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<blockquote data-quote="NorthWestCheeseHead" data-source="post: 492266" data-attributes="member: 8665"><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Man I hate how the human brain works. It enables people into operating under preconceived notions instead of trying to understand "what" and "why" someone is saying by asking them for clarification prior to launching into a mini-rant for reasons that will soon become noticeably superfluous. Moreover, it is entirely presumptuous of you to try and explain to me what my decision making process would be in a given situation; even for such a base situation.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">It's greed because he's expecting too much money for the production he's put up to this point of his career. And let's be honest here; this is a "what have you done for me lately" world that we live in. The Green Bay Packers already offered Jennings a $10 mil a year contract, and it is estimated that the length was around 4 or 5 years, so $40 - $50 mil total. In my opinion that's still a bit high for Jennings, but he's been crying about money all year long so I'm OK with sweetening the pot a bit.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">He's reportedly looking for about $1 $1.5 mil more than that a year. Even in a year that the Packers had a larger amount of cap space to play with I'd still say that $44 - $57.5 mil total for Jennings is way too much, again, chiefly on the basis of his body of work and his health. He probably asked around that figure of the Vikings, whom then reportedly balked at the suggested figure (rotoworld, sbnation, et al). Which is congruent with the reaction Jennings received from the few other teams that he courted/ courted him. Really this all smells like Jennings just wanted to go hang out with Philbin, who said "thanks, but no thanks".</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Now he's stuck coming crawling back to us for a contract which probably will be much more cap friendly.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #141414"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">P.S. That you decided to try to refute my stance in a manner that in essence contended that I was unequipped to make the comments I have about Jennings; because I'm somehow jealous, paraphrasing, about the amount of money he gets to make comparatively to my own salary is both preposterous and insulting. To further prove just how off base you were with that implication: I demand that you parse through the nearly 300 posts I have made on this form and please find one where I've ever said anything resembling "I don't like how much money professional athletes make because I don't make millions either."!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NorthWestCheeseHead, post: 492266, member: 8665"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Palatino Linotype]Man I hate how the human brain works. It enables people into operating under preconceived notions instead of trying to understand "what" and "why" someone is saying by asking them for clarification prior to launching into a mini-rant for reasons that will soon become noticeably superfluous. Moreover, it is entirely presumptuous of you to try and explain to me what my decision making process would be in a given situation; even for such a base situation.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Palatino Linotype]It's greed because he's expecting too much money for the production he's put up to this point of his career. And let's be honest here; this is a "what have you done for me lately" world that we live in. The Green Bay Packers already offered Jennings a $10 mil a year contract, and it is estimated that the length was around 4 or 5 years, so $40 - $50 mil total. In my opinion that's still a bit high for Jennings, but he's been crying about money all year long so I'm OK with sweetening the pot a bit.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Palatino Linotype]He's reportedly looking for about $1 $1.5 mil more than that a year. Even in a year that the Packers had a larger amount of cap space to play with I'd still say that $44 - $57.5 mil total for Jennings is way too much, again, chiefly on the basis of his body of work and his health. He probably asked around that figure of the Vikings, whom then reportedly balked at the suggested figure (rotoworld, sbnation, et al). Which is congruent with the reaction Jennings received from the few other teams that he courted/ courted him. Really this all smells like Jennings just wanted to go hang out with Philbin, who said "thanks, but no thanks".[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Palatino Linotype]Now he's stuck coming crawling back to us for a contract which probably will be much more cap friendly.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Palatino Linotype]P.S. That you decided to try to refute my stance in a manner that in essence contended that I was unequipped to make the comments I have about Jennings; because I'm somehow jealous, paraphrasing, about the amount of money he gets to make comparatively to my own salary is both preposterous and insulting. To further prove just how off base you were with that implication: I demand that you parse through the nearly 300 posts I have made on this form and please find one where I've ever said anything resembling "I don't like how much money professional athletes make because I don't make millions either."![/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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