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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1064800" data-attributes="member: 18006">I know you're kidding, but he doesn't dare. This is basically a "prove it" contract.I'm sure he was planning on making a lot more money by the end of his career than he has so far, and at his age he's only going to have one more shot at a jackpot contract. He needs to have a stellar season with the Ravens in order to prove to some team next year that he's worth double-digit millions; he's likely to be more highly motivated this season than he's ever been in his life.I don't know if this is strue or not, but his father is saying that Green Bay only offered him 4.3, with incentives possibly brining it up to $6m total - basically the same amount as Baltimore offered, but with a less favorable incentive structure. If that's true, I'm surprised, but perhaps it's a measure of just how thoroughly fed up Gute actually was with his availability issues. I'm not surprised Jaire would turn that down, because I'm sure he was expecting to get some offers much larger than that. His dad also said that he believes Green Bay would have traded him before the start of the season, which I think is probably a reasonable guess.</blockquote>

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