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Originally Posted by Buehler445
The simple answer is they can do whatever they want.
They can write the rules to say that if a player holds out they can't be the highest paid player, or top 5 or whatever, maybe to make it consistent just have it be the anti-tag. If you hold out one game, your AAV has to be below the average of the top 5 or whatever.
If the owners want to get rid of holding out, they'll get rid of holding out.
The reality is that the players shouldn't sign contracts they're going to be unhappy with. If Jones doesn't like the contract has then he shouldn't have signed it. If he doesn't like the contract they're offering, he shouldn't sign it, play out the year and then hit free agency free and clear. Then if they tag him, he gets 120% of his 2023 salary fully guarantied. And if he doesn't like that one, then don't sign it. Holding out on a franchise tag is one thing. Holding out on a contract you negotiated is quite another. (IMO of course). But taking $23.4M guaranteed isn't a bad consolation prize if you get tagged.
For all the shit Cousins takes, that dude played the game and won. He took the Franchise Tags, negotiated the contracts he wanted, and cashed the checks. All without holding out.
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The injury thing is the biggest reason they won't do it. That and the tag.
It's alot easier for a QB i'd imagine, due to the rules of the game now, to play without injury.