If he's truly willing to sit out I guess he does, especially if he could play baseball (though might be in contract he cannot)....but, sure, the team could call his bluff and not like he's gonna just retire.
I just don’t understand him taking this stance now. The team has a couple more weeks to pick up a $29 M option for the following year. I guess in effect he is saying that $34 M over 2 years is not enough. Maybe they will blink, but the Bidwells aren’t exactly the smartest folks around. Perhaps that is what he is counting on.
The Players Union has to do a better job of reinventing the game of football. The problem is that only about 10-12 guys on a 53 man roster can afford to actually hold out long enough. So the players union has to try and make the roster around 17-22 people deep and then they can actually do something. The fact that they haven’t reinvented the game is totally on them.
The minimum salary in the NFL is $660k. If the players would get together they could damn sure work something out to be able to go a full season without pay. That’s what it would take to make real change. I personally think it’s the higher paid guys that have more power that don’t want to sacrifice the big numbers. The owners are always going to use that to their advantage.
And that’s the root of my position. The logic here is a cat chasing it’s tail. That condition of getting the whole 53 to that level is a pipe dream. And it’s impossible in the existing CBA ha. That’s why in my opinion it’s disingenuous to say “oh well, collectively bargain better”. They can’t. This is legitimately the best they can collectively do. That’s why I’m saying it’s paramount for a dude in Murray’s position to act when he is in a position of leverage. And it bothers me when people throw this back on the player especially when those people can seemingly see the same issues with this being slanted as what I’ve pointed out.
Because this is the way he maximizes his revenue. Why play for 14 mil a year when you can negotiate for 45 mil? You get the bag when you can. Isn’t that what we all do in our walks of life? We want to maximize our income and get paid relative to our value.
The not working out? I’m on board. Going for great reward will also entail risk. I’m saying the player has the right to weigh that and act. Disagree with the commentary from the peanut gallery. I think that’s dismissive of the facts on the ground in assessing this system.
The issue is he already collected 6 million for this coming season
This.
I’ll be tied up screaming at the Sixers on my TV
