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BobCarl
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Kind of Blue/Gold
I question this. Why draft him if you aren't prepared to extend a standard contract? Why should the draft pick be expected to make an exception that no other player in his draft slot has, just because of some team's peculiarity and idiosyncracy?.
According to this USA TODAY article, the contract Bosa was offered IS standard.
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The No. 1 overall picks from the past two drafts, Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams and Jameis Winston of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, like the player selected after Bosa, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, had portions of their signing bonuses deferred.
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Condon is tough to deal with and has represented a lot of NFL players, and all owners know him.
initially my thinking was that Bosa is being stupid ... but Condon won't represent stupidity, there must a valid business issue here, and it probably has something with the deferred signing bonusses. This issue is probably not an exclusive "Bosa vs Chargers" issue, but likely more about the NFL players vs the NFL owners.
Jim Thomas from the St. Louis Post Dispatch knows Condon very well, I'd love to hear Thomas' thoughts about what and why Condon is doing this.
Yeah, I brought up Condon, I forgot he represented Bradford.
MY understanding, players in and around Bosa's slot EITHER made a concession on the deferred signing bonus OR the offset language, not BOTH.
SD is unique and unprecedented in that respect, FOR A PLAYER THIS HIGH. I get it is how they have rolled in the past with lower picks (no higher than #11 since the new labor agreement in 2011).