Sgt. Largent
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mikeak":2fo76iq7 said:OK he is dumb because he will never make up that money. He supposedly sat out mainly to get more guaranteed, but in doing so he gave up almost $15 million guaranteed money.
So did he avoid the injury risk - sure. However, he will never get this earning back
I wonder the same thing I wondered when Earl got re-injured. Does he have a nagging injury that he think will become an issue and that is why he needs the long term contract so bad that he is willing to sit out? I still believe Earl knew he had never healed properly and that is why he got so pissed when he got re-injured because he "should have known".
Separately - other teams won't worry about his willingness to play, but they will worry that he sat for a year and they will also start wondering if he was a "system RB". When some unknown guy steps in and performs as good then was it the RB or the system? Like the old Denver RBs that never did anything elsewhere (not worth their money)
You bring up Earl, which is a good comparison for what Bell did.
To take Bell's side, Earl by playing this year cost himself a LOT of money.........assuming we would have eventually traded him to a team that would have given him an extension. That's 20-30M or more of guaranteed money by not playing and not getting injured.
Now Earl has to go the Richard Sherman route, shorter 2-3 year deal with incentives to get even half the money.
That's in essence what Bell is gambling on, that once he hits free agency perfectly healthy that a team is going to give him more guaranteed money, and therefore making up what he lost this year by not signing his tender.
So really no one can say he did the wrong or right thing until we see what happens next year. If no one gives him the contract he thinks he's worth? He did the wrong thing. If someone gives him a monster contract with most of it guaranteed? Then he was right not playing.