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Ekern55
I am an agent, but not a sports agent. There is no theoretical conspiracy here. That's how agents talk, no matter what we're selling. So, I'm not anti-agent. I know how we think.

My only guiding principle in these types of discussions is reality. And the reality here is who gets paid ultimately. There's too many red flags in what France has done with Donald to think France first and foremost wants Donald to get paid. What will make France more in the long run? The commission he makes off of the contract of $25 million per year of whatever quarterback money France can get him? Or can he make more by representing multiple clients under a new CBA that puts the owners in a sellers' market?

I see no red flags in anything Donald has done. (I also don't see how agents can change the CBA. And even if they could, one firm alone won't do that.) I also don't see how a very rare, generational player like Donald can upset the entire apple cart. What, is he paving the way for all the many Donalds that will follow him? The last player in the league in his class at DT was Sapp, and he retired 7 years before Donald was drafted,

I don't see any of that. I see a team making an offer that is too low given all the parameters. And an agent whose demand is at the other extreme.

That never happens? 2 extremes and then they work out a balance everyone can live with?

I also don't think 25 M is qb money. Not that he will get 25 M as I just said, but 25 M stopped being qb money when Cousins got 28 M. In terms of that, Suh already broke the "qb barrier" in 2015 when his 19 M a year was more than a lot of starting qbs at the time and the ones above him were like just 1 or 2 M different. So as a rule, I am generally not all that responsive to the "he can't have qb money" thing. I think that's a mystificaton of what's really going on. And again, not that there's any chance of Donald getting that. It' s just a thing I notice.

I've had several "contract discussions" over the years, starting with Faulk's hold out in 99 before his new deal, and then Warner's contract battle in 2000 when Zygmunt was publicly saying they didn't know if he was worth top end money because he had only done it one year. In the middle of all that, I never get into discussions of agents commissions. That to me just sounds way too much like scapegoating. You're an agent, you said .Are you solely into it to rip people off and drive up commissions and generally be the kind of bad guy parasite that gets evoked in discussions like this?





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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2018 01:35PM by zn.