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Originally Posted by Bill B
Actually I heard on sports talk 980 that the NFL put in new restrictions after the Lavar fiasco that does not allow players to buy out of there contracts anymore/return money to the team. Since this new rule teams have to be more than careful about handing out huge sontracts/bonuses because of this.
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Yeah, the nflpa got that put into the new cba I believe. It guarantees "guaranteed" money as much as possible.
Maybe AA will retire & then un-retire, we wouldn't have to pay him all of his salary, but I'm sure some of it would still be dead cap $.
If the Lavar strategy is being used, I think it's really poor mgmt. Players talk to other players & they do have a union. It's not good for morale. In Lavar's case it seemed there was a lot he & his agents brought on himself, we haven't heard anything from AA (unless he's the mole in the Friend article) to indicate that he's a problem other than sucking in coverage. Ditto the Coles debacle. It can't be good for player-mgmt. relations to have threats looming over your player's heads!