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Pro Bowl Player
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- Dec 14, 2015
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20 minutes well worth listening
Some notes:
- embrace FA
- in FA you're gonna overpay, the question is who and by how much . and that it is for a player that will carry locker room - this is the way we (Pats) will do it
- free agency can kill culture / locker room
- when you get overpaid you lose mental toughness - its human nature
- if i can keep the player off the field by formation I don’t pay him
- sometimes teams use franchise tag (re Rams) because of cash flow (they start paying tag only in September)
On the Combine and testing:
-- we've all been fooled in the past here at Combine with athleticism - really by steroids. You have to have more chances to test them - and this is also why workouts at Combine are important - what could happen is a player comes to combine, not work out, then do extensive training program utilising a lot of different substancies, have a great Pro Day and boom..
Since this is the intro session bears following next editions in the following days..
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Let me add two of his quotes on Hightower from Reiss article here as well:
“What they’re going to do with Hightower, and what they do with a lot of these guys, is let the player see his market value. Because if he’s out there on the market, and he does come back at a deal that he feels is worthwhile -- like Devin McCourty came back and other players have come back -- then the player isn’t upset that he feels like he’s gotten ripped off. He’s out there on the market, he knows what his value is, his agent has laid it out: ‘You can get X amount from this team, X amount from the Patriots, you make the call.’”
“I think it a healthy way to negotiate and it’s not fearful of losing the player. And it keeps your locker room a lot cleaner and a lot healthier in terms of ‘You’re paying this guy what?’ Not a lot is paid attention to that.“
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