Yannick Ngakoue is getting restless. On Monday, the defensive end took to Twitter to express his frustration with the Jaguars and their reported lack of momentum on trade talks. 
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“Tired of the back and forth @Jaguars,” Ngakoue wrote. “Let’s get this s— done.”
The 25-year-old also tweeted at team co-owner Tony Khan, telling him to “stop hiding.”
“I’m not in hiding sir, I’m in isolation getting ready for the draft,” Khan replied. “I’ve been pretty active on social media in isolation, but you wouldn’t know that since you unfollowed me (again).”
After that, Ngakoue challenged Khan to “let the world in on the truth.” The truth, he says, is that the two men agreed that the December game against the Chargers would be Ngakoue’s last in a Jaguars uniform. After that, Ngakoue accused Khan of trying to “backdoor the situation” while avoiding calls from his camp.
Khan went on to say that tweeting insults at him wouldn’t get Ngakoue traded any faster, thereby implying that the team is indeed willing to deal its disgruntled star. And according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, that’s news to rival teams. Though other clubs have talked trade with the Jags, no offers have been made to date, perhaps because Jacksonville was making it clear that it was not really serious about moving Ngakoue. If that was the case, it now seems as if the Jags really are open for business.
If it wasn’t obvious before, the barbs make it crystal clear: Ngakoue absolutely wants out of Jacksonville and the relationship seems to be broken beyond repair.
The former third-round pick engaged in extension discussions last year, but a Jaguars short-term offer helped lead to Ngakoue skipping the team’s offseason program. Shortly before the Jags cuffed him with the franchise tag this offseason, Ngakoue announced he had no intentions of signing a long-term deal with the team. It’s been bumpy ever since.
Jacksonville has parted ways with most of the players that played key roles for its 2017 AFC championship game-qualifying team. The Jags traded Jalen Ramsey, A.J. Bouye and Calais Campbell since October. They released Malik Jackson last year and cut Marcell Dareus to save money in March. The team has shopped Leonard Fournette as well.
Just the drama we needed!
Already pretty tired of this guys act
Yep, Khan’s a hack.
good news for the rest of the league
All this petty beef does is lower the value the Jags will get for Yannick. Keep it up!
I wish one of these jaguars players would actually say what is actually going on instead of just threatening to say something.
By them not saying, you should know the answer…
Or it’s just a collective bluff
That’s an ignorant remark.
@dynomite drop
NFL teams need to stop tolerating this behavior. If you want to play than you play under your contract. If you don’t than you sit and play for no one and you don’t get paid.
Spoken like a true plantation owner.
Spoken like a true race baiting, oversensitive pansy.
Not race baiting at all. People like Carlos are just really, really confused, and it happens to be racism – whether it’s functional or personal. For fans, to ALWAYS lash out at the players, and not the owners is so myopic. Like, NFL owners take zero risk due to revenue splits and TV contracts (on top of having an audience with an emotional connection to their players). Since you seem to have right-wing talking points, I would think you believed in “free market” capitalism, ya? If so, then the players should be allowed to play wherever they want. And the reason he used “planation owner” as his verbiage is due to the fact we’re talking about an entire league where all owners are multi-billionaires, white and do no “hard” work as executives. Whereas, most of the players get paid way less than the owners and are mostly black. Now, if your cable bill is insanely high due to lobbyists (both NFL and Comcast/Verizon) jacking them up to then send to all NFL teams, would you seriously rather your money to go to a multi-billionaire owner behind the scenes… or the player who actually puts his body on the line week-in and week-out? The player who makes the NFL what it is. The player who allows one’s team to make a Super Bowl run, etc.
If you’d seriously prefer the former, then yes, that’s supporting a plantation mindset. But don’t come back with the, “Buuuut, they signed contracts! You should honor your word!” I’d agree if the NFL wasn’t such a greedy, insane league. If players were actually paid the exact wage commiserate to their production output, then signed a contract, with all money fully guaranteed, with the understanding that if he outperforms or wants to leave, the contract will be amended, then yes, that’d be a whole different conversation. Although, that’d never happen under a capitalistic society, because stealing from your workers and your clients (fans) is a staple of siphoning untold riches to the very top.
Look at my name: I’m from Philly. I actually like Jeffrey Lurie, personally. But as an owner, in a vacuum? He took a $250M loan in 1996 to purchase the Birds. That loan had almost or actually a 0% interest rate due to the fact it was his uncle’s money. Now, “only” 25 years later, Lurie has increased his net worth tenfold! That’s over $2 billion. How? By simply not selling the team. And. Lurie is one of the better owners! If you’d seriously want your money to go to (many) cretins instead of the players who make the NFL the NFL, then you’re really lost, my dude.
Which brings me full circle back to “dynamite’s” comment. The reason he called it the mindset of a plantation owner is because it is a mindset of a plantation owner. You want more fairness? Go for socialism.
But while we’re still under a neoliberal capitalistic society, at least let the players play where they want, especially if they’ve grossly outperformed their contract like Yannick has, then hold him in a very ridiculous limbo of the franchise tag, the players should be defended, rough guess, 90%+ of the time. If these teams and leagues were run like co-ops, we wouldn’t have (m)any of these problems, yet in this society, we have these problems weekly. Kinda shows you just how flawed the system and the plutocrats who own it are.
Sorry for letting the facts get in the way of a good story. Actually have a remote idea of what you’re talking next time you accuse someone of “race baiting.” Even if Yannick were white, it’d be plantation owner mindset. With Yannick being black, it makes it almost literal – extraordinary wealthy white owner controlling the life of a person who helped make him all those billions; oh by the way, they are still called “owners” for a reason.
P.S. When is the last time you saw a diehard fan, or even fair-weather one, wearing the jersey of their favorite owner instead of their favorite player? We come to watch the players. The owners take a laughably small amount of risk, players take a ton. Period. For whatever reason triggered you and your response, look at yourself to understand why it’s fundamentally flawed thinking – and a freshman college logic course would prove so in one session.
Really? A plantation owner? Might as well drop the race card in now, Right here, when it has NOTHING to do with race. That seems to be the place to do so. Joke. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with a spoiled player who is trying to play both sides of the fence to get the most amount of money he can. And the longer he speaks the more he loses. Leo on talking chief….
He didn’t say he wasn’t going to play. He just said that he won’t sign an extension and wants out. Might as well as pressure them if he’s got leverage
No, you and the NFL need to stop enabling it. The leauge restricts non QBs at getting paid so hard with franchise tags and non guarenteed money. The trade off should be when its time for a new deal, a player should get one. Instead the billionaires want to gut all the juice out of players and toss them aside when its time to pay.
so many cry babies and their drama. you signed a contract.
He was franchise tagged…and the owner allegedly agreed not to in December. Reading is FUNdamental.
But he actually didn’t sign a contract, he was tagged.
He didn’t sign a contract. He played for all of his rookie contract and its time for a team to pay up. These guys put their health on the line at an extreme level but sure get mad for them wanting their bag.
They’re playing a game and making millions while doing it. Let’s not pretend like their war heroes. “Puts their health on the line” anyone who’s ever put on the pads knows there’s a chance of injury. Yet, they continue to do it despite the risks. The same can be said every time you get behind the wheel of a car.
The owners cut players all the time to avoid paying them for the contract they signed. Works both ways, but for some reason you’re out here caping for the owners.
Glad to see so many people vocalizing this.
The players signed the contract with the language that says the contract isn’t fully guaranteed. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to sign it. If they do t love you to it or the team needs the money for another player, they get fired. It’s no different than any other job.
No clue what my phone autocorrected there in that next to last sentence but it was supposed to say “if they don’t like your play”…
It’s truly unbelievable how ridiculous and short-sighted (my polite way of saying what I want to say) your “analysis” is. Actually read my one of my two other comments (the one above in an earlier thread, or the one directly below this comment). If you can find flawed logic, let me know. I can guarantee you won’t. But actually read it to, at the very least, get a different perspective to get you to think. (That part was genuine, and non-malicious.) I’m not Noam Chomsky or some genius-level dissident. However, I know when I’m “right.” And this happens to be one of those occasions. “Dynamite” writes shorter repossess, as do most. With this topic, though, I thought it deserved a full analysis, so people like you can’t find holes in its logic. I know reading may be tough for you, but actually read it. If you just want to pout and say I’m wrong without providing significant evidence, that’s fine. I just want it to be read, so maybe you can start to understand people like “dynamite” and me are not “race baiters.”
Please don’t be the typical type that sees reading a couple paragraphs would take a whole minute or two, then accuse me of writing a novella, never reading the substance and going in circles, while still claiming you’re correct. I read your (flawed) logic. Time to reciprocate. After all, wouldn’t it be fun to “dunk on me”/”own me” by proving me wrong..? *Don’t be cowardly.*
It’s so sad how little thought people like you give, when tackling these problems. “Uh, he signed a contract. The old, white, billionaire class should win, always. Players should never receive a raise, despite already being paid WAAAAAY less than their actual value. Then, to boot, when they grossly outperform their contracts, they should still bow their heads to the owners, who do absolutely NOTHING, as players put their bodies (and lives/livelihoods at risk every week)!”
As I mentioned above, a freshmen in college taking his first logic class would be able to dismantle the fallacies you write. It’s also just plain wrong – morally. Lobbyists, both from the NFL, and all major cable companies who write legislation that’s passed always in both chambers, charge a (bleep)-ton of money just to watch local games – let alone all games. Therefore, it’s fundamentally unfair before the player is even drafted.
This would NEVER happen, because the oligarchs/plutocrats who run this country wouldn’t have it, but if you wanted a true representation of whom each player is actually worth, relative to their production value, you should be demanding a co-op setup by the NFL. That way, the players who have the most value and production get the most money, the players with the least, get the smallest piece of the pie, and then we’d really see how little the owners would make – as they clearly take nearly zero risks whatsoever. Not only is it a hobby for the plutocrats, but they make billions of dollars – all of them – by running their hobby. Hoarding money for a lifetime in “private business” isn’t enough for them, they have to screw eons of players out of their rightful salary/payment.
Now, on my last, mini-paragraph, let’s circle back to the point where I mentioned the system being “fundamentally unfair before they’re even drafted.” Yes, we live in a true plantation state with regards to the NCAA. These mega-athletes, who make billions for TV stations, are not given a single iota because of the archaic statute calling them “amateurs.” They’re not amateurs. It’s their full-time job, and most will never play in the NFL; even less will become stars like Yannick. Therefore, pay the players their rightful worth in college (no, a pittance of a scholarship when they generate untold millions for their colleges and untold billions for the NCAA is not even close to enough) and pass it on to the NFL. I would bet dollars-to-donuts these problems would all but disappear overnight. However, we all know the hoarders of money, err, I mean, the owners, would never allow that to get into a conversational piece, let alone put it into practice.
P.S. – As racist and slavery-esque the NFL is, the NCAA, where ALL NFL stars come, is as racist as it gets. And a literal slave system. Mostly white coaches, don’t really do that much, as the majority of the program’s success rides on getting a litany of 5- and 4-star prospects. There’s a reason none of them ever make it in the NFL. Nick Saban, who makes at least $8M per year, has the equivalent of like five first-round picks – 5 star prospects (two in the top five, one in the top ten, two in rest of the “round”), and unlimited second-round picks – 4 star prospects, so it’s not exactly genius when you have a QB (pre-injury) likely selected in the Top 3, a WR taken in the Top 10, another WR taken in the Top 15-20, a ’21 WR taken in the Top 15, endless TEs, endless, elite OL and endless elite RBs – and that’s just the offense, which Saban doesn’t even coach! On defense, he gets the exact same types of talent, to boot. Therefore, the players are doing and winning 99% of the work. Saban just pushes them over that 1% hump. And we all just casually accept he’s paid untold millions for a generation, for a very small part in making the program what it is (after all, he was, for all intents and purposes, a failure in the NFL). Buuuut, the players, of whom 90%+ never make it to the NFL get NOTHING for providing all that money to the NCAA, so when they graduate, they’re left with nothing but a fake college degree, as football is their full-time job.
For god sake, save us both the bland comeback of, “The money produced goes to scholarship recipients!” Give me a break. Firstly, that’s not remotely true. ESPN takes in most of the revenue, then the NCAA, and ALL ADs, coaches, etc. are millionaires – especially of mega programs. So, again, it’s okay for them to have a lavish lifestyle and endless money without putting their bodies on the line, but the players who all fans grow to love on their favorite teams, while putting their bodies/lives on the line week-in and week-out, get nothing..? That’s fair to you? If so, that’s basic immorality and apologetics for the worst chapter in American History.
Very lastly, you know who else signed contracts? MLB players in the early parts of the game. It wasn’t until the late ’60s or early ’70s until they were able to be unrestricted free agents. Stop trying to always blame the “victim”/player. Look at the structure, think for a second, then either abstain from writing a myopic comment – or better yet, think about it, on your own and come to the realization that despite Yannick being a bit of a prima donna, is correct and due the money he’s owed by grossly outperforming his first contract. Holding him captive via the franchise tag is just another form of domination, where all players and fans alike are just supposed to be subordinated and bow to power. C’mon, man. I really hope you can do better than the bland, “BUT HE SIGNED A CONTRACT!”
WOW … the tremendous disrespect for the Jaguars Owner and Front Office continues … when will it end Shad?
Odell for Ngakoue. Drama!!!!!
KHAN!!! Sounds like they both need to hit the beach.
Do the Jaguars have league approved towels?
“A potential Ngakoue deal seems to have more traction thus far.” Based on what? At the top of this article is a link to a story BY THE SAME AUTHOR entitled, “Jaguars haven’t received offers for Ngakoue.”
ZL again reports on his own speculation rather than established sources or evidence.