Guregian: Boutte Requested a Trade Back in April

[Thelonious]

Brown’s knee hasn’t given out, they can’t live their lives under the assumption it will this season.

Neither should they "live their lives" under the assumption that an aging receiver with a known knee problem is immune to injury.

Boutte is under contract for this season only, so either you pay him, trade him or let it play out and lose him for nothing in return next year. They’re about to pay Gonzo megabucks… so you can kiss any compensatory picks goodbye.

Yep. Those are indeed the options.

 

[n1997y]

… I reject specifically, apropos of the topic of this thread, any notion that his request for a trade ought not at all be held against him.

That confused me.

I think you just said that Boutte requesting a trade should be held against him.

Is that so? Why? Has there been a clamor against Boutte as a result of his asking for a trade? I’ve not seen one. Did I miss it?

 

[Huckleberry1]

That confused me.

I think you just said that Boutte requesting a trade should be held against him.

Is that so? Why? Has there been a clamor against Boutte as a result of his asking for a trade? I’ve not seen one. Did I miss it?

This idea, that players have no right to want to get paid more, or play somewhere else is as authoritarian as it gets. What's next, should they have to call the coaches Massah?

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

I misspoke. Signing your own players does not affect the compensatory process. But it’s an arbitrary process by the NFL that rarely pays anything back.

You may not like the formula, but it is anything but "arbitrary".

 

[Ring 6]

#1 in 2024 and #2 in 2025 for WR snaps, that’s correct… not “wrong.”

Production is the barometer, he is a solid #3 boundary WR, which makes him a solid #4 in any decent WR room.

Good player, but not the guy you overpay. Considering what WR’s are making nowadays, he surely has outsized expectations for what he thinks he deserves.

Next year Drake Maye becomes eligible for an extension, undoubtedly he’ll become one of, if not the most expensive player in the entire NFL. But you think the cap doesn’t exist, so you have ridiculous takes like this one.

They paid Brown and Doubs, they’re not paying Boutte unless he takes a #4 type WR deal… even then, they probably have younger, better, cheaper WR’s already on the roster.

I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.

Boutte doesn’t need to be paid hr is under contract.

 

[Ring 6]

This ^ is word salad nonsense to deflect from you being wrong.

I can’t keep refuting, when you keep repeating the same wrongheaded dreck over and over.

I can see you are committed to your current level of understanding.

Hahahaha I lay out exact stats and compare all games they both were healthy and literally prove my point beyond a doubt and you come bs with a bs response like that.
You don’t care about facts, you just care about trying to escape being wrong.
Perhaps if you listened to people who know a lot more about the game than you (the board is full of them ) you would learn something instead of wallowing in a pathetic effort to distort facts to avoid admitting you are wrong.

 

[Wozzy]

Hahahaha I lay out exact stats and compare all games they both were healthy and literally prove my point beyond a doubt and you come bs with a bs response like that.
You don’t care about facts, you just care about trying to escape being wrong.
Perhaps if you listened to people who know a lot more about the game than you (the board is full of them ) you would learn something instead of wallowing in a pathetic effort to distort facts to avoid admitting you are wrong.

So far your “stats” have been pure fiction. PFR actually did the math for both of us and proved you completely wrong.

Also if you need to create hand picked qualifiers, or pretend a regular season is 21 games not 17, or need us to use our imagination where Boutte is far better than he has actually ever been… then your take is hot garbage.

I’m not going to keep responding to you repeating already debunked nonsense.

Boutte is a 500-700 yard WR, because facts say so. All your bullsht dancing doesn’t change anything.

 

[Wozzy]

Boutte doesn’t need to be paid hr is under contract.

If I have to explain NFL negotiations 101 again then you are being intentionally obtuse.