Maybe but I have been around too long to be as certain as you. One example ... Mike (let's hang the dog) Vick.
Maybe but I said signing Signing Bonus ... not salary.
The Union fighting it does not mean they win it; and the fight itself could cause Campbell some anxiety.
Completely Agree
In your initial post, where you wrote 'Campbell is still there', ... He's Not.
Not in the building. Not in the locker-room. Not on the practice field. Certainly not on the sidelines.
Michael Vick didn't do the one thing you can't do. What he did was reprehensible, but even that, even killing someone like Ray Lewis may/may not have done wouldn't be the one thing. No, the one thing you
can't do is quit on your team - your brothers - in the middle of a game. Nobody has ever come back from that. Not Antonio Brown, not anyone I've seen, and certainly not someone like Campbell.
And that's fair. Campbell's influence is still in that locker room. I feel that if they cut him immediately before the game ended, they've washed their hands free of him. He's done. Over with. But now they're going after his signing bonus, and the player's union will be breathing down their necks because of it. I think it's a stupid ploy. It's not like they've signed him to multiple years; it's just this year, and their playoff hopes are deader than a snowball in hell.
What possible argument can the union make to defend a player who quit on his team mid game? Also that's irrelevant to what you said.
Who cares about easier that's weak to do that. This sends a clear message, it backs up what all his teammates said about him. And most importantly of all it earns him a ton of support by the locker room not losing it.
They fought the Buccaneers on Antonio Brown. They'll use the same arguments there, except on a non-playoff team.
Irrelevant how? His influence is still in the locker room, and the player's union will fight management, giving the team an extra headache to deal with. It's not weak to cut out the cancer as soon as it appears rather than fight tooth and nail to find a way to extract it in an unconventional way. But that ship's long sailed; were I 69ers management (and thank holy fate I'm not), he'd be done before the game ended, and I'd have said as much.
And like I said, who gives a shit about his salary aside from 49ers management? Players get paid their signing bonus no matter what. They go after Campbell's signing bonus, that opens the floodgates to anyone for anything.
Again, I don't give a shit what happens to the 69ers except for it hopefully being the absolute worst, and I hope it opens that can of worms for them.
