Do Teams Stray Away from Players with Bad Agents?

[Snk16]

I was thinking this because most teams and people hate Drew Rosenhaus.

He always makes his players think that they're better than they are, and get them to hold out, etc.

So, do teams not want to draft or get a free agent becuase an agent who is good at his job but bad "ethically"?

I thought it would be an interesting discussion.

[ballen]

I hear that Rosenhaus is all talk. A lot of teams actually like dealing with him. Look at what the Bears just did. They are in a contract dispute with Lance Briggs and Rosenhaus and they still took Greg Olson, another Rosenhaus client.

[jlarsiii]

Granted, certain agents really seem to be able to "influence" their players to do things that are counterintuitive or counterproductive, but I don't think that as a football club you would walk away from a talented player if his only drawback is his agent.

If the player has character issues etc. then you might go a different direction, but if the only thing you don't like about a guy is his agent then that is easily remedied. I think that you have to think in terms of which player is going to significantly improve your club, and then do what you can to acquire that person.

After all, you never know what is going to happen in the future. Will the player even keep the same agent throughout his career? You just never know so I say stick to the talent that is showcased on the field and worry about these minor distractions at some other point in time (like during contract negotiations).

[Milehigh117]

I think the only agents teams try to shy away from are the Postons, you know, the guys who got Ian Gold such a "great deal" in Tampa, which turned our to just be a one yr crap contract.

They're also the guys who announced within hours of their client Kellen Winslow being picked that he'd be a training camp holdout.


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