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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Exactly. It would only take 1 team to break the "collusion".
If he was REALLY worth the kind of scratch he wants, somebody would have gone against the grain and acquired him.
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Another thing that I read is that any team that places an offer for Lamar, the Ravens will just match. As such they don't want to do the negotiating for the Ravens. On top of that no one is going to give him a fully guaranteed contract (if that is indeed what he is demanding). The Cousins/Watson contracts need to stay the exceptions, not the norm. They don't want to make this a precedent because every QB after Jackson will want a fully guaranteed contract that exceeds his. Before long other skill groups will do the same and football would be fundamentally changed. There was a reason no one got one for a long time after Cousins until the Browns did it.
Whether people want to realize it or not, Jackson is not worth what he is demanding. I get he was a league MVP and I said last year at least that award would inflate his demands. His award was in 2019. He has progressively declined since then and has missed significant time the last two seasons. Giving him the largest amount of guaranteed money and two first round picks is asking for a GM to be fired.