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- Updated: August 29, 2016
The San Diego Chargers could have stood firm on principle. They could have remained stubborn in their contract dispute with rookie No. 3 overall pick Joey Bosa, knowing full well that Bosa would eventually have to cave and report to the team or risk losing a year’s salary as well as his entire rookie contract.
See, as had been widely reported, and even publicized by the two parties in dispute, Bosa either wanted his entire signing bonus up front or a contract that omitted offset language. The problem was the Chargers had never made either concession with a rookie and didn’t plan on doing so now.
The result? The potential future of the franchise missed the entirety of his first training camp and at least three key preseason games, all because San Diego refused to concede something every other team with a top-three pick has conceded since the new collective bargaining agreement was adopted in 2011.
But the Chargers hadn’t had a top-three pick in that time frame. In fact, until this year, they hadn’t picked in the top 10 since 2004. The principles they were standing on had become outdated; their policies regarding rookie contracts were practically archaic.
A No. 3 overall pick should be viewed as an exceptional case anyway, which is why those old-fashioned unwritten organizational rules should have been thrown out the window the moment Bosa was drafted.
But they weren’t, and the Chargers dug in. What’s scary is they could have kept digging, forcing Bosa to decide whether to take a deal that didn’t adhere to recent precedent or abandon his rookie season and re-enter the draft in 2017.
The Bolts, though, …
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