Asante filed a grievance? (NEM sources)

[Keegs]

I was just on NEM's *********** site and saw this thread that NEM created about Asante Filing a grievance....
this is what it says:


I just received a phone call telling me that Asant Samuel has filed a grievance, against the Patriots, with the NFL Players Association.

If so, TRADE HIS ***** OUT OF HERE.....

Has anyone heard anything about this?
Can he really file a grievance because we didn't offer him what he wanted?

 

[pats1]

I'd take that "phone call" with a grain of salt.

...make that an industrial size carton...

 

[Keegs]

Ok let's assume it's true.

What could he file a grievance on?

I know pretty much nothing about grievances and i don't understand what could be the reason and if he could even get anywhere by doing this.

 

[PATSNUTme]

My cousins neighbor's sister heard the same thing from her dentist's mother.

Maybe it is true.


Maybe it's not true.

 

[Keegs]

My cousins neighbor's sister heard the same thing from her dentist's mother.

Maybe it is true.


Maybe it's not true.

Maybe it is.

Maybe he filed a grievance and then called NEM.

 

[pats1]

Maybe it is.

Maybe he filed a grievance and then called NEM.

Maybe NEM actually thought Asante called him.

Wouldn't surprise me...

 

[Oswlek]

My cousins neighbor's sister heard the same thing from her dentist's mother.

Maybe it is true.


Maybe it's not true.

Holy crap! My dentist's step-sister's mother's aunt heard the same thing!

Small world.

 

[Jimke]

Maybe the Pats typed up the tender offer on their own stationery instead of using the official form for tender offers? This worked for Tod Sauerbrun. Another thought is that filing a grievance worked for Deon Branch and got him traded. A possible grievance might scare the Pats into trading Asante.

 

[Keegs]

Maybe the Pats typed up the tender offer on their own stationery instead of using the official form for tender offers? This worked for Tod Sauerbrun. Another thought is that filing a grievance worked for Deon Branch and got him traded. A possible grievance might scare the Pats into trading Asante.

God i hope so.

Package him with Caldwell and ship them both to Pitt for Polamalu

too bad that's not happening......

 

[Pats726]

been SOOOO Long since NEM and those type rumors....God love him...always a bit fun on the offseason....makes it go by...SOOO fast....why a grievance?? almost 8 million not enough??? Can get 4 or 5 times that but the team will not give NE a number one?? Wants to complain that his tatoo was misread ALL the time??? Wants to invoke a rule that he can sit out almost all games and get the full amount of money?? Just plain silly...but it was my grandmother's hairdresser's cousin who overheard it from Asante's agent's brother in law's mecahnic.

 

[patriot lifer]

what could the players association do anyways? the pats haven't broke any rules, i hope. if he was actually doing it, it could only be to harbor ill-will and push a trade.

the franchise tag is definitely going to be a topic of discussion at the next owners meeting.

 

[Jimke]

what could the players association do anyways? the pats haven't broke any rules, i hope. if he was actually doing it, it could only be to harbor ill-will and push a trade.

the franchise tag is definitely going to be a topic of discussion at the next owners meeting.

According to Mike Vrabel, the owners would give up the franchise tag but only in return for free agency after 5 years instead of 4.

 

[patriot lifer]

they should just make it so that a player can't be franchised two years in a row unless he holds out

 

[patchick]

they should just make it so that a player can't be franchised two years in a row unless he holds out

That's not half bad.

 

[PatsSteve1]

OK, I admit it. I called Nem The only grounds I can think of are if another team gave him a deal and agreed to the 2 round 1 picks and the Patriots said no. But that would have come out already. Just like if Asante had filed a greivance I think ESPN or some media would have known before Nem got a call.

 

[Va_Pats_Fan]

OK, I admit it. I called Nem - The only grounds I can think of are if another team gave him a deal and agreed to the 2 round 1 picks and the Patriots said no. But that would have come out already. Just like if Asante had filed a greivance I think ESPN or some media would have known before Nem got a call.

I don't think the pats can say no if the team gives up the 2 1's...Its like, we signed him, here are your draft picks...seeya!

 

[PatsSteve1]

I don't think the pats can say no if the team gives up the 2 1's...Its like, we signed him, here are your draft picks...seeya!

* Yeah I think you're right. It's all I could think of

 

[Jimke]

Maybe Asante wants Kessler, the NLFPA's lawyer, to see whether any technicality in the CBA has been broken by the Pats like in the case of Sauerbrun. Lightning sometimes strikes twice in the same place.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

I'd post a link to the thread on his site, but then he'd get what he wants. Seems his contact lied to him and beyond that he's berserk again and would like to come here and defend himself in this thread BUT barring that he's launched another broadside against all his perceived enemies here...and of course, somehow it's all Box's fault... LOL

 

[sieglo]

Maybe he could claim the Pats went out and actively poisoned the market for his services, creating a situation where nobody wanted to give up the two picks.