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Like you said, just wait until the guys around you sign, look at what #32 got last year… Why give a percentage of that to an agent? |
Contracts are not diffficult to negotiate especially if it is slotted. Not a bad idea on his part. |
Just hire a lawyer for $250 an hour and he will take care of the first rookie contract. Hire an agent for the second contract. |
If the kid can negotiate his own contract, then good for him. I bet he could get away with taking care of business on his own now that there is a rookie wage scale. Now when he goes to renew his contract, he’ll probably have to find an agent, teams are way too sneaky with the small print. |
Daunte Culpepper did just fine, right? |
It is not a bad idea to be self-represented. An agent is only really useful for a rookie if they need help boosting their draft stock or to score endorsement deals. |
Based on the picture it looks like maybe the Ravens like safeties with big bushy beards. |
Actually it’s really not that hard at all… But the NFL wants us to think it is. |
Whoever said hire a $250 an hour laywer is right on. Especially for the rookie deal. no point in giving away a % of your deal for something that is close to set in stone anyway. |
Second deal is much more important anyway. |
“Self-representing” DBs like Ed Reed come around once every lifetime. I have the feeling that the Ravens are going to have a porous D this year, whether their players represent themselves or not. |
Same with athletes. Play the game, let the professionals handle the legalities and details. A player representing himself is invested emotionally and isn’t thinking clearly. Add to that the fact that it takes a real head for numbers and knowledge of salary cap issues to ensure you’re not getting hosed. Many players can... |
I would rather be represented by a NJ Toxic Waste Dump, than be represented by a lawyer. |
Lawyers represent themselves. If you don’t know that, then you haven’t worked enough with them. |
This is not crazy with the new rookie wage scales. He was the last pick in round 1. His salary is pretty well set within a few thousand. Even if he does get a little bit less than what an agent could have gotten, that will still be a saving s because the agent’s cut would have been more. |
If he tries to do a second contract without an agent, then that’s when he’s crazy. Then he’ll get robbed blind, but not on a first contract. |
Final score: REDSKINS 31, Ravens 28. |
No one cares about the Crows. They can’t even get a home game in their own city after winning the Super Bowl. Pathetic. |
For all of those who are ripping on Elam for representing himself, perhaps you can explain which agents have a strong value-adding proposition to justify that 10%? I don’t think most agents are earning their commission and I think Elam might have picked up on that and decided he wasn’t going to be a sucker just because... |
If I was Elam I might offer to agents to do my first contract for free as an incentive to consider hiring them on a paid basis in the future, but prove value to me as the client first and then I’ll pay you what you’re worth. Just because I play in the NFL doesn’t mean that I write big fat checks to guys that may very w... |
The real mine field is navigating through the nefarious bunch of agents out there. |
Lol… overpaid Superbowl MVP… Unibrow in 2014! |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the DEKA Arm System for amputees. Named in honor of Luke Skywalker, it's the first prosthetic arm that can carry out simultaneous multiple movements triggered by a person's electrical signals. |
The device was developed by New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and Development Corp, which was founded by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway and other devices. DARPA also had a hand in this, providing more than $40 million in funding as part of a larger $100 million project to improve prosthetics. The device has been in... |
"It was designed to produce near-natural upper extremity control to injured people who have suffered amputations," noted program manager Justin Sanchez in a Reuter's article. "This arm system has the same size, weight, shape and grip strength as an adult's arm would be able to produce." |
Movements are controlled by signals from electromyogram electrodes that detect electrical activity caused as a person contracts muscles. Wireless signals are generated by innovative sensors on the user's feet, among other input devices. Electrodes transmit signals to a computer processor embedded in the arm, which can ... |
"The DEKA Arm System may allow some people to perform more complex tasks than they can with current prostheses in a way that more closely resembles the natural motion of the arm," Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement. T... |
"This prosthetic limb system can pick up objects as delicate as a grape, as well be able to handle very rugged tools like a hand drill," Sanchez said. |
Until now, the best technology available to troops and other who lost an arm was a metal hook, Sanchez said. "The metal hook was the most commonly used prosthetic device for the last hundred years." |
DEKA said on its website that the arm is dubbed "Luke" after Luke Skywalker, the character whose hand is sliced off in a duel and is replaced with a robotic version in the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back." |
A ruling is expected in late June after French Polynesia's appeal court heard the case of five people convicted for the misspending of 1.4 million US dollars of funds at the state-owned OPT telecommunications company. |
A former government minister, Emile Vernaudon, has been serving a five-year prison sentence since January, but in the Court of Appeal, he has blamed staff for his predicament. |
Vernaudon also told the court that he acted in a way that was common at the time and it all happened with the approval of the French state. |
An investigation had found, among other things, that he claimed reimbursement for restaurant meals while he was in hospital, and that he billed the OPT for car fuel, pretending he had driven his vehicle 125,000 kilometres in one year. |
The prosecution has called for the sentences to be upheld. |
EAST MOLINE - The city is taking a vacant site and turning it into a $75 million project. |
The doubters are being proven wrong, "I'm really glad and vindicated when people said it's not going to happen and here we are today breaking ground," said Mayor John Thodos. |
An empty field is a new chapter for East Moline. |
"This is a project beyond anything we`ve seen for a very long time," said Darin Girdler, City Administrator. |
On Thursday, April 20th, a groundbreaking ceremony was held to may way for 'The Bend', a $75 million project that will become three apartment complexes and two Hyatt Hotels.They'll be the first hotels built-in East Moline. The 200 acres of land will also include new restaurants and retail. |
"Allowing people to take back the riverfront and enjoy it in a manner that hasn`t been done before," said Tim Knanishu, Executive Vice-President of EM Redeem. |
The empty land will go from the industrial blight of a shuttered Case-New Holland plant to a modern residential and commercial center sitting along the Mississippi River. |
"There was a factory here producing big red combines so its nice to see this ground is being reclaimed and put back to good use," said Mayor Thodos. |
Work should begin on the first apartment complex soon and developers hope to have the hotels up and running by June 2018. |
LAHORE - Expressing concerns over political parties awarding tickets to known corrupt turncoats, Jamat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq said promoting such people was hazardous to democracy. |
Addressing an Eid Milan party arranged for journalists at a local hotel on Thursday, he said that the parties were facilitating looters and plunderers in entering the parliament for another five years. |
MMA leaders including Jamiat Ahle Hadith’s Ibtesam Elabi Zaheer, JI spokesman and MMA candidate for NA-135 Ameer-ul-Azeem, JI information secretary Qaiser Sharif, deputy information secretary Shamsuddin Amjad and MMA deputy information secretary Zahid Akhundzada were also present. |
Sirajul Haq said that making articles 62 and 63 merely showpiece of the constitution was unfortunate. |
“Parliament is like goldmine for the corrupt elite. These people will only multiply wealth, factories and assets by looting hard earned public money”, he said, adding, corrupt politicians and bureaucrats were more dangerous than the enemies and terrorists hiding in caves. |
He said that it was job of the Supreme Court and NAB to bring such people to justice and recover looted money. He warned voters that professional politicians had no sympathy for people and no agenda for development. He asked the nation to vote for honest candidates and show those parties the doors which welcomed the co... |
Referring to chief justice of Pakistan’s remarks about the corrupt practices, he said that giving sermon on corruption is the job of TV anchors and Maulvis. |
“CJP comment was merely light music. Instead, the CJP is expected to take serious action to uproot the corruption and bring back the looted billions of rupees from foreign banks and off shore investments”, he said. |
Giving salient features of MMA manifesto, he said that interest free banking system would be introduced. He said that direct taxes will ease burden on the poor. Zakat and Ushr system will help boosting economy. He said that MMA will end VIP culture, introduce old age allowance for all above 70 years, unemployment allow... |
Google is to spend $1 million developing tools to increase Internet transparency, enabling users to detect if their broadband connection is being throttled, uncovering government censorship and other abuses. |
Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded the money to fund two years of development, with the option of an extra $500,000 available for a further year's work. |
In a press release, researchers at Georgia Tech said they hope to develop "a suite of Web-based, Internet-scale measurement tools that any user around the world could access for free. |
"With the help of these tools, users could determine whether their ISPs are providing the kind of service customers are paying for, and whether the data they send and receive over their network connections is being tampered with by governments and/or ISPs." |
Computer science professor Wenke Lee, the team's leader, says the work will create a "transparency ecosystem"- including tools for smartphones and tablet computers, to cater for the current boom in mobile internet access. |
Lee says that the new tools could also help the people of countries with oppressive regimes to spot if they are being denied access to information. |
"Say something happens again like what happened in Egypt recently, when the Internet was essentially shut down," says Lee. "If we have a community of Internet user-participants in that country, we will know instantly when a government or ISP starts to block traffic, tamper with search results, even alter web-based info... |
Last week, members of 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous claimed to have uncovered evidence of US government surveillance plans, alleging that the US government is developing software - code-named 'Metal Gear' by the group - that is deisgned to infiltrate Facebook and other social networks, posing as an army of fake pro... |
The AC/137(WF) chronological series contains the records of the Science Committee Ad Hoc Working Party on the Western Science Foundation. The Group was made up of representatives of five Alliance countries: France, Germany, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom. It was tasked with exploring possible ways of responding t... |
Germany's northern regions are currently experiencing bright and sunny days, while the south remains cloudy. |
Thursday night will feature scattered clouds across the country with temperatures between 0 and 6 degrees Celsius. Some hilly areas may even see the thermometer hit below zero. A chilly, but light wind, is expected to blow in from the north. |
Friday should be sunny and clear throughout Germany with temperatures ranging from 12 to 15 degrees. Some parts of the country may experience heavy fog. |
Weekend temperatures could dip below zero. There is a high chance of frost, so “garden plants should start their migration indoors this weekend” Johanna Anger of the DWD said in a statement. |
Saturday and Sunday should be bright and sunny with temperatures creeping up to 15 degrees. |
This weekend will not be the beginning of prolonged sunny weather though, as more clouds and rain will likely hit Germany next week. |
The paths of the Iowa and Stanford football teams will finally cross Friday when the Hawkeyes and Cardinal, whose programs date to 1889 and 1892, respectively, meet for the first time in the 102nd Rose Bowl game. |
Though there is no history between the teams, they did share a common rallying cry this past fall on the road to Pasadena: "Remember Northwestern!" |
Both the fifth-ranked Hawkeyes (12-1) and sixth-ranked Cardinal (11-2) traveled to Evanston, Ill., for what turned out to be watershed games in 2015 — though for different reasons. |
Stanford "laid an egg," in the words of Coach David Shaw, in a season-opening 16-6 loss to Northwestern, providing the wake-up call many players said was needed and the impetus for an eight-game win streak that vaulted the Cardinal into College Football Playoff contention. |
Iowa center Austin Blythe pointed to a 40-10 win over Northwestern on Oct. 17, a game in which third-string running back Akrum Wadley rushed for 204 yards, as the moment "it really clicked for us, and where we really understood what we could do as a team, especially with the injuries we were dealing with," he said. |
Iowa won its next five games, over Maryland, Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue and Nebraska, to complete its first undefeated regular season since 1922 and move to No. 4 in the nation before a gut-wrenching 16-13 loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten Conference championship game. |
"We just banded together as a team and got it done that day," Blythe said of the Northwestern game. |
Stanford had an altogether different experience. The Cardinal entered the season ranked 21st in the nation, and with a high-powered offense led by senior quarterback Kevin Hogan and explosive sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey, expectations were high. |
Whether it was the 11 a.m. Central time kickoff at Northwestern — 9 a.m. body time for Stanford players — or a bit of complacency, the Cardinal came out flat and played its worst game of the year. |
McCaffrey, who went on to set an NCAA single-season record with 3,496 all-purpose yards and finish second in Heisman Trophy voting, rushed for 66 yards. Hogan passed for 155 yards and had no completion for more than 16 yards. Stanford, with ultraconservative play-calling, converted three of 15 third downs. |
"We had one of the best off-seasons I've ever had at Stanford, and throughout fall camp we thought, 'Hey, we're a good team, we just need to go out and play the game the way we know how to play,'" senior linebacker Blake Martinez said. |
"Then, all of a sudden, we went boom, straight into a brick wall. When you do all that work and your first game hits you that hard, you have to take a step back and say, 'OK, we need to do something about it right now,' because we don't want this to be another 8-5 season like last year." |
The following Monday, the six Cardinal captains, including Hogan and Martinez, called the team to the Andrew Luck Auditorium for a players-only meeting. |
"Each captain got up and said, 'Hey, you need to work on this, we need to work on this, this is what we're not doing,'" Martinez said. "We said, 'We're the captains, but every single person on this team is a leader. If someone is not giving their best, go up to them and let them know. Or if I'm not giving my best, tell... |
With its focus on fundamentals sharpened, Stanford went on an eight-game winning steak in which the Cardinal averaged 41 points a game. |
The Rose Bowl game isn't until 2 p.m., but tailgaters started early. But it was the Iowa fans who got going really early. |
Included in the run was a 41-31 win over then-sixth-ranked USC and a 56-35 thrashing of 18th-ranked UCLA. A 38-36 loss to Oregon on Nov. 14 snapped the streak, but the Cardinal closed with wins over bowl-bound California, then-No. 4 Notre Dame and USC in the Pac-12 title game to earn its third Rose Bowl berth in four y... |
"That first game was a shock to the system," senior receiver Devon Cajuste said. "It humbled us immediately. It change the team's mentality because you know you don't have any more chances." |
Iowa's win at Northwestern wasn't so much a slap in the face as it was a shot in the arm. The Hawkeyes were 6-0 at the time, but they needed a 57-yard field goal by Marshall Koehn as time expired to beat Pittsburgh, 27-24, on Sept. 19, and they barely got by Wisconsin, 10-6, on Oct. 3, and Illinois, 29-20, on Oct. 10. |
Second-string running back LeShun Daniels did not suit up for the Northwestern game because of an injury, and starter Jordan Canzeri left late in the first quarter because of injury. |
But Wadley stepped in and rushed a career-high 26 times and scored four touchdowns — two of them in the third quarter, as Iowa extended a 16-10 halftime lead. The Hawkeyes scored 24 unanswered points and held Northwestern to 80 yards in the second half. |
"If there is one moment I could point to" where he started to see this team was capable of something special, "it's probably the game at Northwestern," Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz said. "We've had a lot of injuries this year — I thought we went into that game a little thin — and then Jordan Canzeri went down early. |
"That was not reassuring, but these guys responded, and they've been doing so all season. One guy may have to carry the load one day, and the next week it may be someone different. To me, that's the essence of teamwork. |
"The going gets a little tough, and they find a way to do something special." |
State budget cuts in a program that collects toxic chemicals, and fee increases for garbage collection, could mean a dirtier Wisconsin, according to one local waste management expert. |
As part of his budget proposal, Governor Jim Doyle has cut one million dollars in grants for the Clean Sweep program, which collects pesticides, drugs, paint, and other materials that should not go into landfills. Monroe County waste management administrator Gail Frie says the Clean Sweep cut essentially eliminates the... |
Frie says that means residents would have to cover Clean Sweeps costs, and he thinks they might not be willing. "My concern is in rural areas, when you're struggling to pay for your food, fuel and housing, garbage might be something that you don't have as a priority anymore, and they'll just burn it or t... |
Frie says disposal costs could jump by fifteen percent due to the fee increases, but he hopes they are scaled back in the final budget. Doyle has also proposed a $4.40 recycling and environmental fee increase per ton of regular waste. |
MONTREAL (AP) - Roger Federer overcame a weak first set to post a 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over David Ferrer in the third round Thursday at the Rogers Cup. |
In Friday's quarterfinals, the second-seeded Federer will face 12th-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain, who outlasted Frenchman Gael Monfils 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) on center court at Uniprix Stadium. |
Unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman beat American Jared Donaldson 0-6, 7-5, 7-5 to advance to a quarterfinal meeting with Robin Haase, the 52nd-ranked Dutchman who upset seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-1. |
Federer, who breezed past Canadian Peter Polansky in the second round on Wednesday, struggled in the opening set, spraying balls long, wide or into the net, but gradually rediscovered at least some of the form that has seen the 36-year-old Swiss player earn two Grand Slam titles this year. |
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