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Originally Posted by tryfuhl
Yeah the way he's playing in the 3-4 you can tell that his heart isn't in it.
Wait.. what?
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i dont think its the 3-4 he is necessarily unhappy with, i think its the fact that he is due to make 3.8 mil this year and he thought by this time, after the draft, he would have already been shipped to a new team and would be negotiating a new contract for 8-10 mil a season.
Heard on the mike wise show phillip daniels called him before the draft to tell him the end spot is reserved for him. AH's response? yeah well see after the draft. Wise also said that shanny hasnt been in contact with him since he showed up that first day and the team used a vet leader like daniels (who has a good relationship with AH) to act as a median in getting the message to him.
i understand peoples position on this that we'll cross that bridge (what to do with AH) when we get to it but there are some seriously unprecendented things going on right now. the contract was absurdly frontloaded to a player with a rep for being motivated by only money.
i find the postering of both sides interesting. the new FO im sure wouldnt have done such a deal that left no monetary incentive for AH to play after the first 13 months. AH took the money with the expectation that he would be able to force his way out of it once he collected the 32 mil.
AH is set to make 3.8 mil this year. Im surprised so many on here dont take that into consideration for the way AH has acted the second the season ended.
IMO the 3-4 and other things are the only semi-legit "concerns" AH can put forth since he cant come out and say I dont want to play for 3.8 mil for the next 3 years (since he got paid 22 mil in April)
Im just surprised so few dont take into consideration that the real source of AH's malcontent is the remaining portion of his contract. If we had given him a reasonable normal contract which paid him 10 mil a season, I think he would be more willing to toe the company line.