The Texans and holdout Duane Brown have not engaged in any discussions about a new contract since the left tackle has been away from the team, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reports. Brown has been pushing for a raise dating back to the spring, and his dissatisfaction with his current compensation caused him to miss voluntary workouts in May, mandatory minicamp in June, all of training camp and the preseason, and the Texans’ Week 1 loss to the Jaguars.
Brown’s absence from training camp subjected him to a $40K-per-day fine, and it led the Texans to place him on the reserve/did not report list, thereby reducing his 2017 salary from $9.65MM to $9.4MM. He also lost his $411K game check Sunday, which will be the case for as long as he doesn’t show up. Brown will need to report by Week 8 in order to get credit for an accrued season, Florio notes. The 32-year-old indicated last week that he does plan to play in 2017.
While holding out has backfired on Brown to this point, it’s clear the Texans need the three-time Pro Bowler. Their offense was in disastrous form on Sunday against Jacksonville, which dubbed itself #Sacksonville on Twitter after taking down Texans quarterbacks Tom Savage and Deshaun Watson 10 times in a 29-7 rout. Unsurprisingly, Pro Football Focus assigned horrid grades to Texans tackles Kendall Lamm and Breno Giacomini for their roles in the loss. The outlet has typically given favorable reviews to Brown, a nine-year veteran who has started in all 132 career appearances.
Brown’s under Texans control through next season at a combined $19.15MM, though it’s clear that figure doesn’t suffice for the longtime franchise linchpin.
Football players don’t get paid anywhere near what baseball and basketball players make, and the NFL IS THE RICHEST LEAGUE! I know the roster are a lot bigger, but it still doesn’t seem right. Goodwill should fix this like he “fixes” everything else.
The salary cap is the main reason players don’t get big contracts. MLB teams don’t have an official salary cap (as teams tend to place an unofficial cap on themselves) and NBA teams have a much higher cap relative to the amount of players they’d have on their roster (roughly 15 players for a $100 million cap compared to what 25-40 players in the MLB and a roughly $100-$150 million unofficial salary cap for teams and 53+ players for like $170 million in the NFL). Another big factor was the TV deal the NBA signed. I don’t know what the NFL’s TV deal looks like but the NBA also chose a sharp increase in cap as opposed to a gradual increase and they will start feeling the affects this year as the cap is projected to not significantly change (increase/decrease of roughly $1m every year) as opposed to the NFL which will likely see gradual increases in their salary cap every year.
yea..I understand..the Texans o line was awesome Sunday…BULLSHIT…Unbelievable the guys Rick Smith has put out there for this team..