Arrington Interview

[Gmanc711]

This has not been the best offseason for Agents. Everyone should just have Drew Rosenhaus, hes the only one who seems to ever have his sh*t together. If he can get a guy with one leg ( McGahee ) drafed at #23, hes pretty damn good.

[Gmanc711]

Guys, I think I know why he didnt want the NFL to market his name. The second number in his jersey is 6. From there, The Second Minus the first number (6-5) equals 1, plus the first number 5, equals six. From there, the first PLUS the second number * pie = 6. You see what I'm saying 6,6,6. Maybe he htinks his jersey is the mark of the devil?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

Guys, I think I know why he didnt want the NFL to market his name. The second number in his jersey is 6. From there, The Second Minus the first number (6-5) equals 1, plus the first number 5, equals six. From there, the first PLUS the second number * pie = 6. You see what I'm saying 6,6,6. Maybe he htinks his jersey is the mark of the devil?

Ha ha, that's great. Also, Washington Redskins has 18 letters in it. That's 6+6+6. And if you add up LaVar's jersey number (5+6) plus the defensive formation the Redskins employ (4+3), again you get 18 or 6+6+6. But wait, there's more. FedExField has 10 letters plus Landover has 8 letters. Again, that's 18, or 6+6+6. Poor LaVar! No matter where he turns he just can't avoid the mark of the devil.

Seriously though, I hope this grievance gets settled soon because it seems like nothing more than an unecessary nuisance

[Daseal]

I like LaVar but as most everyone has said, he's coming out of this looking like an idiot. Eat the loss and get on with it. I'm sure the huge chunk of cash you're getting will hold you over for the rest of your life.

[SkinsRock]

LaVar, you are the highest paid LB in the NFL....without the 6.5 mil.....get a new agent, shut up, and play.

[Skins fan 44]

Well he dont seemed to outraged about it. I dont understand why they only had 30 minutes to sign the contract. It sounds all true and that he rembembers it all. So why didnt he look to make sure he did not see 666?

[MTK]

What do you guys make of this latest article regarding Arrington and his "missing" $6.5M?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Mar23.html

At least he claims he won't let this interfere with his play on the field, but still, the whole situation is a bit disturbing. How insane would it be if we let Champ go to keep LaVar, and now he could be wanting out?!

Let's hope we can get this situation resolved quickly and have it be water under the bridge by the time the season starts.

[irish]

What I found most interesting about the article is LA's lack of excitement for the coaching change. I suspect this is because LA realizes Gibbs will not put up with his $hit and wanting to do what he wants on defense and to top it off if it comes down to a pissing contest there is no way LA can beat Gibbs in the eyes of the fans or the media.

I think the redskins should look at this as an opportunity to gauge other teams interest in LA and see what can be had in a trade. I suspect LA could help the redskins more by being part of a blockbuster trade that staying on a team he will never respect again.

[dieselhog]

What would be considered a fair trade price for LaVar?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by irish

What I found most interesting about the article is LA's lack of excitement for the coaching change. I suspect this is because LA realizes Gibbs will not put up with his $hit and wanting to do what he wants on defense and to top it off if it comes down to a pissing contest there is no way LA can beat Gibbs in the eyes of the fans or the media.

I think the redskins should look at this as an opportunity to gauge other teams interest in LA and see what can be had in a trade. I suspect LA could help the redskins more by being part of a blockbuster trade that staying on a team he will never respect again.

I can understand him being lukewarm towards yet another coaching change, even if it is a legend like Gibbs. How many defensive coordinators has LaVar had to work with now? Schotty, Rhodes, Lewis, Edwards and now Williams. Did I leave anyone out? LOL

That's 5 different coaches, 5 different philosophies, 5 different management styles, etc. After all, the constant changes is what drove Bailey away, so of course LaVar is going to be a bit skeptical. I think once they get down to business and LaVar sees how things are going to go under Gibbs he'll fall in line.

[SkinsRock]

I think LaVar needs to open his eyes and realize that whether the Redskins intentionally left it out or tried to deceive him or not, it's his agent's JOB to make sure it is correct before anything is signed. But he wasn't even there! The point is that it was signed.

He seems to have soured on the Redskins from a business standpoint and if Redskins do win the ruling, if/when he is asked to restructure in a few years, he will probably be gone.....and that sucks....

[BleedBurgundy]

I think talk of trading LA is a bit premature. Right now, he thinks that the Skins screwed him out of 6 1/2 million dollars. He's wrong, but that's what he thinks. If it were me, I'd be pissed too. But...He's eventually gonna cool down and realize that, like SkinsRock said, he's the highest paid LB in the league and that he signed the contract without making sure all of the details were to his liking. Not exactly unfair. Plus---He's still not even approaching the jackass proportions of Ty Law who says he doesn't ever want to be a Patriot again. LA still has emotional ties to the Skins and seems to care about the team, that's a good thing. As far as not being excited about Gibbs goes...It's his what, 5th coach? I'm excited too about Gibbs being back, but I'll admit that excitement is tempered until I see results.

[BleedBurgundy]

Regardless, I'd say his agent is pretty much fired. He'd be stupid not too. Like you said, the agent didn't do his j-o-b. Honestly, I think LA believes he's such a big part of the team that the front office should give him a mulligan and include the bonus he thought he was getting. One thing to think about though is that no matter how the ruling goes, just because we were accused of double dealing, we look like crooks to next year's free agents.

[JWsleep]

Well, I don't know about a full-on mulligan, but when the skins win this case, they would be well served to add on SOMETHING to smooth things over. No way it's going to be another 6.5 in 2006, but they could find some cap-friendly incentive-type bonus money, and maybe Danny-boy could give him some stock in the skins... but only if LA fires that numbnuts agent!

[AnonEmouse]

No we don't. The front office have negotiated a lot of contracts without hitches since mr Snyder took over. Some of them were very much biased towards the players. Every player out there knows the Skins are capable of paying out big bucks on new contracts. One bit of bad news doesn't mean they'll all hate us.

Consider the TO situation. Anyone seriously believe the 49ers FO will suffer any fallout? Of course not.

The problem here, if you ask me, is will the NFLPA involvement swing the arbitrator against us? From the evidence that's been revealed (which of course could be BS), it looks like LA's agent screwed up and is responsible for not checking the contract (they weren't 'forced' to sign) before signature. If the NFLPA and LA's agent can bluster that the FO tricked LA et al, will the arbitrator ignore the 'buyer beware' maxim and decide we acted unfairly?

I truly hope common sense will out in this case, and the agents get it in the neck. It's about time they were called to task. They earn a lot of money off the back of other peoples achievements and seem to have very little responsibility in these issues.