MoLewisrocks

BelichickFan

I don't think this changes anything, he'll show up when he's needed with or without a new contract.

tanked_as_usual

only if he signs the tender......people don't play if not under contract

but this is a non-issue.......the pats perfectly well realize that if they want him here now, then they have to get him to sign something whether it is an extension or the tender

after all....he is a free agent, albeit a restricted one......

MoLewisrocks

I think it could in a season where leadership is being focused on by the guy who signs the checks...

His attitude will likely change as draft day approaches and absent an offer sheet he becomes the exclusive property of the NEP and as more of the RFA's sign their tenders prior to the deadline at which teams can lower them to 110% of 2009 salary. But if it doesn't, he could become trade bait.

BelichickFan

And he will sign it. Players end up playing. Always.

spacecrime

That's cool.

He can get another team to sign a contract up to teh week before the draft. Then the Pats can match it if it is a god cobntract or get a first and a third round draft pick.

Win-win

And if no one signs him to a contract, then he plays for $3 mil in 2010. He has to be in training camp because of a poison pill in the RFA rules. If he doesn't sign his tender by mid-June, it will be reduced to $1.5 mil for 2010.

I wonder what he thinks of the NFLPA's no-negotiation stance now?

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“When we look at the board, based on everything we want in a football player at that particular time, we evaluate them and take the player that fits best for our football team. That’s what we always do, and I think the last nine years we’ve put a pretty competitive team out there on the field every year. I think that’s how you do it – you get good football players. Sometimes they are not always at the No. 1 position, but I don’t think you pass up good football players to get the guys who aren’t as good just because they’re at a position that somebody feels you need.”
BB on his draft philosophy, April 2010

tanked_as_usual

sure.....just a matter of when.....

maybe if I start putting out there the notion that he will sign 8 weeks into the season like with wilfork, that he will sign an extension the next day, like with wilfork

cstjohn17

Logan Mankins

"Restricted free agent LG Logan Mankins is not showing up for the Patriots' offseason activities because he wants a long-term contract.

Mankins, a Pro Bowler in two of the last three seasons, is in California and plans on staying there until there is "significant" movement on his contract situation. Mankins was tendered at the first- and third-round level, so the Patriots can almost certainly force him to play on a one-year, $3.268 million deal in 2010."

MoLewisrocks

Marqui

Here we go.