Tom Condon
Tom Condon
Thomas Joseph Condon, and raised in Ansonia, CT, is an American football agent. He was named the most powerful agent in American football by Sporting News in 2006 and heads the Football Division of Creative Artists Agencywith fellow agent Ben Dogra...
kids trying
We're going to be like kids trying out a new toy.
gets says wait
There's nothing yet. We'll just have to wait and see what Dr. Andrews says after he gets a look at it.
contact offer sheet since
There's not been any contact with them at all since the offer sheet was signed.
looking resolution
I think he was disappointed he wasn't able to get resolution before he got to this point. On the other hand, I think he was looking for some finality.
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We came within an eyelash of losing the whole crop last spring but we are sitting better right now,
teams
Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.
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I expect to continue with a couple more teams after that.
prohibited rule
I don't think it's a loophole as much as a utilization of the rules. The rule is that anything not prohibited is allowed.
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Based on what he's accomplished and on his statistics, if you compare what he's done to what some of the other top quarterbacks have done, he certainly doesn't come anywhere near them in terms of compensation.
player position sets tag transcends transition
I don't know that this sets a precedent. Sometimes, a player transcends the position of a transition tag by being an exceptional player.
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Last year we had (University of Utah quarterback) Alex Smith at the first pick (by San Francisco). It was a $24 million guarantee and he was averaging $8.5 million a year.
agency cap clubs free lets meaningful million teams
Only about one-third of the clubs could have participated in a meaningful way in free agency but now you now have a cap of around $102 million that lets about three-quarters of the teams be part of the process.
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New Orleans was very comfortable with the risk-reward, based on his rehabilitation from the injury. Miami didn't have that same level of comfort, so New Orleans made a lot of sense for us.
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The number in the first four years has basically been the same since 1998. Four years, $24, $25 million. So I assume they'd be very happy to keep that number there. The fifth and sixth years of a contract at that level are what would normally correspond to with a guy's free-agency contract. So that's why I don't think it's very unreasonable for the numbers to jump up then.