence continues with this organization.  Don't take Lawrence's presence here for granted.  Other positional players get pushback for having the temerity to be hard negotiators or stand on principle about their worth. wholly irrespective of how productive they have been.  Ngakoue wasn't deemed a malcontent by anyone until the difficulty in contract negotiations became public.  MJD wasn't considered a malcontent until his contract negotiations became public, and he led the league in rushing.  DD was considered an upstanding person/player until he kept being franchised.  Brackens was trashed when he had a contract stalemate with the team and he's the team's all time leading sacker.

But continue to push for the team to refuse to pay productive players (instead of guys like Kirk and Zay Jones).  It's gotten us DAL for two straight years now.  Not just in the division...but in the league!  Congrats!

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