Will Mack stay or go?

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The Browns have the money to pay him and then some.

bbedward

Too tough to tell, 50/50 maybe

Mike H

One Post From the Truth said:
The Browns have the money to pay him and then some.

The issue is he has an Opt-out in his contract.

jrb12711

If he leaves it won't be because of salary concerns. There's no way he'll get a better deal than that in the FA market, but he was pretty damn apt on leaving before.

gumby73

Who says, you can't go home. when I first heard the opt out clause, can't change now, Cali. Winners Oakland or Rams but 9'ers (Kelly/O'Neil) & S.D with Rivers last hooray may get Mack Paid. Sashi holds the pen & cap space. don't blame me

Mike H

@gumby73 said:
Who says, you can't go home. when I first heard the opt out clause, can't change now, Cali. Winners Oakland or Rams but 9'ers (Kelly/O'Neil) & S.D with Rivers last hooray may get Mack Paid. Sashi holds the pen & cap space. don't blame me

Can someone translate this?

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@mike-h said:
Can someone translate this?

Excuse me may I inflect? Gumby and I speak jive.

He's says it's up to him to stay in Cleveland.

Says he could get more $ in SD maybe Oak,LA or even SF all teams in CA.

But it's up to Sashi, he writes the checks.

And don't blame him he'll whoop somebody's ass real good.

gumby73

@mike-h said:

Can someone translate this?

Honestly, get over yourself. This is like your 3rd translate this. Read my interest & to add I don't care what some of the English majors think. My life is good period. Go Browns!!

hoorta

@mike-h said:
The issue is he has an Opt-out in his contract.

Yeah- and he's in the top 5 in salary already, with the most guaranteed. http://overthecap.com/position/center/

If he takes off, he's not going to get a significantly better deal. It would be to play for a team with SB aspirations, and how many of those are going to be willing to pay a center $9 million + a year, & have the cap room to do so?

Tour2ma

Beware the ides of March! March 15, 2016 at 16:00 EST to be specific...

Smart to not burn any bridges, but I do not see him returning.

Osiris

@mike-h said:

It seemed like a certainty he would be gone about one month ago. Do these comments change your perception?

Also: Can't believe Mack is 30, because that means I'm 30.

The fact that he refers to the Browns as 'they' and not 'we' makes me think he has already made up his mind to leave. I hope I am wrong.

hoorta · Beware the ides of March! March 15, 2016 at 16:00 EST to be specific...

@tour2ma said:

Beware the ides of March! March 15, 2016 at 16:00 EST to be specific...

Smart to not burn any bridges, but I do not see him returning.

Not the end of the world should he opt out, and not get a better deal elsewhere.

But if it's a Phil Dawson scenario and I want to get out of Dodge for less money, yup- better hope Erving improves 100%.

DeputyDawg

I agree Osiris "they" is significant to me too.

gftChris

Sounds like he's just saying the correct thingm - telling everyone how much you hate your current employer doesn't put you in a great position to negotiate elsewhere.

7moses7

let him leave it isn't like this OL is that great . check the stats there's allways room for improvement

gftChris

@7moses7 said:
let him leave it isn't like this OL is that great . check the stats there's allways room for improvement

Yeah, our OL is so bad, we should let our multiple pro-bowl center leave. Makes complete sense.

Westside Steve

I couldn't help notice that he uses the words they and their in his statement as opposed to we and our.

WSS

EDIT: I see Osiris beat me to that observation.

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@westside-steve said:

I couldn't help notice that he uses the words they and their in his statement as opposed to we and our.

WSS

EDIT: I see Osiris beat me to that observation.

Very perceptive.

Seems Mack has the leverage here with the contract clause. It must be nice to be able to shop around and still have a job making 8 million dollars.

When Mack got his contract there were teams lined up to sign him. I'm with bbedward it's too early to tell.

jrb12711

@hoorta said:

Yeah- and he's in the top 5 in salary already, with the most guaranteed. http://overthecap.com/position/center/

If he takes off, he's not going to get a significantly better deal. It would be to play for a team with SB aspirations, and how many of those are going to be willing to pay a center $9 million + a year, & have the cap room to do so?

Right, exactly. If he's about the money (which I don't blame players for at all), he'll stay in Cleveland. If he really wants to chase a ring, a team like NE would make a lot of sense but he'd be taking a pay cut all but likely.

Westside Steve

From what I've heard the guy only thinks about football as the means to an end. As soon as the off season rolls around he is in South America doing whatever millionaires do in South America. He's never seems like the face of the team guy like Joe Thomas.

I've never perceived him to be hostile to Cleveland just not really committed.

WSS