SEYMOUR AND HARRISON

[afterhours]

seems like seymour and harrison are yapping up the wrong tree. guess they did'nt pay attention to miloy and law. i think that we have great depth at saftey and d- line. granted that i love rodneys' game and seymour is supposedly one of the best. if bill thought that they could'nt win without them he would have addressed them like brady. notice that rodney showed up, he's no dummy.

[ProfessorM]

I do not understand why these guys sign contracts and then want to redo them or extend them before they run out. I understand they can be cut like that and they want to maximize the amout of cash before their career heads south but why even have contracts? The buisness of sports has ruined the games. These guy's have no idea what it is like to work and live in the real world. Sometimes I wonder why I even waste my time following them. Paul

[Homerun04]

Couldn't agree with you more...what lesson do they teach the kids about what it means to be true to your word, or to your signiture....a contract is a contract IMO.

[Mike P]

Are you going to hold management to their word?

Here's why NFL guys want to re-negotiate a year or two after they sign--it's because there isn't a single, solitary player in the NFL whose contract is guaranteed. Say a guy signs a 5 year contract for 30 million. He's going to get x million up front as a signing bonus. But he's not going to get $6 million a year all five years. He might get $2 mil the first, then maybe $4 mil the second. Then the contact is going to be structured so 24 of the 30 million is "backloaded"--ie, payable during the last 3 years of the deal at 8 mil per. Which he's never going to see because he's going to be a "cap cut" after year 2.

Now, I understand that to us poor schmucks making 5 or at most "low 6" figures a year, 4 mil as oppposed to 6 mil seems silly. But the funny thing is, we all want to be paid what we're worth within our own line of work. We expect to be rewarded for productive work, and to not get a raise or a bonus if our performance sucked. I don't care how much you make---if you pride yourself on doing what you do for a living well, you want recognition and to be paid accordingly by your boss.

[vermonster]

seymour is a machine.I have watch him every down he has played he gets better almost every game.It looks kinda selfish but careers in football are short,keep him here in new england we will win another super bowl maybe two during his career.we are on the verge of having the greatest defensive line in patriot history

[Ed B]

I really don't begrudge any player for getting whatever he can on the open market in pro sports. It is after all what most people do in any profession. Even if the players played for a small fraction of what they do now the owners would still be charging the highest ticket prices they could get away with, going for the biggest possible TV contracts, the biggest advertisement contracts, and keeping the profits for themselves. How many times have we heard "ticket prices will be increasing next season because we are committed to putting a quality product on the field" They don't give you money back if the team stinks.
No matter how much allegiance a player shows to a team they get traded at the drop of a hat or get let go as soon as there performance falters a little. It is a business, and as most players find out in division 1 of NCAA, the fun part ended in high school.