Clarification on Cromartie Contract Change
by John B on Mar 7, 2010 10:58 AM EST
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PrintHutch offers some clarity on the changes made to Antonio Cromartie's contract.
With seven children by six different women in five states and at least five paternity suits in the past two years, new Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie needs cash.
The Jets have stepped up, giving Cromartie $500,000 in up-front money on the final year of a contract that'll pay him $1.7 million in 2010, according to the NFL Network.
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Cromartie needs the ready cash because NFL players don't begin collecting their salaries until the first week of the season and it would take a while for Cromatie to come up with that kind of money.
Nice move by the Jets. It's the kind of thing that will build trust between team and player. Knowing the Jets have his back is the kind of thing that will motivate Antonio to put his best foot forward and return to his 2007 form.
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Great move by the team to already build a relationship with a player
who needs to have an impact next year. Good idea.
I think the “issues” with Cromartie are overblown. Aside from the paternity suits (which are really no one’s business but his own, I’d argue), I wouldn’t exactly call him a troublemaker, loud mouth, or jerk. I’m curious as to why it became a big deal the instant that he came to New York.
Well said,
you or I could have 12 kids with all different women, and nobody would care. Unless they are breaking the law and/or hurting other people, their business is their business. Football players have just as much of a right to be stupid as regular people. I don’t support having all those kids, but it’s not my business, so I don’t care.
"Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic."
- CRASH DAVIS
If I was relying on you to do a job for me and I was paying you, and because you had all those kids you had to keep missing work to go to paternity cases and or hearings, it was being a distraction and you kept messing up the work I was paying you to do, then it is not just your problem it’s mine as well. I agree they have been completely over blown, and it is his right to have as many kids as he likes, but when that interferes with him doing the job he is being paid to do, then it becomes the organizations problem.
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