Need a Raise Anyone?
Are you under contract at your current job, but feel you’re underpaid? It appears that’s how Bills left tackle, Jason Peters feels. He has yet to show up for any of the teams OTA’s, which Dick Jauron did say were not mandatory. But let’s face it, it does seem as though it’s highly encouraged to be there. Peters has 3 years left on his current deal which he signed in 2006. He will get paid roughly 4 million dollars if he hits all incentives, and the rumblings are that it’s not enough for him. While his agent and the Bills have yet to comment on this topic, it does seem to be contract related. It’s pretty outrageous if that’s what this is about. I mean, where else can you sign a contract and feel you’ve outperformed your current deal, so why not rip it up.. right? It’s crazy! What if the Bills do renegotiate his current deal, and he doesn’t play to the level he did last season? Will he give money back? I don’t think so. I know he’s not the only player out there that has done or will do this, but this practice is hard to fathom for fans who can’t understand how 4 million a year is just not enough. The bottom line is: he did agree to his current deal at one time and sign it. It was good then, and at the time he must have felt the length of the deal was also what he wanted. Let us know how you feel about professional athletes that take this stance with their contracts.
posted by Robin Adams at
5:12 PM
2 Comments:
I think it's ridiculous to do this kind of thing when you have a year remaining on your deal.....but 3 is outrageous. He signed the deal and has incentives built into it (which is something all sports contracts should be built around...incentives), he should honor his deal and then seek an extension in 2 years.
Both Phil and Robin missed a very important point that I can summarize in 2 words:
Aaron Schoebel
He didn't make any public beef about his contract, but as soon as the Bills signed Kelsay to his new contract, they then voluntarily redid Schoebel's contract, which oh yeah still had 3 years left as well. That frankly was about the stupidest contract extension I ever heard of...3 years before it expires...and he's hardly all world.
So now we have almost the exact same situation on the offensive line, and the idiotic Bills have opened themselves up to this. How can you blame Peters one bit for asking the Bills to do what they already did on the other side of the line?
So let's cut Peters a lot more slack here. These are nothing more than stupid, voluntary OTAs going on right now. I think Peters is playing a very fair card right now. I do hope he shows up for the mandatory stuff...if he does, I'll frankly totally respect his position.
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