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patchick said:They played a high-stakes game of chicken, now they're facing the consequences.
patchick said:Interesting piece because it focuses purely on the tactics taken. No matter how you feel about the contract situation itself, it surely seems like the agent misplayed this badly by trying to "talk his way out of town." The Ty Law saga should have shown him that the Patriots don't bite on that.
They played a high-stakes game of chicken, now they're facing the consequences. If Branch follows through on the game-10 threat he not only plays for free this year, but quite likely takes a hit on the next contract's value. That's a multi-million-dollar blunder.
patchick said:Interesting piece because it focuses purely on the tactics taken. No matter how you feel about the contract situation itself, it surely seems like the agent misplayed this badly by trying to "talk his way out of town." The Ty Law saga should have shown him that the Patriots don't bite on that.
They played a high-stakes game of chicken, now they're facing the consequences. If Branch follows through on the game-10 threat he not only plays for free this year, but quite likely takes a hit on the next contract's value. That's a multi-million-dollar blunder.
lobster said:This first cut-down could be a critical time where the Pat's won't want to cut a decent player because Branch has a lousy agent. The Pat's might instead elect to cut Branch in the first cut-down for failing to fulfill his contract, and then file suit. Branch would go on a unpaid Reserve-Legal list with NFL approval, until he puts up the necessary $millions in a settlement with the Pat's and becomes a free agent.
MoLewisrocks said:Caught a bit of Felger yesterday when he wasn't talking Sox. He made a related point that if Chauyt had any hope of pressuring the Patriots into increasing their offer as part of a holdout ending strategy he blew that too by going public in detail with the offers made pre holdout. Now there is no way they negotiate any further to sweeten the offer because it would be readily apparent that his holdout had resulted in a deal with increased value.