Tinstar Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 If you were in Malcolm Butler's shoes, having to play under a 1 year 4 mil tender knowing that another team is willing to pay you 13 mil per, would you hold out or just report and risk injury and all that money . Consider that this kid was an UNFA and this is his big chance to make the money . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Woody Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 19 minutes ago, Tinstar said: If you were in Malcolm Butler's shoes, having to play under a 1 year 4 mil tender knowing that another team is willing to pay you 13 mil per, would you hold out or just report and risk injury and all that money . Consider that this kid was an UNFA and this is his big chance to make the money . He doesn't have too much leverage. If the Pats wanted to they can sabotage him rather easily. He either needs to be willing to take this WAY over the top or just put his head down and go to work. By WAY over the top, I'm talking salting the earth on the Pats, full media access, blasting the organization, raising concern about how he is perceived to be playing for a cheating organization, suggesting there were times that he felt they might have been playing outside the rules, basically using the press to create a media circus around the organization to force his way off the team. It would be very ugly and he would also lose a lot of his own marketability and damage his own reputation as owners and GMs would see him as a problem child. A lot of the times, forcing the issue from a player standpoint does way more harm than good. If he wants to do it though, he needs to set the table right now and get on twitter and call out the organization and make a ton of waves this week leading up to the draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangerous Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, Lil Woody said: He doesn't have too much leverage. If the Pats wanted to they can sabotage him rather easily. He either needs to be willing to take this WAY over the top or just put his head down and go to work. By WAY over the top, I'm talking salting the earth on the Pats, full media access, blasting the organization, raising concern about how he is perceived to be playing for a cheating organization, suggesting there were times that he felt they might have been playing outside the rules, basically using the press to create a media circus around the organization to force his way off the team. It would be very ugly and he would also lose a lot of his own marketability and damage his own reputation as owners and GMs would see him as a problem child. A lot of the times, forcing the issue from a player standpoint does way more harm than good. If he wants to do it though, he needs to set the table right now and get on twitter and call out the organization and make a ton of waves this week leading up to the draft. that's the whole point. butler's would've taken a first round pick and that's just too much for a team to give up especially since this draft is supposed to be deep in defensive backs. so he can play for about 4 m and become an unrestricted fa for next season. and just because the patsies gave him a 1st round tender doesn't mean he's the second coming of ty law. he isn't. there's no spot open in the hof for butler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Woody Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 14 minutes ago, rangerous said: that's the whole point. butler's would've taken a first round pick and that's just too much for a team to give up especially since this draft is supposed to be deep in defensive backs. so he can play for about 4 m and become an unrestricted fa for next season. and just because the patsies gave him a 1st round tender doesn't mean he's the second coming of ty law. he isn't. there's no spot open in the hof for butler. He should just do what Randy Moss did when he wanted to go to the Patriots. Destroy his current teams leverage and force their hands. Pats are looking at getting a 3rd rd comp pick next season. Saints should offer them a 3rd or Butler will just hold out for half the year and mail it in the rest of the year. The worst thing Butler can do for himself is to weaken his new teams supply of picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangerous Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Lil Woody said: He should just do what Randy Moss did when he wanted to go to the Patriots. Destroy his current teams leverage and force their hands. Pats are looking at getting a 3rd rd comp pick next season. Saints should offer them a 3rd or Butler will just hold out for half the year and mail it in the rest of the year. The worst thing Butler can do for himself is to weaken his new teams supply of picks. maybe, but butler isn't as good as moss was at his position and it's going to be hard for him to diss the patsies without the other teams painting him as a malcontent. it would be nice to see him try to disrupt the bellichicken harmony though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 This is the Pats we're talking about. Butler will probably take a pay cut this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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