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Titans are encouraging Brett, whom they cut, to stay on the ready in the event their rookie doesn't cut it.


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23 minutes ago, Rochesterfan said:

Isn’t this essentially what the Bills did with Matt Barkley yesterday.

You are a vested veteran- stay around and maybe we can find a spot for you.

 

Not at all.  Matt is a smart guy.  He could read the tea leaves and know, when the Bills signed him after signing Keenum, he was coming back here to be the PS QB.

 

It would be analogous to the Bills telling Barkley, "We won't offer you any job, including a spot on our practice squad.  But please turn down any job offers you may receive in favor of sitting in your living room waiting for us to call"

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40 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

Is this legal?

 

 

 


The legality, not the player

 

 

Yeah, why would it not be legal?

 

It might be sketchy ethics - there was stuff in the media a few years back about how the Patriots would over-promise and string guys along to get them to stay available and some of the guys would turn down opportunities with bottom-feeder teams in the hopes the Championship NE Patriots would toss them a scrap.  We know where Vrabel comes from.

 

But it's not illegal, it's "On" the player if they choose to turn down an opportunity to play for the Lions or whoever in hopes of a shot with the Patriots.

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52 minutes ago, wppete said:

Would be insane if he forgoes a a years  pay in his prime earning years which he probably has a year or two left to stay on for zero money just incase….. Some really stupid people out there these days. 

 

I don't think "stupid" is the operative word here. 

 

Kern has had a 15 year NFL career with $28M career earnings.  He's been living in Tennessee for 13 years.  He's got kids, maybe they're playing sports and trying out for the school play.

 

When you've got "enough" money, whatever that means to you, you have the luxury of deciding whether to take a job that uproots your family or isolates you from them for 5-6 months, or deciding to sit on your investments.  Apparently Kern has decided that whatever investments and side businesses he has are "enough"

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4 minutes ago, Captain Caveman said:

Did he actually say the Bills offered to bring him in and he said no, or just that he's not signing here.  Based on the other punter already being in town today I'd guess Kern maybe wasn't their first choice.

 

It was reported that the Bills had reached out to him (immediately after he was cut) but he was "weighing all his options"

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