Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Garcia has a year left on his contract, which will pay him $2 million this season, less than most starting quarterbacks make. So the St. Petersburg Times asked him: Is he disappointed in that contract?Garcia doesn't seem to understand that the fact that he's no longer 24 or 25 is exactly the point: Teams don't give contracts to players as rewards for past performance, they give them to players as attempts to purchase future performance. At age 38, there's no reason at all for the Buccaneers to pay much money for Garcia's future performance."You could say that," Garcia said. "Talks haven't necessarily gone all that good.
"So in a way, it's disappointing. At this point in my career, I'm no longer 24 or 25 saying, 'I'm going to prove to you I deserve this.' I feel like I've proved throughout my career. And I feel like at this time, it's time to just work with me, and you know what I bring to the team. You know what I've done for the team, and you know how much more I can do. And now I have a year under my system."
And, of course, Garcia always has the option of playing out the contract and becoming a free agent next year. If he plays as well in 2008 as he did in 2007, he'll be rewarded in 2009.
Via PFT.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:01AM
nickstoli said...
Oh, for fark's sake! This guy's MAYBE the 15th best QB in the league. Take the 2 mil and keep yer trap shut.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:22AM
scott said...
I like Garcia and was happy when we got him,but I really hope he not another show me the money type.
at his age and considering we lost him last year for a few games he should be thankful he is getting 2mil
a year.He has been a class act through out I really hope he stays that way,Jeff stay healthy and get us back to the superbowl and they will more than likley
pay you what you want.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:30AM
wcerhart said...
All of the sports players make me sick, They " NEVER" Go to the owner and say I think I should have a PAY CUT this year cause I stank it up last season, Hey you have a contract, play or go the hell home, come on owners be men about this crap. it don `t say in the contract if you have a good year you will get a new contract, it says you will be paid X amount for X amount of years, owners live up to there end by paying , You live up to your end by playing, You All Make Me Sick, and Garica is not worth the 2 Mil he is gonna get.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:40AM
Kris said...
I think Garcia definitely deserves to get a contract extension, nothing like what Garrard got from Jacksonville. If you look at everything that he did in Philadelphia last season and now in Tampa Bay, he is not the youngest and best quarterback out there (that is a given), but he provides leadership and stability to the franchise that two years ago seemed to go through a new quarterback every few weeks. Sure he had a couple of bad seasons in Detroit and Cleveland, but he was put into systems that he was unable to thrive in, unlike now where he spent most of his career in this system.
Depending how long he would get a contract extension he would finish his career in Tampa Bay, which would be good for him because then the team can draft a quarterback of the future within the next couple of years and have him learn from Garcia before taking over.
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4-09-2008 @ 3:57PM
Me said...
Nothing but amateur passing here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHOIS4eiWJE
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