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Originally Posted by JPH83
The last part it's impossible to argue with. I don't doubt there are good agents but if you manage to get your client less money and possibly less success whilst pi$$ing off a fan base, you really have no business in this business.
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I think what his agent did was simply refuse to alter course.
I really think they expected that Williams, Simmons, Lawrence and Payne would end up pushing the DT market up nearer $27 million in AAV and then he'd argue that they should split the difference between that and Donald and settle in at $29/$30 million.
But when the market simply didn't do that and slotted nearer $23/24 million for similarly effective DTs this off-season, Jones and his agent simply ignored it.
They're operating in a world where the DT market was re-set by the young DTs that signed this offseason and ultimately that just didn't happen. And they're refusing to acknowledge it.
So maybe they weren't truly 'dishonest' - maybe they were flat-ass wrong. And that's gonna happen when you're a noob agent who doesn't have the contacts in this league to know how the market is going to settle in. Now I think the agent is guilty of failing to manage client expectations and has put himself firmly up shit's creek.