Arrington's Grievance

Why is Snyder letting this go on? Why not just add the freaking 6.5 mil on the deal for the leader of your team? it's not like that type of money is really going to leave a dent in Snyder's wallet and if need be we can restructure or something when the time comes. We could wind up losing Arrington and have draft picks taken from the team because of this situation. Even if the ruling goes in favor of the redskins, u've just pissed off and alienated your best defensive player. This looks more like a situation that will get worse before/if it gets better.

Sounds like it's possible that Arrington's agent is who messed up. If he approved the contract and I'm sure he probably had to sign and initial in a million places, how could an error of $6.5M slip through??

With the way agents have been screwing up lately (Owens, Northcutt), this wouldn't be at all surprising.

Why would Snyder want to screw over Arrington? I think this is a case of miscommunication between Arrington and his agent, and his agent isn't willing to admit his mistake.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the agents fault. I think that LA and his agent wanted the extra 6.5million, but it was not in the final draft of the contract. The agent (I guess) did not read it thoroughly and they went ahead and signed it assuming that it was in there. I don't think you can blame the FO on this one. To me its, its the agent's fault.

I sure hope it's the agent's fault!!! If not, it could mess up our cap numbers or worse.

I am waiting for the day when the first NFL player actually says "my agent screwed up" and then fires the agent. These agents are SO good at stroking the egos of their clients that even when the agent is obviously at fault, the player stands by their "friend" and blames the team. Yeah, I'd be your friend too if you give me a healthy cut of your earnings...

It is waaaay to early to pick sides in this one. We don't even know the facts of the matter except that one side claims that some "payment clauses" were left out of the contract and the other side says they faxed it to the agent/player and they signed it.

Wait until the presentations are made to the arbitrator/special master in th4e case and then draw your conslusions as to how all this happened and who should get a $6.5M ass-kicking.

I'm hoping for an outcome that says that Arrington and/or Poston screwed up and all this is no big deal. But there are not nearly enough facts known yet to say that is what happened.

True. I wonder if we'll get the same arbitrator we got in the Chad Morton deal. You know, the one with Skins season tickets... :)

cpayne5:

That might not be the best arbitrator for the current situation. In this case, the arbitrator will issue a ruling that is going to upset someone INSIDE the Redskins' organization. In the Morton case, he did not have to face that dilemma.

No one (except the FO) would complain about it being not fair if that were the case though. So if LA gets this 6.5 million, it will cost <1million per year against the cap, correct? Seems like very little, to me. Why not just give it to him and make him happy for the next time we need to restructure his contract? I don't see the point of making him angry and giving him reasons to want to leave.

Maybe Danny-boy could offer him one of those free upgrades? :)

:Flush: looks like to,northcutt,and big lavar's lawyers all got ran over by that
stupidity truck on it's way ignoramus avenue. :laughing-