De Smith is an extremely successful attorney. This isn’t his only gig. You won’t be seeing him selling hot dogs. Maybe he’ll buy one from you.

Just saying- we hear way too much from Q Mike, but see little on the field from him to back it up.

It’s her fault. She should have known he played for the Eagles. What did she expect?

How did this nonsense make it through admin? Ordered “random stuff” and “acted like a tool?” What does that even mean?

Anyway, you can agree with Quintin, or not agree with him, but there’s no need to make up nonsense stories about your BS “personal run-in” with a semi-famous person.

I’ve interviewed Quintin Mikell, along with many other Eagles both at training camp and in the locker room after games, and I’ve yet to find a player more consistently affable or accommodating than Quintin Mikell.

or maybe he’s still bitter he wasn’t drafted.

After hearing “welcome to the NFL. You have no job” please proceed to the waiting arms of current NFL players. There you will be officially thrown under the bus as said players will trade away a rookie wage scale for a higher % of the pie.

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Oh your right, the Vets in the league should be fighting for people who haven’t played a down to make twice as much as them …….. Fail…….

To be honest I don’t care what any players do during the draft and this is a non story.

But again I have to say I am really sick of the players being blamed. Did the players offer themselves giant crazy contracts ??? This is all the owners fault. they have been planning this for years, why do you think they hired Goodell. This whole lock out deal has been planned and excuted to a T. The owners have waged a PR campaign that has turned a lot of the fans on the players and its sad.

Why in this country are the people always on the side of the Billionaires who do everything they can to keep them selves rich and the people making them that way.

As far as a rookie wage scale, it has to happen. Its retarded that rookies end up being the highest paid in the league. But again this is the nfl’s fault not the players. If the NFL had the forsight to not sign a stupid CBA they wouldn’t be in this position. Don’t get me wrong at this point the players have to give something up as well. But the owners are the ones locking out the players. The owners are the ones who over paid players (i’m looking at you Al davis and jerry jones) Not that i agree with all they do but lets be honest here the Eagles have payed way less than those two teams and gotten way more than either of those teams combined. Perhaps if all owners were as good as Rooney, Kraft, and Laurie then we wouldn’t be in this position. Also the NFL’s greed of going into cities that couldn’t support NFL teams (jacksonville, Tampa, Carolina) not that the fans arn’t good in these cities, they just don’t have enough fans. This is lock out is because of major greed on one side and minor greed on the other, but hey this is America. Land of Ayn Rand type thinkers who think its moral to destroy others in pursuit of a dollar.

Its pretty sad that these people are willing to risk what happened to MLB and the NHL. Remember the NFL wouldn’t even be the top dog if not for the fact MLB went on strike in the early 90′s and the NHL could be bigger than the NBA at the pace they were going till their strike.

They are all willing to risk millions to make a few hundred thousand more a year. This is another silly reason to abandon this money first mentality we have.

It’s all a bunch of Over-hyped, promotional/marketing to get you suckers to watch your TV and be subjected to the BS Advertising.
Are you a bunch of trolls? i tell you what, just sign over your paychecks right now to Coors, and budwieser, Nike and Body Armour cause that what your doing.
Work your menial jobs to make money to pay for your cable so that they can turn around and pay for programming from the network who then turns around to pay for network rights to an event who then turns to the players and offers them your money. Sorry, but i worked to hard for mine to offer a 20yr old kid more money than ALL of us on this blog make in a lifetime.

Because the lockout has cast a pall on events, I’m sure ratings will be down. But I doubt that will phase the owners. Ratings don’t affect their revenues from ESPN. And if they cared about ratings for the NFL Network, they’d play nice with the cable companies.

Spot on. THis is looking more and more like the lockout of the NHL back in 04-05. Smith is taking a page roght out of Bob Goodenow’s book. The NHL still hasn’t fully recovered since that one. They even booted Goodenow from the NHLPA after that fiasco. Could Smith be next?

I’ll be watching the draft. And I have not spoken to one NFL fan that isn’t.

But new players should fear not, they’ll have their union dues forced from them, without choice, soon enough. They’ll be forced to pay for something that does them no good fast enough. Fear not, current players. Maybe it’s you who should attend the draft and thank them for letting you steal their cash without being allowed to fight that.

De Smith never once took the “high road”, he only walked around with a “puss” on his face and dared anyone to try and stop him from biting off his nose to spite his face. Instead of comporting himself with dignity with a healthy respect for the “other side”, he decided to “show the world” just how “tall” he is by using hubris and animosity as bargaining tools. It’s difficult to imagine how the players have followed this guy down this destructive path. Pitiful. Just pitiful.

The players could end the lockout as easily as the owners.