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Old 09-06-2023, 08:10 PM   #32
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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.)
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