Arrington Interview

First time for everything, Cpayne! woo zing!

The only thing I like that he said is that it wont effect his play or relationship with the coaches. I mean, he is freakin insane if he thinks he has a case. I mean if he got screwed over, it happens to everyone, but he signed it, so theres nothing he can do about it. I'm sure that 6.5 million isnt gonna stop him from feeding his kids or whatever, the guy still has a boatload of money

Unreal. It really makes you wonder...

Why didn't the interviewer ask about the fact that the contract would be unacceptable to the skins with the added 6.5 in 2006? How does LA explain that? And why didn't his agent notice that it was missing if they had just negotiated about THAT VERY POINT? What, he didn't check to see if the new bonus that was at issue in the phone call was included? What was he looking for?

It sounds to me like Poston is so far up Lavar's ass that LA has no idea what's going on. Maybe LA didn't want a contract with three sixes, but do you really think that this was an issue for Poston? Wha?

Lavar, just because your agent says he a Christian doesn't mean he not the: :FIREdevil

I know LA is weird and can seem really off but more importantly...

I LOVE how DS always goes out and spends the money for FAs instead of keeping the profits, but I am sick of always being involved in rumors of dirty dealing. Winnning is not that cool when nobody respects the organization.

Winnning is not that cool when nobody respects the organization.


Your right, winning is even cooler. Who really gives a rats ass what everyone else thinks. In my opinion, it will make it all the more sweeter if everyone hates the hell out of us. This "dirty dealing" is nonsense becasue, a) EVERY team tampers, so when we do it who cares. b) That whole Milloy nonsense was thrown out, the Chad Morton thing last year wasent on us either. LA shouldnt have signed the contract if it was messed up, its not the Skins' fault

Could you imagine if one of us signed a contract, and then weeks later realized we hadn't read it correctly, and then went to the other party and said, "hey, I didn't realize what I signed. Could I have a do-over?" We'd be laughed at.

And then Lavar gripes that Snyder "isn't a man" because he doesn't give LA whatever he wants. Sounds to me like LA is the one who needs to act more like a man. Face up to your error, eat some humble pie, and maybe the most generous organization in the league will try to work with you. Going to an arbitrator and then whining in public about Snyder, Manhood, and the Devil is ridiculous.

And if your agent, who's job it is to make sure your contract is in order, let this happen, he isn't doing his job. Standing by an incompetent is not loyalty, it's stupidity. :rant:

OK, I'm done.

This has not been the best offseason for Agents. Everyone should just have Drew Rosenhaus, hes the only one who seems to ever have his sh*t together. If he can get a guy with one leg ( McGahee ) drafed at #23, hes pretty damn good.

I really like LaVar as a player ... with Darrell Green gone, LaVar is kind of the public face of the Redskins ... but no one player is bigger than the team. If he's unhappy and it becomes a problem, we could always trade him, like we did Champ, and the Redskins would still be the Redskins. We all know the team would never agree to the figure he's claiming should have been in his contract. As a businessman, LaVar should have known what was in the contract he was signing. The whole thing smells fishy. Could it be that his agents misled him in some way?

Could you imagine if one of us signed a contract, and then weeks later realized we hadn't read it correctly, and then went to the other party and said, "hey, I didn't realize what I signed. Could I have a do-over?" We'd be laughed at.

And then Lavar gripes that Snyder "isn't a man" because he doesn't give LA whatever he wants. Sounds to me like LA is the one who needs to act more like a man. Face up to your error, eat some humble pie, and maybe the most generous organization in the league will try to work with you. Going to an arbitrator and then whining in public about Snyder, Manhood, and the Devil is ridiculous.

And if your agent, who's job it is to make sure your contract is in order, let this happen, he isn't doing his job. Standing by an incompetent is not loyalty, it's stupidity. :rant:

OK, I'm done.
All excellent points, Sleepy. I also agree with the points others have made about the absurdity of the whole thing. The more I think about it, the more it looks like Arrington and Poston screwed the pooch on this one. For one, what the hell was Arrington doing signing the finalized contract without his agent's supervision or consultation? That's just stupidity on Arrington's part, and unprofessionalism on Poston's part. These guys knew they were working with a tight deadline, and didn't take the proper precautions to ensure that the contract they were signing was the deal they agreed to (or thought they agreed to) in principle.

I was reading this old washington times article about Arrington agreeing to have the NFLPA sell Arrington merchandise, http://washingtontimes.com/sports/20040106-111100-7487r.htm, and found one part particularly interesting:

"Executives for Players Inc., the union's licensing arm, yesterday confirmed the Arrington agreement but declined to comment further. Arrington and his agents, Carl and Kevin Poston, were unavailable for comment, making the precise motivation for his turnabout unclear."

What do you all suppose the motivation was? To get the union firmly on his side for a possible showdown or to put some more money in his pocket because he knew there was no extra $6.5 million agreed to? Or something else?