Eric Ebron reaching out to Tre Boston

[kungfoodude]

8 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

There are more hands in the pot for the NFL as well. NBA rosters are like 15 dudes, NFL is 70 with PS. College players get paid too at dook and Kentucky. 

Valid but the average player gets paid much more than the average NFL player.

The pay in college is all under the table, so not something you can coordinate with others. UNC, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, etc, etc....the illegal benefits doled out at the NCAA level have to be at least somewhat under the radar. You can't exactly have a group chat among a bunch of top 25 recruits about how to get the best deal at which college. 

[LinvilleGorge]

38 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

It'd work. At least until it comes time for that pesky thing called contract negotiations. These guys are going to want to get paid, and unless a whole bunch of them are willing to take a pay cut, this isn't going to work out.

This. If everyone is willing to be flexible with their contract financials then it could probably work - to a certain degree, depending on how many players were involved. But, the issue is that it has to be a team with positional need that is also willing to meet the contract demands of every player involved. At the end of the day, the odds of those factors all working out are slim to none and decrease exponentially with each new player added to the deal.

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

It's like a bunch of 15 year old girls promising each other they will all go to College of Charleston and pledge delta delta delta. But half don't even get in.

But hey, if they go to CofC they're probably hot. 

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. If everyone is willing to be flexible with their contract financials then it could probably work - to a certain degree, depending on how many players were involved. But, the issue is that it has to be a team with positional need that is also willing to meet the contract demands of every player involved. At the end of the day, the odds of those factors all working out are slim to none and decrease exponentially with each new player added to the deal.

Pulling this off at a scale of more than 2-3 players in the NFL would be extremely difficult. 

[Happy Panther]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

But hey, if they go to CofC they're probably hot. 

College of Knowledge baby...

[45catfan]

Hey Trey and Eric, this isn't the NBA!  There's more than 5 starters on a NFL team.  You can try to pull a Miami Heat, but pretty sure it will be a lost cause.

[Mr. Scot]

46 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This. If everyone is willing to be flexible with their contract financials then it could probably work - to a certain degree, depending on how many players were involved. But, the issue is that it has to be a team with positional need that is also willing to meet the contract demands of every player involved. At the end of the day, the odds of those factors all working out are slim to none and decrease exponentially with each new player added to the deal.

Even for that to work though, you'd need a team that has a need for all of them, wants all of them, is willing to pay all of them an amount they'd agree to and has the cap room to do so.

And then what happens when one of them gets a lesser offer than one of his cohorts when he thinks he deserves more? And then their agents get involved...

Plus if you're talking about all of them lowering their demands to go somewhere together, how's that gonna sit with the NFLPA?

Just too many moving parts for me to imagine this succeeding.

[sml1950]

These are the type of comments that keep players one year contracts.  You’d think that Tre would have learned to be seen and let his agent be heard.

[CarolinaNCSU]

If the Colts aren't interested in Ebron, with close to 100 million in cap space, only a year removed from scoring 13 TDs...yeesh. 

He's an average player who had one really good year.  He'll be a Patriot or something, and would rather let Ian and a draft pick take the reigns here. 

[Jared Patterson]

3 hours ago, Forty-Eight said:

McDaniels is bringing Devin McCourty here. Bye Tre. You’re a MonSrub

Him or Logan Ryan and whichever one invest a second round pick on the other position

[Forty-Eight]

4 minutes ago, Jared Patterson said:

Him or Logan Ryan and whichever one invest a second round pick on the other position

Getting both. They won’t cost an arm or a leg

[Jared Patterson]

12 minutes ago, Forty-Eight said:

Getting both. They won’t cost an arm or a leg

And be able to resign Bradberry, McCoy?

[4Corners]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

Valid but the average player gets paid much more than the average NFL player.

The pay in college is all under the table, so not something you can coordinate with others. UNC, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, etc, etc....the illegal benefits doled out at the NCAA level have to be at least somewhat under the radar. You can't exactly have a group chat among a bunch of top 25 recruits about how to get the best deal at which college. 

Don’t loop UNC in wth the likes of those cheaters you mentioned. UNC runs a clean basketball program in spite of the fake news that the Triangle newspapers created. 

[imminent rogaine]

1 hour ago, Rags said:

And yet both still constantly retian jobs in the NFL while you're just bitter.

Amazing really.

Lol. Are you Tre’s mom? No one is bitter. This is how sports fandom works: We judge players on a relative scale, relative to other NFL players, with the understanding that anyone on an NFL roster is very talented.