Derrick Harvey Signing Watch: Day Six

Derrick Harvey signs…or the stadium gets a title sponsor?

While the Jags are a great organization I guess you just can’t win them all. Unfortunately, both issues are income related, and blackouts and empty seats sure don’t help get these kinda things done. I would say, if the Jaguars had sold out their season tickets a month ago, Harvey would be signed already and we might be looking at a title sponsor for the stadium. It’s give and take. The fans in Jacksonville need to give a little more so they can ensure generations of take. By lack of ticket buying, we sometimes force the organization to tiptoe on financial eggshells. And in the wildly popular NFL, that’s startling and embarrassing.

Ticket sales and stadium sponsorship are major sources of income for an NFL franchise. Player salaries are the biggest expense. Naturally the two are very dependent upon each other.

So, this guy’s a holdout. Obviously he’s asking for more money than the Jaguars want to pay him. The Jaguars don’t want to overpay him because their finances border on break even every year, so a few million extra here or there can be the difference between profit and loss. Lack of assured revenue (such as sold out games and title sponsorship) therefore will affect the flexibility in the team’s ability to negotiate player contracts (the biggest expense.) Hence, we arrive at our current struggle to get Harvey into camp. Let’s all just feel lucky and appreciative that Jones-Drew didn’t decide to hold out for a restructured contract at the same time.

The Jaguars have usually had there draft class signed by opening of trainning campwith 1 exception Bryon Leftwich, Harvey’s only hurting himself and may lose playing time depending on when he signs

I know these guys like to play football, but it’s still about the money. I think he may be a little more concerned with the millions and a little less concerned with playing time. It’s just the way that it is when players are paid to play.

The reason he hasn’t signed is that the same agent represents Ellis, Harvey and Rivers. The dumbass agent is the hold-up, not Derrick.

He may be too young to know it but he can call it when he wants to. David did on his contract.

I honestly couldn’t care a less if Harvey is signed tonight, tomorrow, next week, etc. What I DO care about are the players that are in camp. There is nothing that can be done by the players or coaches who show up every day and bust their butts practicing and learning the system. Sure, I would like for Harvey to be there and show us why we’re probably going to give him a ton of money, but how is it going to change training camp if he’s not there right now? No one knows who is to blame. It could be the agent. It could be Harvey. Does someone have private insight to the negotiations? It’s a shame that it has become more and more about the money.

I agree with jagsrock. Groves may still end up being the better of the two, and he’s AT camp working with the team. I was a big Harvey fan when he was a Gator, and I have defended him on here in my previous comments, but I’m starting to feel like Tkopa lately. This is B.S. He need to have a reality check. JDR said the offers are “rediculous.” What’s the point of making stupid offers if you KNOW the team wont pay. All it does is hurt the player by limiting his practice and hurt the team by not having there 1st rounder there that they already sacrificed to get. Like Tkopa said, Harvey, DOES have the final say as Garrard did, he needs to tell his agent to sign him up for a lucrative, but resonable contract and start playing some damn football!!!

The Jags have never had a problem signing players, that says something about Harvey’s situation, maybe the agent is to blame?
I wonder what the agent is telling Harvey to make him not sign the contract.