Maurice Jones-Drew ends holdout; returns to Jacksonville Jaguars

you made thr contract live by it as we have to. i think if you sign a contract you should have to live by it,as this is how we end up with these delays, this man is all for himself forgeting his team of blockers helped in his sucess,so in thinkihg like that the linemen should be the one's to get the raise shouldn't they?

What's up, these guys think they don't have to honor their contracts, I think he has two more years at around 4 million per year.

Ya, and if he sucks this year do you think he'll let the jags restructure and pay him less???? Dude better look up the definition of "contract."

you signed the deal and have been paid beyond fairly to play fukin football. if i were the jags id have kept fining him for missed practice and when he wanted to report so as not to damage his stock for a trade next year id have locked his stupid #$%$ out

It's nice that someone "did the math", finally.
But IF they don't enforce the FINES, isn't that sending a similar message?

That's what kills me about athletes! They have a break out season and automatically feel they are "entitled" to get paid more because other "elite" players get paid more. Fine, then their contract should say that if they don't get "x" amount of yards or whatever then they get money taken away.

He shows up 5'7" and 125 lbs...lol...

I dont care who you are, you signed and agreed to a contract. You should be expected to live up to that agreement.

Why don't these teams/players just start signing 2 year contracts at a time. The players don't honor their long term contracts anyway.
When's the last time you heard of a high profile player signing a 7-8 yr deal, and then playing for the agreed amount for the length of the contract? Or NOT holding out, not sitting out claiming "injury", not using the press/twitter to whine, or not being an overall distraction to the team...because half way through the contract they are no longer satisfied with their pay. (Usually because someone else signed yesterday for more money and they think "hey...I'm better than him, I deserve more now.") NO #$%$ you don't. You deserve to be paid for the contracted amount YOU agreed to. Shut up and play. Sign a new contract when you fulfill the old one.
Long term contracts are no guarantee for owners that players will stay anyway. No loyalty and no honor on either side. Just greed. Save US the drama and yourselves the disgrace.
2 years just makes sense to me.

You know, I don't follow this stuff much but doesn't this guy belong to the player's union? If so, are they just allowed to break away and demand what they want?
At what point do the owners have to reach before they decide that it might be better to just let him go?

When these guys sign the contracts they love getting that fat money in the beginning. By the time they get near the end they dont like it so much. But who signed the contract? The terms are spelled out in black and white from the start. If you have a problem with the back end of the deal then don't sign it to begin with!!

so much for my rashaad jennings pick

Then the Arizona cardinals can re-negotiate Kevin Kolb,s contract from $60,000,000 to $100,000 for sitting in the bench........

How much did it cost him?

Good for Jacksonville. Make him abide by his contract. They want long term contracts for stability, but want to renegotiate when they have a stellar year. If that is the way they want it, they should just sign one year contracts.

This is America, where people with no knowledge or intelligence can talk about their opinions like they know what they are talking about(or forget about their own life mishaps). It seems most people are posting out of envy and prejudice rather than true principle. First, he is not wanting to break his contract, he is asking for a contract restructure of extension(a raise, you know what most Americans want). Every day people, who have salary receive raises and promotions that requires a restructure or amendment to their initial employment contract.On the opposite, many jobs have inquired many people to amend there contracts to do more or receive less. Happens in the NFL all the time. Second, Khan and other owners have the option to cut players and not even honor a contract, remember Donovan McNabb with the Redskins. It goes both ways. I hope the many people who are talking about honoring contract have not engaged in any mortgage, auto loan, private loan, consolidation, etc restructures or amendment, because that would make u a big hypocrite, considering 75% of the country has done such just within the last 4 years.

if i don't show up for work, ummm, i get fired! i thought it was that way for most jobs.
i guess that applies for all but cry baby premadonnas in sports. just cant imagine, all that money to play a childs game.
what happened to the old work incentive, "work or get fired?"

Pardon my ignorance, but if you sign a contract and the owner cuts you, is the team still on the hook for salary you were due under that contract?

rb playing life is shorter than most other players...because other (mostly younger) players make more than mjd isn't a reason to redo his contract...my thought is he is probably receiving questionable acvise from his agent...betting more than a million that a holdout would work seems shortsighted at best...btw, farrar is a #$%$..

he will rush for 900 yards this season ad report, "i just don't understand"