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AlbaNY_Ram
Should we write it off as coincidence that all of these headache negotiations are with CAA clients? Or is it possible that teams are being jerks with CAA clients because they know ahead of time the CAA is a royal pain to deal with? (In other words, do teams lay out difficult terms with CAA clients just so they have something to negotiate away, knowing that CAA is going to show up with difficult terms of their own?)
No it's not coincidence--BUT the story is not the agent alone. I would say these guys stand up to teams. Who knows how often things like this happen and the agent or player or both just live with it. But in every instance you listed it was completely plausible to say the team was causing issues. People will say that's more arguable in the case of the Rams, but I think the reported 21 M offer is genuinely low. Both sides have to budge on that one.
AND these are not the only contract disputes or even holdouts in the league.
So yeah leaving the Rams out of it for the time being, in the other 3 cases the TEAM caused the headache.
I won't tell this story so that in advance the team or the agency is in the wrong. I go case by case. If in these cases the team is over-reacting unprofessionally by being as you say jerks instead of just working to get their player signed, that's on them.
It is an era where if the team is causing problems a lot of people will just automatically put it on the agent. I
will say that this agency is just not the least bit affected by that kind of backlash.
AND they have a lot of players who just plain signed and are good citizens in the NFL with no controverises. CAA represents 25 of the players drafted in the first 3 rounds this year. They have the most clients of any agency (175). They represent guys like Rivers and Demaryius Thomas. Super agent Tom Condon is with CAA. He has (and does) handle guys like Brees, Peyton Manning, Eli, Romo, LaDainian Tomlinson and Adrian Peterson. That's a lot of uncontroversial clients and negotiations if you add it all up.
And again their clients are not the only ones with contract disputes or holdouts this year. That includes Mack, who is in a situation like Donald's, and Mack isn;t represented by CAA.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/29/2018 05:01AM by zn.
