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Will Clausen be a holdout come training camp?


dham278

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IF he is stupid.

He couldn't do a dumber thing than to hold out. Right now he has the opportunity to come in and take the job (or at least prepare himself for his future opportunity). If he holds out, he will have no chance at being a starter for the forseable future.

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that will set the tone for his career imo....with his questions marks being what they are and his fall in the draft.....if he held out for money it would pretty much kill any shot the kid will at earning the respect of this lockerroom....which for him might be a tough task regardless.

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I'd say it's a given that his contract will take a while to get signed.

Fox and Company shouldn't have showed thier cards that they were trying to trade up and get him. Just take him at 48, say you're happy to have him, and them pay him the alotted money at that spot.

By saying they were trying to get to 32, that gives Clausen and his agent ammo to demand more money.

He can sit out all he wants though, only hurts his chances of beating out Matt

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