Bosa Deal Done

[bonehead]

Good news .....too bad he won't be able to play 16 games

[CTrout]

Finally

[6025]

Terms?

[6025]

Good news .....too bad he won't be able to play 16 games

Special teams until he cracks the starting lineup.

[Millionaire Wussy]

http://www.chargers.com/news/2016/08/29/joey-bosa-signs-four-year-contract-chargers?sf34604204=1

[Millionaire Wussy]

He needs to play in KC. Fuck preparation time. We need him if he's even at only 60%. Has to be better than what we have there now.

[Guest]

Special teams until he cracks the starting lineup.

I would make him the water boy for 4 years.

[Mister Hoarse]

Oh piss boy...

[Millionaire Wussy]

Oh piss boy...

De Mooonet! De Moooonet!!

[OhioBolt]

Yeah the Saga is over!!!!!!

Long time ago in a far distant galaxy

Darth Bosa and Agent Hardball refused to sign

The Rebellion Spanos said screw you too

Negotiations went on, I mean went nowhere

Darth Bosa then caved in said I'll sign this one

THE END


2020 Coming The Revenge of Darth Bosa

After scumming to the contract of the Rebellion Leader Spanos

Darth Bosa goes for Revenge and combines forces with Mama Bosa & Agent Screw-U-Chargers

The Saga coming sometime in 2020

[Maverick]

Way to break it first, Fleet!

[sandiego17]

Insider Article:

Why Joey Bosa's holdout won't affect his play

Though he finally signed on Monday, Joey Bosa's holdout shouldn't wind up costing the San Diego Chargers more than bad publicity and money. Yes, by missing the reps that a young player needs in camp, Bosa has set himself up with a steeper learning curve than most rookies. But it turns out that talents of his caliber often get to play right away anyway.

Conventional wisdom says that rookies who holdout miss precious developmental time and wind up being marginalized by coaches who they haven't been around during the offseason. But from what we've seen in NFL history, that's just not true.


While the new collective bargaining agreement makes rookie holdouts far less frequent, we do have plenty of examples of past highly drafted rookies skipping training camp while looking for more money. In the past, the NFL's top-10 draft picks used their leverage to force bad teams to pay them like the best players at their positions. Sometimes you'd draft Peyton Manning and it'd work out; other times, you'd wind up paying Akili Smith tens of millions of dollars. And, as agents caucused to try to make their top-10 deals look more appealing, the holdout numbers only grew.

Here's a list of every holdout longer than 20 days since 1997 by a defender who was a top-10 pick. This uses Pro-Football References Approximate Value (AV) metric, which measures team contributions via playing time and conventional stats.

PLAYER YEAR POSITION TEAM PICK DAYS HELD OUT ROOKIE AV FIRST 5 YRS AV
Peter Boulware 1997 LB BAL 4 35 7 48
Bryant Westbrook 1997 CB DET 5 21 7 26
Shawn Springs 1997 CB SEA 3 21 4 36
Andre Wadsworth 1998 DL ARI 3 44 7 13
Justin Smith 2001 DL CIN 4 50 7 35
Quentin Jammer 2002 CB SD 5 49 2 27
Ryan Sims 2002 DL KC 6 Entire Camp 1 18
Adam Jones 2005 CB TEN 6 20 6 20
Derrick Harvey 2008 DL JAX 8 33 4 15
You can see that most teams on this list received an instant boost from their top defensive picks regardless of the training camp days missed. Some of the players with lower first-year contributions even have injury excuses: Wadsworth had a calf injury to deal with, and Springs broke his right thumb and missed six games. This helped hold their AV down despite them essentially being plug-and-play.

Ryan Sims and Quentin Jammer stand out as players who would validate some of those conventional wisdoms about rookie holdouts. Jammer started only four games; Sims played in only six. Still, Sims was an overall washout -- not just a training-camp washout -- and Jammer provided good returns starting in his second season.

Players in this group also tended to fare pretty well over their first four seasons, minus a few notable exceptions. Jacksonville Jaguars lineman Derrick Harvey was an overdraft to begin with, and didn't have a job after his first four years in the league. Wadsworth's career was decimated by injuries. Adam Jones would have contributed much more to the Tennessee Titans had he not been suspended for the entire 2007 season, although he has finally lived up to his potential with the Cincinnati Bengals in recent seasons.


It wasn't all smiles for Joey Bosa after getting drafted by the Chargers. Kamil Krzaczynski/USA TODAY Sports
Bosa's best doppelganger in the group above is Boulware, a pass-rushing outside linebacker who also played for a big school and had less-than-ideal size for a defensive end. Like Bosa, Boulware had astonishing productivity. Boulware piled up 19 sacks in his final season at Florida State. We don't have combine stats before 2000, but it's likely that Boulware was empirically faster than Bosa given Bosa's subpar showing in the 40-yard dash.

Anecdotally, Bosa's holdout shouldn't hurt him as much, because he's not a raw player. He's a football guy from a football family (his dad was also a first-round pick). He's definitely going to be smart enough to play in the league and develop the right sort of techniques to win at the point of attack. He comes into the league fairly polished. Most of Bosa's flaws are found in his athletic ability -- as our SackSEER projection system for pass-rushers pointed out, he's just not very explosive.

And the past has also taught us that most of the time, if a team is willing to invest in a player, they're willing to play him early despite his lack of training camp. What the Chargers did here was extremely petty, and rightfully led anonymous sources to wonder if they've forever poisoned the well with Bosa. They are your cheap uncle who "left his cash in his other wallet" when it's time to chip in for the community tip.

But that shouldn't keep Bosa from playing up to his talent this season.