Not sure what your point is here...

CJ is under contract. By not showing up he pays both fines AND loses his weekly salary (which is subtracted from his annual cap count).

If your point is the player (CJ in this instance) signed a contract & is now obligated to it, regardless of fines & lost revenue, then yeah, sure, obvious fact is obvious.

If your point is fans are bitching because CJ is failing to meet his contractual obligations, then yeah, again, the fans have a point: him skipping out on contractual obligations is a failure on his behalf. Because, well, it IS. He is failing both himself and his team.

If your point is other, then please specify.

Sure. The point is he has a contract that allows him to miss these games and not get paid. He's okay with that. Why are you mad if this were part of the initial agreement?

Are the Chiefs and fans being taken advantage of? Why? The organization entered into this agreement with CJ. If it didn't want to give him the option of missing games and not getting paid, it shouldn't have offered him this contract.

That's the exact argument you're making with Dexter. The guy signed a contract he probably didn't entirely understand and now is being disadvantaged because of it. You have no sympathy for that, but you feel like the Chiefs are being persecuted by CJ's actions?

Chris Jones has no contractual obligation to play for the Chiefs for the first 7 weeks to accrue a season's worth of employment. You similarly have no contractual obligation to go into work tomorrow and complete your job. It's at-will employment and he and you can choose to sleep in and just not get paid.

It's just a bit hypocritical to be so "I abide by the letter of the contract" with Dexter even though the guy was clearly being taken advantage of while castigating CJ because he's doing exactly what's allowed in his contract.

(Note: I'm not trying to argue that I like or support what CJ is doing, but I think it's pot-kettle-black to criticize Dexter as not living up to a contract when Chiefs fans don't appreciate that - as employers of CJ - the organization has given him the option to do exactly what he's doing right now.)

I'd say he saw the money and didn't think about the whole deal

I am pretty sure that a contract cannot override actual legislation.

Greed blinds the mind to it's consequences. (Hey CJ, are you listening???)

Well don't laws mean anything? The Florida rep that sponsored the bill says that the deal was illegal.

You seem like an old bitter dipshit that doesn't care if people get taken advantage of, because you've never done anything dumb in your life. He was just 20 years old when he agreed to the deal and sometimes young adults don't do the best things. NIL isn't supposed to be a loan that is paid back. It's for the company to pay the player, so that it can use that players name, image, and likeness for there business.

Don't you think the world would be a better place if sleezy companies weren't allowed to prey on young people and take advantage of kids in shitty situations just trying to improve their lives? Hell, old people fall for shit all the time and they should really know better.

Oh! I'm excited to share some completely obscure trivia that I learned the other day. This is not meant to be a dispute, and I agree with your general thought, but I read some history related to this very topic.

Apparently when the USA was being formed, a bunch of states made territorial claims west of the Appalachians. There were a lot of negotiations about this because the states that didn't make claims didn't want the other states becoming much larger than them.

Eventually, the expansionist states agreed to give up their claims. However, there was a problem with Georgia. The state legislature had sold land claims in modern-day Alabama and Mississippi while Georgia was claiming those areas, and took bribes to sell it very cheaply. After public outcry and voting the corrupt people out of office, the new state legislature passed legislation to invalidate the sales. The people who got the land cheap (presumably crooks) sued, saying it was a legal contract. The case eventually went to the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled that legislation could not override a sales contract if the legislation was created after a contract.

I had to bring that up, because what are the odds that it would be relevant?

Edit: I looked it up. It was the Yazoo Land Scandal and I corrected some facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_v._Peck

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I'm assuming that is why this is a Federal Lawsuit

I'm not a lawyer - but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/fl...cv00228/480720


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1332

The article states the contract was signed when the law was already in effect. I'm assuming the lawsuit was filed in federal court because BLA is incorporated in another state while Dexter is a Florida citizen. There probably is a clause in the contract governing which state law applies. I'm assuming the argument is going come down on where was the contract communicated/executed.

That's lawyer talk. I am but a humble historian.

First, interest rates are projected to go from the lows 5s to the mid 3s over the next 6yrs so assuming constant rates is flawed.

Second, but if you want to assume simplicity at current 5.25 spot rates, it takes you more like 13-14 years to double your money (rule of 72). For you to be right in terms of doubling your money over 6yrs, one would need to be receiving around 12% and there’s nothing remotely riskless that involves that return.

Third, that $430k is pre-tax. I think his effective federal tax rate (I’ll assume Florida so no state and local) would be about 31% which means he actually takes home a bit less than 300k of it. Meanwhile of course he’s paying out pre-tax income through the life of the deal.

That did not read like a NIL agreement, it read like a loan. But I’m no expert.

Hey dipshit....cj skipping out was not part of the contract. At will employment and a CONTRACT are not the same. Dexter was an adult when he signed his contract. It was a bad one...but tough shit. You sign, you are obligated.

Hey dipshit, the agreement was against the law. Also, we have to stop with thinking it's fine for companies to take advantage of people. It's why this country has gone to shit.

CJ is well within his right to miss whatever he wants. He's clearly not breaching his contract, because if he was they could just get out of it. Dipshit.


**** I hate everything about you and your ilk.