BoltBacker
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Even then, that's exactly what KC did to Flowers last season and Dyvon Branch signed a sweetheart team friendly one year deal with the team. I think every team in the NFL has had contract disputes and nobody really cares afterward, all they care about is their deal with the team. This "bad reputation" theory doesn't play out in real life imo.The only way this situation hurts them with free agents if he they do what some have suggested and cut him right before the season to be vindictive.By "treated you" you're referring to forcing him to accept $13M (tops for his position) under the contract he signed and has 3 years remaining, and not trading away a generational talent for a bag of potato chips?FUBAR said:It also shows potential free agents or their own players that the team won't work with you if you're unhappy with how they treated you.
If that's more important than the pick or players they could get in a trade, have at it.
Or closer to home remember when Gates missing a game for showing up late on a flight to sign a contract based on bad advice by his agent? It was going to poison the relationship between the Chargers and Gates and he would NEVER sign a long term extension after that! Nobody remember or cares. Sometimes not even the player that was "wronged" themselves.