
Runs to Sleeper to see who’s screwed...
*sheepishly raises hand
Report: AB threatened to punch Mayock in the face. My "gone by Sunday" prediction might be too generous.
Edit: Burfict held him back! Did Incognito tell him to take it easy, too?
Which will happen first: AB's suspension confirmed, or the posting of the Week 1 thread?!
It's not the second quarter of tonight's first game yet, why would we expect a thread already?
If AB is suspended, PFT seems to think the Raiders can dump his guaranteed money. That's hilarious if it happens because AB's gone off the deep end.
Jayhawker wrote:Runs to Sleeper to see who’s screwed...
*sheepishly raises hand
Laughing at you, Old Man!
https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/...On March 10th, Jayhawker wrote:The Raiders acquired a WR at peak Diva. What could possibly go wrong?
That thread included these details that I forgot:
*Legion* wrote:Antonio Brown traded to the Raiders for 3rd and 5th round picks. Also the Raiders are giving him an extra $11 million added onto his contact. Not an extension, no extra years, just a pay increase. I'm assuming that pay increase is guaranteed money.
EDIT: Wow, even more than that. They didn't just guarantee the $11 million of new money, they turned existing money into guaranteed.
He went from $39 mil with no guaranteed to $50 million with $30 million of that guaranteed.
Spotrac's numbers confirm these early reports. $30.125m fully guaranteed: $1m of signing bonus, plus fully guaranteed salaries in 2019 ($14.625m) and 2020 ($14.5m).
The guaranteed salary brings to mind the Brock Osweiler contract, in which the guaranteed money could be taken off the original team's books via trade because it's salary. Only the paltry $1m of signing bonus is impossible to move.
Not that anything will happen before this season, but if we're going into the 2020 offseason with this drama, maybe we could see that kind of "take him plus this pick to get him off our cap" deal happen again.
The Raiders and AB have a lot of beers for folks to hold.
Is the legalese the reason they keep kicking any announcement about a suspension down the road or are they thinking about doing more?
I don't want to suggest I've checked out even more from the NFL, but I literally just realized the season kicks off tonight.
My favorite article about it yet:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, . . .When Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown went after Raiders General Manager Mike Mayock, threatening to punch his boss in the face, he had to be held back by at least one teammate.
And according to Vic Tafur of TheAthletic.com, that teammate was linebacker Vontaze Burfict.
Naturally.
The idea of the oft-suspended linebacker — who, by the way, once knocked Brown out of a playoff game with a vicious shot to the head — being the voice of reason is more perfectly Raiders than anything.
The two began burying the hatchet months ago, when coach Jon Gruden paired them for the team’s OTA Family Feud.
So naturally, Burfict was the one to bring the temperature down.
Kush15 wrote:Jayhawker wrote:Runs to Sleeper to see who’s screwed...
Here's a hint for who has him in Dynasty....
Dynasty is the worst. Anyone that picked him in a redraft this year should have known what they were getting into. But you drafted AB in friggin 2012.
Technically someone who peaced out after 2016 drafted him in 2012, and he inherited the team I wanted to claim in 2017 instead of the team I got He got a team with brown, evans, and diggs on it. I think I got a team who had traded away the 2nd pick of the 2016 draft and another player for Donte Moncrief.
My last football lock for a good while. *sniff*
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