XPost: alt.sports.football.pro.phoe-cardinals, alt.politics.equality,   
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   From: invalid@dont-email.me   
      
   If you're a professional sports franchise and an agent looking to   
   extricate yourselves from a situation that makes your most important   
   player/client from looking so disengaged that he has to be paid extra just   
   to prepare himself for games like parents bribing a teenager with extra   
   deserts if he promises to stop robbing prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto and   
   do his math homework:   
      
   Kyler Murray Says It's 'Disrespectful' and 'Almost a Joke' to Question Him   
   Getting Paid Extra to Study Film 4 Hours a Week   
   Patrick Smith. Getty Images.When you're recent No. overall pick who just   
   got re-upped on a $230 million extension, despite your sub-.500 career   
   record and coming off a playoff stat line of 19 of 34, ...   
      
   barstoosports   
      
   … well it's almost impossible to find a worse way to make the situation go   
   away than the Cardinals and Kyler Murray's representatives just did. No   
   sooner did news of the bizarre, terrible-look incentive clause the two   
   sides negotiated became public, that they agreed to get rid of it.   
      
   So presumably, a boardroom filled with professionals in business attire   
   sat around a boardroom hammering out a $230 million contract. Someone   
   brought up the perceived problem of Kyler Murray not putting enough   
   preparation into his quarterbacking. Someone else suggested maybe he could   
   get paid extra to do the bare minimum required of someone in his   
   influential position. Someone asked how much time they were talking about.   
   A number was arrived at. The other side asked how much four hours a week   
   (just under 35 minutes per day) was worth. That dollar figure was arrived   
   at. Handshakes all around, followed by signatures. Everyone was happy.   
      
   That is, until someone leaked it to Ian Rapoport. Then it became an   
   embarrassment to the team and to Murray. He then tossed detonator caps   
   onto the fire by complaining about the fact anyone would complain about   
   it. And suddenly that incentive clause gets torn out of the legally   
   binding agreement like the Sanity Clause in a Marx Brothers bit:   
      
   Nothing to see here. Everything is super swell. Kyler Murray is the   
   hardest working man in the quarterback business, with an almost   
   clairvoyant power to know what an opponent is going to do before they do   
   it. Without all that time wasted sitting in a film room studying looks and   
   tendencies that most of the other QBs do.   
      
   But if either side thought that quietly taking that incentive out of the   
   deal would make this firestorm go away and restore confidence in Murray,   
   they've got another thing coming.   
      
      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)