Terrel Owens: Not A Free Agent?
 

[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1745092[/url]

[b]SAN FRANCISCO -- Terrell Owens is still under contract to the San Francisco 49ers after the star receiver apparently missed a deadline for voiding the rest of his contract.

Owens, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, didn't file the necessary paperwork quickly enough this week to become an unrestricted free agent, according to the NFL Management Council. Owens' agent, David Joseph, will file a grievance.[/b]

Oops! :p

Hahaha, I hope hes stuck there now. What a stupid thing to do, I wonder if that one is on TO or his agent.

too funny. Now the Eagles can't get him w/o some type of compensation I would believe, and being how cheap the Eagles are, they may pass.

I sure hope TO's agent has malpractice insurance, and lots of it...

Is that the same agent he signed the football with the sharpie for? That guy better start looking for a new client real soon...lol

Ha Ha Ha!! I would kill my freeking agent!!

Sucker...couldn't happen to a better guy. Maybe he should read things before he signs with the Sharpie!

I guess he couldnt pull the Sharpie out quite fast enough this time...

Moron, now hes the laughing stock of the whole league.

I hope he is forced to stay in S.F. and cant get out, that would be halarious.

Yes, he's a Pro Athelete with an agent and a contract thats probably 50 pages long. This is on his agent, I'm sure he told him he wanted out. If not he told everyone else!

I still see him being traded. He doesn't want to be there and he is a good receiver, nobody can deny it! Maybe they'll get a 1st rounder or so since they know he doesn't want to be there. Or maybe he wants to give that new coach another chance!

The problem is that the original deadline prior to the last collective bargaining agreement was 2nd March. This changed when the CBA was re-worked and it appears that the NFLPA neglected to tell anyone that players wishing to void portions of contracts and therefore activate their right to free agency would need to do so earlier than was originally the case.

Dennis Northcutt at the Browns has had the same problem and there will be plenty of others.

My guess is that if the NFLPA holds it's hands up then TO etc will be able to test free agency anyway as the error is not theirs.


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Thanks for clarifying, Diesel.

Hahaha...what a fricking idiot.

you obviously missed the last point..... this is NOT the fault of Owens or his agent.... it is the fault of the NFLPA.

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[QUOTE=dieselhog]you obviously missed the last point..... this is NOT the fault of Owens or his agent.... it is the fault of the NFLPA.

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So you're telling us that his agent bears no responsibility for knowing what's in his client's contract, the contract that he himself negotiated, yet the NFLPA is responsible for knowing what's in over 1,800 players' contracts?

Apparently, that's how it used to work and all players were notified. It's on NFL.com. I agree that they should know but he did nothing wrong in terms of the rules when his contract was negotiated.

Under the old law he would have had to apply for free agency by 2nd March but the NFL are saying that the NFLPA did not inform agents of the rule change and so they were all gearing up for the 2nd March deadline.

I know it all seems a bit weird but I can't believe that all of the agents would've missed it.

How much coin would TOs agent be missing out on? Theres no way he would just LET that happen.

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I don't care who you point the finger at..it's still funny. Now the Philly Beagles will have to provide COMPENSATION to the 49ers in return for their WR savior. That is the really good news out of all of this!

It is funny, yes. V funny. I just have a feeling that the NFLPA might be made to admit that an error was made. There is a lot of $ at stake here and as we all know, the NFL dosen't like to miss $ opportunities.

I know TO says he wants to play in Philly but will the Eagles be prepared to pay that sort of money of him? I'm not sure, it could be interesting.

:rolleyes:

From the S.F. media: "don't expect Owens to be in S.F. next year. Owens is to the 49ers as same sex marriage is to President Bush". It just keeps getting better.

dieselhog
That is not a very good excuse. The players Agents get paid a ton of money to represent the players. This is their (agents) profession, the Agents should be up on the latest rule changes. The NFLPA does not own the only copy of the owners/players collective bargaining agreement. Each agent should own and absorb the section related to player contracts and deadlines.
If my lawyer were not up to date on the latest law changes related to our bussiness and most importantly our livelyhood, I would get one that kept up with it.

My understanding is that, although a team must now compensate the 49ers with trades, picks, etc., the upside is that, since TO is still under his old contract, the finacial cost might end up being a lot less than if they'd had to negotiate a new contract with him. So, even if the NFLPA doesn't relent on the paperwork issue, the Eagles might still consider trading for TO.

--Phin

Good as long as he doesn't come to the NFC east I'll be happy. Hell we're already going to have take on me-shawn and cowgirls next season with no champ so this is a plus for us

The addition of Sean Taylor will certainly help our situation against dallas, especially with champ leaving.

[COLOR=DarkRed]i would really hate to be TO's agent nowadays.sitting on the hotseat must feel cool to him about now.i heard on espn news that missing that filing deadline could cost TO almost 13 million dollars.....
i would hate to be his agent.can you smell a lawsuit???i still think that its funny,but hey dennis nortcutt of clevland did the same thing.college degrees earned by atheletes ai'nt what they used to be are they??? :D [/COLOR]

The real shocker here is that Terrell Owens's agent has one client - Terrell Owens. It's not like he was taking care of fifty other guys, and forgot about TO's deadline.

What I don't understand is why didn't this agent file the papers the day after the season ended? It's not a contest to see who can file last.

One client... He should maybe advertise a little!