Austin easily, Jackson is 28 and has never caught 70 balls in a season. This guy has supposed to be top ten for four years now.
Lol?Miles is 27 (not that age is relevant at all not even in dynasty between these two specific players), in his 5 years in the NFL hes only caught more than 70 balls once.
They ran an identical 40 yd dash, but Vjax is 6'5" and Miles is only 6'2".
Right, but Miles is an undrafted stud who worked hard to get where he's at. He has tremendous lower body strength with tree-trunky type legs which allows him to break tackles etc... I'll take the came-from-nowhere workhorse who has had multiple double-digit catch games over the 2nd round prima donna who underachieved until his breakout in 2009.I do think both are top 10, however. In fact my rankings have Austin at 6 and Vjax at 7.
Vincent Jackson ranked 12th in 2008 (his 4th season in the league). 12th is now underachieving? 4-year breakouts are now somehow uncommon for WRs?
He was still a 2nd round draft pick - far cry from being undrafted. And he's a prima donna because he held out all last season. He's had DUIs (I believe he's had 2). He's a good player and like I said I have him 7th overall for WRs - but I still think he's an entitled doosh.
Fact: Vincent Jackson has never once in his entire career held out. That is a straight up, plain and simple, inarguable
FACT. Vincent Jackson signed a 5-year, $3.495mil contract as a rookie. He then played in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Count them- that's five years. He played out his entire rookie contract without holding out or threatening to hold out. Then he no longer had a contract- his contract was over, done, finished. Unfortunately, an obscure provision of the former CBA (which
was not in place when he signed his original rookie contract) prevented him from negotiating with any other teams. As a result, since he was not under contract for anyone, Vincent Jackson did not play in the first 10 or so games of 2010. Eventually, he signed a contract so he could accrue another year of service, and then he honored the terms of that contract that he signed- just like he honored the terms of the contract he had signed before.
Vincent Jackson was screwed. He entered the league and signed a 5-year contract when the rules were you could become a free agent after 4 years. Then the NFL changed the rules so you had to have 6 years to become a free agent. Vincent played out the terms of his contract, anyway. He then refused to sign a new contract with San Diego because the sum of money they offered him was far too low to risk a career-ending injury (and therefore risk his huge free agent payday). That was his right- nobody has to sign any contract that they don't like, they simply have to honor the terms of the contracts that they do sign. Which Vincent Jackson did. Twice. And will do a third time this season.
Hardly sounds like the actions of an "entitled doosh", if you ask me. In fact, you could say the "entitled doosh" in this entire drama is the guy who refused to pay him market value and refused to trade his rights to someone who would.
