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AR has the personality and tools to be one of the biggest superstars in the league. All he needs now is to be good at football

Kevin Bowen brought up something. When Darius Leonard was up for extension(same agent), he missed the first 10 days of training camp, then they extended him then he was back practicing 2 days later. This is most likely this agent's modus operandi.

Something those RBs are not ready for - the NFL market is a zero-sum game. Do they really think every other position will sacrifice their own potential pay in order to artificially raise the money RBs are getting? Some of those proposals they are floating will do exactly that. Other proposals seem incredibly misguided and will actually hurt RBs in the long-term IMO(for example shorter term rookie contracts for RBs... what do they think will happen? This will lower the value of RBs in the draft even more. Teams would just never draft a RB in the first 3 rounds... and then when negotiations for contracts come, they will be less likely to invest in players they haven't spent big draft capital... and MORE IMPORTANT - why would you spend 15M when you will be able to get the best of the new crop of RBs in the 3d-4th round because their rookie contract value has been devalued) I honestly don't know what the solution is. It sucks for the players that the position is getting devalued and the teams are actually catching up to the value they are giving up by paying top of the market value... but I'm honestly not sure any of the newly proposed "solutions" are actually solutions at all or if they would even be accepted by the rest of the league.

Yeah, I think it was @Superman that mentioned yesterday that by what Ballard said it seems like we probably haven't even offered an extension and we are waiting to see how the new coaching staff uses Taylor. I think it's reasonable for a player coming off an injury that is "serious" enough to keep him on PUP 6 months after surgery.

There is definitely some importance to appearance when you are representing other people in front of their employers, but his actions not his twitter picture is what really bugs me. Liking tweets saying Taylor should ask for a trade... engaging frivolously with the owner of the team of one (two - Leonard is his client too) of your players. I have no idea what he thinks he's doing and does he really think this is in his client's best interest? If I'm Taylor I would be seriously considering what the hell am I doing being associated with and represented by someone like this... just boggles the mind.

For whatever it's worth it seems like this agent has quite a reputation for being a horrible manager and costing his clients tons of money. He's an MMA agent and has pulled some nonsense with his clients... tried to pull hustles on his clients too... he got fired on live TV by one of his fighters too: His behavior on twitter makes perfect sense when you read just a tiny bit about him...

They should be paid their value. It's just that the value is not what many think it is. For whatever it's worth, I think teams finally are recognizing the real value of RBs... which is not very high.

Rookie scale contracts are fixed by draft position, not by playing position. Whoever was drafted at 8 this year would have gotten the exact same deal. It's not affected by the RB market at all.

This whole thing started when he changed his agent. He never said anything about contract and stuff until end of March of this year when he changed his agent and then the negotiation through the media started the VERY FIRST time he got a chance to speak in front of the media at OTAs. I guess his agent is doing his job the way he understands it and the way he thinks will best serve his client. I just don't think this is the best way to go with Irsay. Irsay LOVES his players, especially the best of them. He absolutely loved Taylor before all this %storm was going on... maybe he still does. But undermining Irsay a week after he said in front of everybody that Taylor is healed up and ready to go, especially having in mind the sensitivity this franchise has with communications about injuries of star players is very VERY far from ideal course of action IMO. BTW I would leave for everyone to make their own judgement about this agent's actions... does he really think liking tweets about Taylor needing to ask for a trade is what's best for his client? Does he even understand that BY FAR the best chance Taylor has of getting paid long lucrative deal is with the Colts? Because for ANY other team the cost of having Taylor would be not just the salary but also draft compensation of some sort?

Am I the only one who gets progressively annoyed with the way players handle themselves during contract disputes? I would much rather him just state that he's holding out than do ... whatever it is that he's doing now.

JT has not learned that one of the best ways to earn a fat paycheck (in addition to actually being good, which he is), is to ingratiate yourself with the owner. And when the owner was on one of the most popular sports shows in the country just a week ago saying JT is healed up and ready to go... maybe faking not being ready and undermining the owner is not the best way to go in this situation. IF he is actually 'faking' it.

Richardson has been hitting Vyncint Smith a lot since OTAs. Seems like one of his favorite targets so far. Possible dark horse to make the roster...

Interesting...

The Colts released Ballard's presser on the website: https://www.colts.com/news/anthony-richardson-gardner-minshew-sam-ehlinger-training-camp-chris-ballard

He's going to play...

IMO it's probably the OTs - Smith and Raimann... Q... Pittman... This season should be about Richardson and his development so... I kind of feel like the offensive players Richardson's development depends on most are the most indispensable... especially when we are thin at those positions.

They should offer him 5/60 with 36 guaranteed over the first 3 years...

I'm just glad we don't have to trade him before training camp has started. Phew!