tommrr wrote:
C) The team is still satisfied with your play, but feel you are not worth the terms you are asking for or just can't afford them.
I would say C is essentially the same as my choice A-the team likes you, but figures they will be outbid for you by another team, so why bother submitting a contract?
tommrr wrote: D) The team has decided on a new direction, and while still very capable, not a fit in the new plans.
Okay, that happens, you played okay but the team stinks as a whole and they are starting over with a new quarterback, new running back, new linebackers, etc. Again it's pretty much a variation of A: you're a good player, but you are more valuable to someone else than us. I mean, if the veteran player is willing to sit on the bench and take the minimum or near it, presumably the team will keep him. But they know someone else will want him and pay him more.
tommrr wrote: Anyway, following with what you are saying, that essentially when someone is cut, or released, then they are fired. Would you agree then, that the 49ers fired Jerry Rice, or mutally parted ways because of one of the above ideas.
Once you get past the tear-filled tributes, Jerry Rice was essentially cut from the team. Of course, they can't put it like that, but that is what it amounts to.
I suppose there are some industries where the contract is extended to an employee, and at the end of the contract the employee understands that the company will assess it's needs and let him know if they are interested in his services. With sports and TV, however, the expectation is that if you are doing well, they extend a new contract. If you feel it differs from firing in significant ways-and at this income rate unemployment insurance is really not a consideration, lol-then well and good.
My objection to Timber's theory is that he was trying to make the fact that Miller left early into some kind of idea that Miller was actively trying to escape CNBC, when in fact he really wasn't. Miller wanted them. They didn't want Miller. The details of the leaving, from the audience perspective, are fairly immaterial, I think.
