Yes, they did. The contract allows them to cut him and yet he gets to keep all the up-front bonus money and the pay for all the games he didn’t play due to injury. THE ABILITY TO CUT A PLAYER IS IN THE CONTRACT!!!

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Because the NFL is allowed to operate a a monopoly. If a person wants to be a professional football player in this country he has to play in the NFL and that means they have submit to bull**** hypocrisy like this.

Yes, they did. The contract allows them to cut him and yet he gets to keep all the up-front bonus money and the pay for all the games he didn’t play due to injury. THE ABILITY TO CUT A PLAYER IS IN THE CONTRACT!!!

The Jags hold all the cards. They don’t need to do anything. I think we’ll see Jones-Drew miss training camp but he’ll be back when the game checks start getting printed.
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Oh ya, “The Jags hold all the cards.”

If he holds out, the Jags will have to rent more tarps, allot more..

Think about THAT for a second.

Counting down the days till when NFL teams start holding out salaries because players didn’t meet goals.
Think it won’t happen? Once more, with feeling: today the average Master’s degree recipient makes less over his entire lifetime than the average NFL player does in ONE YEAR, given that information 20 years ago, would you have ever thought a person playing a game for a living would hold out for more money, even after signing an extension – as a non-featured back – for 31 million dollars with a signing bonus of 17.5 million? Sounds ridiculous, right?

These guys learned nothing from the lock out. Maybe some kid in the Jax area will send him $3.36 cents so he can see his favorite player on the field a la Brandon Jacobs’ biggest fan. Or… MAYBE HE’LL JUST SHOW UP AND PLAY FOOTBALL.

Good for him.

Can’t stand not being near the highest paid? Don’t sign long term. No sympathy.

Mojo should get every dime he can get and if he can get one more dime next year he should do it again. If teams don’t like it they should guarantee contracts.”

Actually, the contracts are written with the allowed provision to “cut” players, and not owe them non-gaurnteed money. The language is in the contract and the players understand it at signing.

Holding out, would be the equivalent of a team refusing to pay guaranteed money. Imagine the firestorm that would occur if teams started doing that.

Second, MJD *didn’t* outperform his current contract. Remember, at the time he was *not* the featured, every-down back and the Jaguars still paid him like one, taking the chance that he couldn’t handle the load.

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Uh, no. Frontloading contracts benefits the players. Take Revis for example. He got $30 mill over the first 2 years and is set to get $10 mill over the last 2 (the numbers may not be totally accurate). Now that he’s gotten the bulk of his money (in the FRONT half of the contract), he wants to hold out again. Lance Briggs was the same way.

The Jets paid revis a 4 year contract that averaged $10mill/yr but but he views himself as a $15 mill/yr cornerback who had 2 dummy years on his contract. No cornerback is worth $15 mill/yr.

No it’s not. The Jaguars should have to honor his contract too, but if they wanted to cut him tomorrow they can and will.

Mojo should get every dime he can get and if he can get one more dime next year he should do it again. If teams don’t like it they should guarantee contracts.

Create a system that is fairer to ones that produce and not one that pays for promise.

Considering the way the rate RBs are discarded once the tires start to fall off I don’t blame MJD for trying to maximize his value while it’s still there.

Not to mention in the NFL you could be cut at anytime so why expect to hold the player accountable to their contract but not the team.

On the flip side I understand the Jaguars side of things. MJD is not on his rookie contract and the Jags already took care of him with another contract recently. Also there is a lot of miles on that ride so I probably wouldn’t want to invest long term either if I’m the Jags.

If you thought you were going to outperform your contract than why did you agree to it in the first place MJD? Why not agree to a shorter deal? Of course the answer is a longer deal means more guaranteed money and you get the keep that if you don’t outperform your contract or injured through it. That’s the gamble you take when you sign a contract.

MJD has two years left on his deal so I think he should at least play out one more year before demanding another new contract. If he was still on rookie deal I would be more sympathetic.

If he plays this year, they will probably be 4-12… If he doesnt they’ll probably be 3-13. Big deal….

I’m with the team on this one. He’s only getting $9 million over the next two years because he took a big chunk of this contract in guaranteed money up front. That was a risk the team took. The risk for MJD was that he might out-perform the deal, which he has.

That said, I don’t expect them to extend the deal this year. Next year is a different story. And I fully expect MJD to hold out through training camp and the first few preseason games. I won’t sweat it until the regular season is upon us and #32 is not in the backfield.

That being said, be a man… Honor your contract, the one you signed and agreed to.

But my GOD man, you just signed a contract before last season!!

Multiple times in the past MJD has demanded his contract be modified to address his “outperforming his contract”, this clause’s purpose is to allow MJDs contract to be modified by the team at such time that they believe he is “underperforming”.