Comments on: D’Brickashaw Ferguson has 750,000 reasons to hope the lockout ends

By: robsterny

robsterny — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:06:13 +0000

@ FinFan68;
Sooooo…your saying he should still get the 750,000? …Whats your point here?….I know he cant show up for something thats not going to be there.

By: freethediesel

freethediesel — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:10:19 +0000

Yeah, this is obviously a fight for lawyers but isn’t attendance at zero out of zero off season trainings 100% attendance? I think these guys are good.

Not that I feel bad for them otherwise.

By: mike11119

mike11119 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:53:08 +0000

fire all the players and start over.

By: FinFan68

FinFan68 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:54:41 +0000

silversun60 says:
Mar 17, 2011 3:24 PM
FinFan…..
0 divided by 0 is 0. So by that logic they didn’t meet the 85%….. they participated in 0% of workouts.

No chance any of them get paid workout money without any workouts happening
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Ugh, the point is in order to deny the player the bonus money they have to be able to say that he didn’t show up to at least 85% of the scheduled workouts. If they don’t schedule any then he can’t fail to show up. That would be like denying a roster bonus to a player because the team decided to not have an official roster until after the specific date has passed.

By: silversun60

silversun60 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:43:26 +0000

oldpftusernewname: you just blew my mind!

By: thestrategyexpert

thestrategyexpert — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:51:58 +0000

Can you clarify what the contracts say? If DF gets the bonus for appearing in at least 85% of the workouts, but their are zero workouts, then he is compliant because he hasn’t missed any workouts right? Or if say there is only 1 workout scheduled right before the season, then all he has to do is make 1/1 when that 1 is scheduled later on even though it is much later than the normal time right? What does the specific language say, do we know?

By: oldpftusernewname

oldpftusernewname — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:41:01 +0000

Oh, Silversun60, don’t you remember: You can’t divide by zero, you’ll break everything that way!

By: cdaws84

cdaws84 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:39:32 +0000

Looks like Brady pplanned on the lockout…why else did he add that workout clause….

By: silversun60

silversun60 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:24:50 +0000

FinFan…..
0 divided by 0 is 0. So by that logic they didn’t meet the 85%….. they participated in 0% of workouts.

No chance any of them get paid workout money without any workouts happening.

By: thefiesty1

thefiesty1 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:23:08 +0000

These guys made their bed siding with the union. Now they get to lay in it. Too bad, I’m sorry for your loss. Not!

By: bluvayner

bluvayner — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:12:01 +0000

Brady’s workout clause is meaningless, because there is no way that he’s ever going to hit 90% again. He spends most of the offseason in California, Costa Rica, Brazil, and chasing Giselle around Europe. He only shows up in Foxboro for the OTAs.

By: jtotharoc

jtotharoc — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:03:41 +0000

I know this is a business and all but the consumers (fans) haven’t been considered throughout these negotiations. To hear owners and players arguing over billions of dollars when most of the people who watch the sport make considerably less than even a practice squad player is just sickening. I feel like they should handle their retired players health care similar to how we handle VA except the cost of the healthcare comes from the owners/players pockets.

By: beastofeden

beastofeden — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:12 +0000

Im sure he made $750,000 last season by working out in the off season.

Only an idiot would blow that in a year

By: mark0226

mark0226 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:01:15 +0000

“Brady’s contract has a clause that increases his 2012 workout bonus to $500,000 if there are no 2011 workouts.”

So, let me get this straight. The Players (NFLPA) sued the NFL for including Lockout Insurance in their TV Contracts, but they included Lockout Insurance in their OWN contracts?

By: mick730

mick730 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:57:01 +0000

So, let me get this straight; the NFL owners pay these einsteins six figure bonuses just to stay in shape so they can perform in their CHOSEN “profession”?

Yes indeed Messers. Peterson and Mendenhall, slavery indeed.

By: FinFan68

FinFan68 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:47:16 +0000

85% of 0 is 0. If the team does not hold any workouts then the player did not fail to comply and would likely get his money.

By: philriverslovespenis

philriverslovespenis — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:44:53 +0000

No big deal for Cutler. He would’ve just “injured” himself anyway.

By: skoobyfl

skoobyfl — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:40:32 +0000

Boo Hoo.

By: ohenry78

ohenry78 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:38:22 +0000

Gee, good think they decided to decertify instead of negotiate more.

By: motorcitykitties

motorcitykitties — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:36:14 +0000

I’m sure this was factored into the NFLPA’s actions at the negotiating table.. or am I giving the players too much credit?