I may be wrong on this, but I think he’s cratered his own value.  He’ll have to take a one-year ‘prove-it’ contract, I bet.

Yes.  For the contract to be valid, the player has to report to work.  Events unfolded fast, and I guess Antonio’s representatives didn’t get a chance to intervene effectively on this, but when he requested a release and it was granted by the Raiders, that’s pretty above-board and hard to characterize as unfair.

To be...I dunno, fair-ish? to the Skins...they haven’t really overpaid any insane malcontents.

Randy Moss was thought to be a malcontent and a locker room annoyance for the Oakland Raiders, and he managed to keep himself in check until his last year in New England.

When the right gets a little tired or doesn’t perform as well, get on the other side and go with the left.

Thanks for keeping us on top of this rapidly developing story Lauren.

Yeah, but I’m guessing it’s academic by now, since he asked to be released from his contract and by the team, and was granted that wish, hot off the Tweeterpress.

Yeah, and I hope it’s the mechanism where the arbiter is agreed upon by the NFL and the NFLPA (such as it is), I confuse leagues and their byzantine regulations sometimes. We really should just stick to sprots.

I posted on this elsewhere. I don’t claim that Antonio Brown shouldn’t have borne “any kind of consequences”. I do claim that an employer normally has to impose a consequence that’s proportional to the infraction.

I think there’s more nuance there that you’re glossing over. I’m not saying that Antonio should skate on all of this, I think the Raiders would have been justified in applying progressive discipline, with the necessary intervening step of suspension for one game maybe, before jumping to the cancellation of all…

But I doubt that a verbal dustup between an employee and a manager merits voiding a US$30M contract, that’s hard to see as proportional.

You’re answering your own question when you bring up triple homicide: the crux of the issue is proportionality. Having a verbal dustup with your manager where you yell at each other isn’t a great look, but it’s almost routine in the NFL, players and superiors (coaches) get into shouting matches all the time, in the…

[Resists googling ‘wendi deng’, but only for a few seconds.]

Contracts are invalid and unenforceable if they are enjoining parties to commit an illegal act or have clauses that fall under some other regulation. For example, I can’t sue a hitman who I paid in full but who failed to murder my spouse. Similarly,an employer can’t enforce a contract whereby I agree to work for less…

I posted on this on another prior thread (there are so many), that Antonio was certainly subject to some discipline, but the voiding of a $30M in contract guarantees is such a severe penalty that I certainly don’t think there’s no recourse.

I know this happened in the Unitedstatesistan, a savage land whose political rule is passed down hereditarily by one ethnic group’s elite and which has few if any worker rights and safety nets, but a basis tenet of labour law in civilized countries is that an employer has to use progressive discipline before…

Winters I’ll tend to wear longjohns while out and about and at work, so as soon as I get back to my comparatively stifling home the pants come off and then the longjohns, and then I’ll procrastinate about putting on some shorts, so yeah, I end up in my boxers and a t-shirt until it’s time to head out again or hit the…

Both cowgirls, really.

Lions-Cardinals is inspired by the well-known maxim that when two awful people get married it’s a good thing, since that way only two people are miserable instead of four.