What’s up with Jones?

[kidhawk]

He tweeted something that appears to be a defense for being called a locker room cancer. I haven’t seen that accusation before. Does anyone know what the full story is?

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[kidhawk]

Tyler Lockett responded with

“Ernest has been a great teammate! Definitely someone that I would want on my team! He does things the right way! He’s a hard worker! And he makes game changing plays! He’s definitely a player that is needed in a locker room!”


Which seems like the Jones that I’ve seen in his time here.

 

[Jville]

I'm guessing that relates to a previous venue.

There were some hard feeling generated by the Rams decision to trade him to the Titans rather than extend his contract.

 

[Seattle Person]

I'm guessing that relates to a previous venue.

There were some hard feeling generated by the Rams decision to trade him to the Titans rather than extend his contract.

Naw...it's just some nincompoop on the internet calling him a cancer because he's been traded multiple times. No one. No one has ever called Ernest Jones a bad teammate.

Fans need to chill with their emotions and reactions sometimes. Or...players just need to delete some of their social media to avoid these distractions. Probably needs a mixture of both.

 

[Jville]

With the Titans, Jones walked into an defensive team make over. Only to get traded again to the Seahawks. I'd say he still has a chip on his shoulder.

"Jones is the last piece in an offseason-long rebuild of the Titans' defense that included adding Diggs, Murray, cornerbacks L'Jarius Sneed and Chidobe Awuzie, and defensive linemen Sebastian Joseph-Day and T'Vondre Sweat, as potential starters. But he also is an added question mark for a defense trying to figure out what it'll look like when the season begins on Sept. 8."

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...ssee-titans-los-angeles-rams-nfl/74924213007/

 

[Wsumatt1982]

All speculative but after being traded twice last year he probably read or heard something we can’t see and he felt he needed to defend himself. From everything I’ve read it’s most likely not Seattle related. Seattle treats their players well.

 

[Seahawker]

All I can say is I highly doubt that originated here. Upper echolen defensive players are revered & treated like gold in Seattle, which he is.
Now quarterbacks, that's another story.

 

[Rat]

Tyler Lockett responded with

“Ernest has been a great teammate! Definitely someone that I would want on my team! He does things the right way! He’s a hard worker! And he makes game changing plays! He’s definitely a player that is needed in a locker room!”

Oh God, please tell me Lockett's tweets arent all like this.

 

[sutz]

Gotta say that's the first I ever heard about his locker room presence in any but a positive way. From what I read, his multi-trades were financial moves as much as anything.

 

[Hawkinaz]

One of the Seahawk YouTubers ( I think it may have been Dan Viens) who said he previously mentioned this on X and Jones agent responded explaining the situation that it was a nobody talking out their ass

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Naw...it's just some nincompoop on the internet calling him a cancer because he's been traded multiple times. No one. No one has ever called Ernest Jones a bad teammate.

Fans need to chill with their emotions and reactions sometimes. Or...players just need to delete some of their social media to avoid these distractions. Probably needs a mixture of both.

The whole point of being a fan is to experience emotions. How do you think it is so easy to keep coming back for more?

Get em up in their feels and the game is over. Revenue stream for life

 

[JayhawkMike]

If JS doesn't re-sign him JS should be immediately fired.

 

[kidhawk]

If JS doesn't re-sign him JS should be immediately fired.

I agree with the caveat that he’s not offered crazy money he can’t turn down elsewhere. I don’t think he’ll get that type of market though. We should be able to sign him to a contract that is fair for both sides.

For anyone to call him a cancer though seems utterly ridiculous though. I loved what I’ve seen from him here both on and off the field.

 

[Seattle Person]

The whole point of being a fan is to experience emotions. How do you think it is so easy to keep coming back for more?

Get em up in their feels and the game is over. Revenue stream for life

But to call someone a cancer when you have nothing to back it up?? Come on dude.

 

[Rat]

I was under the impression that the reason he's been traded for peanuts twice in the past year is because of exorbitant demands on his next contract. Teams were understandably hesitant to trade significant capital for a guy with one year left on his current deal when they know that their best offer could very well not get an extension done. It's further complicated because you can't just franchise tag Jones. Since LBs are all lumped together under the tag, regardless of what LB position they play, tagging Jones means you're paying him $4 million more next season than the current highest-paid MLB actually gets. I'm sure he and his agent are aware of the leverage he has in Seattle. Those of you who think we're getting him back on a "reasonable" contract are delusional. If we get him back, it's because we offered more money than anyone else would.

I havn't heard anything negative about his character though. Regardless, I think going after fans on social media like this is a bad look. If there were rampant rumors circulating that he's a bad teammate, I'd understand the need to put out a general statement defending himself, but this was what, one fan maybe? This is kind of a Streisand Effect thing where the vast majority of us didn't even realize his character was remotely in question by anyone. I shudder to think of the kind of the thin-skinned reaction he might have when he inevitably has a few bad games at some point and the dogs REALLY come after him.

 

[kidhawk]

I was under the impression that the reason he's been traded for peanuts twice in the past year is because of exorbitant demands on his next contract. Teams were understandably hesitant to trade significant capital for a guy with one year left on his current deal when they know that their best offer could very well not get an extension done. It's further complicated because you can't just franchise tag Jones. Since LBs are all lumped together under the tag, regardless of what LB position they play, tagging Jones means you're paying him $4 million more next season than the current highest-paid MLB actually gets. I'm sure he and his agent are aware of the leverage he has in Seattle. Those of you who think we're getting him back on a "reasonable" contract are delusional. If we get him back, it's because we offered more money than anyone else would.

I’m curious how you’d define reasonable? If we match any fair market contract wouldn’t that be reasonable? I believe we let him dip a toe into free agency, even if that’s just the pre free agency time where players and agents can talk money without tampering. I think we match any fair market contract and he stays. I’m certain he’s asking for the
moon right now and he’ll have to come back to earth once he starts hearing offers.

 

[Rat]

I'd give him like $17m-$18m per year on a 3-4 year contract. If he holds firm on wanting more than that, I'd start questioning whether it's the best use of our limited funds.

 

[Shane Falco]

Going to interesting to see what the team does if we can't get him back.

 

[toffee]

We are not in those locker rooms, so we don't know, do we? But we can guess:

On one hand, when there's smoke, often there's fire.
On the other hand, the smoke could be just something from the "XXX" to drive down the value of a player.

We shall never know.

One thing that we do know: Schneider is willingly taking the risk of letting him hang, hoping that no team will step up to sign him, in return we can sign him at at our price.

 

[kidhawk]

I'd give him like $17m-$18m per year on a 3-4 year contract. If he holds firm on wanting more than that, I'd start questioning whether it's the best use of our limited funds.

Honestly that’s more than I think we can get him for. I’d have no problem going to those numbers though. It’s pretty clear what he does for our defense.