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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I'm not sure what the fine situation is on regular season games, but if he sits out 8 games and drops his base salary for the year down to $14 million, he's going to lose the benefit of his massive cap number next year.
AND he's going to simply be out $10+ million for the games he's missed and probably $2-3 million more on fines.
With less leverage to boot.
How does ANY of this help him in a cash drive? He starts probably $20 million underwater by taking this approach.
I've gotta believe it's a bluff, still. This just doesn't make any sense.
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The only thing I could think of would be injury probability between now and week 8 that he would be taking off the table.
While I'm sure its a very low chance, if he came back now and tore his ACL or whatever between now and week 8 at age 30+ I'm not sure he even gets that $25M contract that should be what he is signing for now.
I'm also thinking that players before draft get insurance to cover injury and such so I'd think Jones could get something that could cover him for cheaper than a $10M premium? But maybe not haha