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David Deacon

AD agents may be have an agenda to set a record by a 25% -30% above the previous highest contract.

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I will tell you this. There is no one you can name who came up for a big "cash in, prime years" second contract who has had to settle for a 10% increase over THREE YEARS from the previous market high.

2nd contract amounts go up annually and so far none have grown at a rate of 3.3% a year...it's more like 12% a year. Or has been recently (I haven't done every contract across 10 years.)

So if you go back to the last "top player in the league" contract, Von Miller at 19 M in 2016, offering Donald 21 M means only a 3.3 % a year increase when everyone else at every other position gets the normal 12% a year increase.

And btw 25 M, which he is reportedly asking for and won't get, actually falls short of a 12% a year increase since 2016...that number would be more like 26.5 M. He's going to probably end up with 23-24 M, which is short of 26.5 M....and that means he's already conceding a lot.

If we know all that then Donald knows all that so him standing fast for what he's worth is just the obvious and natural thing to do.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2018 01:43PM by zn.