When news broke yesterday that Titans quarterback Vince Young has hired CAA to handle his football business, we immediately looked at the player-agent list to see whether Young’s backup, Kerry Collins, also is represented by CAA.
Collins isn’t, but another quarterback linked to Young is (for now) a CAA client: Matt Leinart, who like Young was a top-ten pick in 2006. The news possibly came as an unwelcome surprise to Leinart, who celebrated his 27th birthday on Tuesday.
Four years ago, CAA wouldn’t have represented both players, since they were both hoping to be the first quarterback taken off the board. Today, the question is whether a potential conflict still exists.
On the surface, the answer is no. Both players have their teams, and whether Young remains the long-term answer in Tennessee is irrelevant to whether Leinart keeps the starting job in Arizona. But both men are signed through 2011. What if they become free agents at the same time — and what if both are hoping to get a job with the same team?
Surely, the folks at CAA were aware of the possible problems before signing Young. They might have even talked to Leinart about the situation before he found out about it on his own. Still, at a certain level, Leinart has to be feeling like he’s playing second fiddle to the man who beat USC in Leinart’s final college game, and who was picked seven spots ahead of the 2004 Heisman winner.
Thus, don’t be surprised if the next agent-related development entails Leinart leaving CAA and hiring a new firm.
Are you this hard up for a story?
Do you have to try so hard to manufacture stories? It’s quite pathetic.
Seriously? This is a story? Must be a slow day in the football world or nobody wants to talk to Florio anymore. Can’t say I blame them.
This is a story?
I was hoping you would have a Song girl story…this is lame. Only bill collecting lawyers care about this crap
If I ever get reprimanded or worse from my employer for looking at PFT during the day, it will be articles like this that make me understand their point. I am wasting valuable time on crap like this!
goodbye pft till football starts, better to post nothing at all thank this kinda crap
You make me want to be a better man Florio
They probably have other clients who will be free agents at the same time too…scandalous!
so, how about that lebron james?
So are you suggesting that every single QB in the NFL has to be represented by a different agency? Does it stop there? Do all centers, linebackers, and cornerbacks in the NFL require unique representation to ensure they get the full, undivided attention of their agents and that their needs will trump the needs of any other player at the same position entering free agency at the same time?
Just how many agents/agencies are there?
“Today, the question is whether a potential conflict still exists.
On the surface, the answer is no. ”
Isn’t the question–if there is one here–whether an actual conflict exists as opposed to a potential conflict?
The answer to either question is no whether above, on, or below the surface.
Under your theory of potential conflict, each agancy may represent only one QB, which is ridiculous.
You are really reaching with this story.
“Leinart has to be feeling like he’s playing second fiddle to the man who beat USC in Leinart’s final college game”
Damn florio, you can read minds now? What a horrible article.
It’s just another case of florio trying to stir the pot. There is no news here.
Matt Leinart got an unusual birthday present
Maybe a picture of a real QB that knows how to throw the ball?
who cares about matt lienart?
Well this is clearly a BS story. I wish you wouldn’t write articles just to hit some magic quota number, because the quality has been severely lacking since the NBC partnership took effect.
“Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda Jeff Ireland Ben Roethlisberger Lawrence Taylor woozle wuzzle boingo boingo whoopsie knickers” – The typical Florio article between the draft and the start of preseason.
Maybe Belicheat can represent them… he wouldn’t care if there was a conflict of interest.
So if an agent reps multiple QB’s they should try to stagger the length of all the contracts so they never expire at the same time?
Agreed. This is not a story. Only explanation is that this site gets good activity from the NFL agents demo… all 10 of them.
Can’t wait for the season to start.
I’m not a fan of either Young or Leinart, but these rumor-mongering, total non-story ‘stories’ are getting truly embarrassing. Steve Smith, while a total jack*ss, actually made a valid (and unintentionally hilarious) point when he noted that he and other players don’t even consider this low level, classless site as part of the legitimate media. Ever wonder why no player, coach, team official or even agent will ever give even a quote to PFT despite giving lengthy interviews to other, more credible news sources?
I suppose the bright side is that at least these grasping yet ultimately baseless ‘articles’ are preferable to the videos, where we have to listen to Florio’s phony patrician accent and stare with horrified fascination at that hairpiece.
leinart is 27 already? wow, alex smith 6 years in just turned 26
what if either QB was relevant?
what if this was truly a story?
what if Leinart is still in the NFL next August?
what if i quit asking rhetorical questions?
all of you complaining about the story are just as obnoxious as the article…don’t read it if you think its annoying and you must have no life to waste time just to comment that you hate the article.
This (like a great deal of Florio’s Ruminations) when subject to light, causes the cochroaches to scutter away. According to Florio, CAA technically can’t represent any 2 players at the same position. The same conflict of interest applies where there is more than one FA (from the same draft class or not) looking to fill a spot with any team.
I guess the Jerry Maguire thing never took hold
you should print out rosters on these big agencies listing agent/clients
take the draft & do a scouting report on who is going to be difficult to sign…there’s about 500 posts coming soon where the ego & star power of agents are going to be featured
in the meantime I would bet neither Leinart or Young have given as much thought to this as you have
Maybe your career as a lawyer would have panned out if you had more than one client. Everyone knows you can’t have two different ones because there’s a chance they could sue each other. What then?
“Maybe your career as a lawyer would have panned out if you had more than one client. Everyone knows you can’t have two different ones because there’s a chance they could sue each other. What then?”
This comment was genius. (And, no, I’m not being sarcastic). If only Florio et al. could be a fraction as clever and witty as some of the posters here!
Ah, its one of those “if Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Earth line up and an elephant sneezes on a rainy day in June, then X will happen” story. Must be slow going in the off season.
TMZ has more credible sports stories then PFT…and thats a damn shame
@cleisen38 …
I always wonder about people who complain about other people who complain about stories that have no substance. So you think the people who come here for news must have no lives if they complain that they’ve taken time to come here for news and found fluff? But what does it say about you that you’re complaining about people complaining about nothing? And now I’m commenting on someone commenting on people commenting about nothing. Hmmmmm.
Just because you could NEVER get a job in the NFL or ever succeed as an agent you act like an old lady in a bridgeclub stirring up gossip about nonstories like this. If you even had a CLUE as to how the inner workings of personnel operate, you would hike up your dress and crawl back in your West Virginia hole. PATHETIC!
Huh? Whut? Why diss story is heer? makey no senss. “Seven spot ahead”? Kerry Collins? 27th birthday? On the surface, no. Below the surface, even no-er. Second fiddle?- is that where Florio comes in?
I guarantee I won’t be surprizd at whut happens next when CAA and their clients discuss the future, thank God for this post. Now I’m forewarned. Might be more important if these two (or three??) jackasses become good QBs. But then i be just simpleton. Lawyers. Can’t live with em, dream about livin without em.
Florio, dont ferget yer little pocket organizer thingy, and it may need batteries.
Well, it works. Florio, I keep coming back to this story and staring, rubbernecking, at how dead, bloody, swollen and useless this stinking rat carcass is. Cripes. This is worse than dead Bradshaw! Because it shows you really have no life. We can understand why you might break the Bradshaw story, no matter how wrong you were. But imagining you hunched over the laptop, silly lipless grin, funny little breathy noises, tap-tap-tapping out a story full of the most ridiculous blather, posting it and feeling smart. Oh my.
Leinart should sign with the William Morris Agency, which represents several people who play quarterback as well as he does: Ed Asner, the Olsen Twins, Estelle Getty, that one armed drummer in Def Leppard…
Is Dez bryant’s mom a prostitute?
lumber&horses says:
May 12, 2010 4:26 PM
Is Dez bryant’s mom a prostitute?
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no, she just works for a pimp.
This just in: NOBODY has a contract that reaches 2020! There could be some serious conflicts of interest then. Florio, you should write about that.
why did i even keep reading that stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid ass shit
Florio, you are such an imbecile….Matt and Vince are actually very good friends, did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, Vince might have talked to Matt about hiring his agent? You have just been educated by a woman you moron.
Agent? These guys both suck and cant read a defense–will be replaced soon enough when capable, hard-working QB’s replace them–both were beat out by washed up QB’s from the 1994 and 1995 draft and they will wash out or party-out prior to a new deal.
It’s really sad you get paid to write this. But, at least here you can’t commit malpractice.
If the article sucks stops posting coments. Anything they write gets 40 comments which just means more money to write shit articles
Yeah I don’t know that the conflict of interest here is a big deal. I mean Eli and Peyton have the same agent. Perhaps that’s why they had to have an Oreo licking contest to settle things?