Redskins elect not to pay Trent Williams' $5.1M salary

[Posse Lover]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28036330/redskins-elect-not-pay-trent-williams-51m-salary

Sorry if this has been posted and discussed.

I was saying something to this effect when he ended his holdout. Put him on the PUP list and not pay him nada. Keep him healthy and trade him. Thoughts

 

[Beetlejuice]

I love it, because I think he's lying and doing everything out of greed.

 

[fansince62]

With everything else going on.....too empty to care any longer.

It's not even clear to me the real drivers behind a lifelong identification with a professional football team. It certainly isn't the emotional roots one carries through life to our collegiate days and teams....those evocative feelings of transition, new responsibilities and independence. I know early ni it was simple - winning. It wasn't friendly. I wanted my Redskins to beat the living tar out of every foe. I wanted to see excellence. I wanted to walk on a high every Sunday and, not infrequently, in January. From the arrival of Vince Lombardi to the peaks of Joe Gibbs - the franchise delivered. Then, like the NFL itself, it began to change. The character of the players changed. The rules changed. The money flowed in torrents. Politics intruded into sport. The ownership changed.

The franchise doesn't deliver any longer. And neither does the NFL. It's detached from its history. Simply another TV production. It's dying - but doesn't know it yet.

 

[Bulldog]

Another potential grievance and suit.

Yes, as with McCloughan the team will probably prevail but it is just another distraction that should have been dealt with months ago.