Wikinson's Ex-Agent Vents

hail2skins · #1 08-20-2003, 11:33 AM

This from the Wash Post

Wilkinson's Ex-Agent Vents

George Mavrikes, the Bethesda-based agent fired by Dan Wilkinson just before the veteran defensive tackle was released by the Redskins last month, said he advised Wilkinson to accept the club's offer for a revised contract. Spurrier, Redskins owner Daniel Snyder and Vinny Cerrato, the team's vice president of football operations, decided to release Wilkinson after he refused to reduce his salary for this season from $3.5 million to $2 million.

"I don't know what he was thinking," Mavrikes said. "He should have taken the deal. He would have been far better off, and the team would have been far better off."

Mavrikes said the Redskins offered to guarantee $1 million of Wilkinson's $2 million salary and offered a package of incentives in which Wilkinson would have earned back all of his $1.5 million in lost income by participating in as little as 51 percent of the club's defensive plays. Mavrikes said that, after being given permission by the Redskins to talk to other teams about prospective contracts, he told Wilkinson that the tackle wouldn't get a better deal with another club. Wilkinson fired Mavrikes a few days before being released and hired Brig Owens.

Wilkinson signed a four-year, $8.455 million contract with the Detroit Lions last weekend. He will earn $2.155 million this year, including a $1.5 million signing bonus and a $655,000 salary. But he must be on the team to earn his future salaries -- $1.8 million in 2004, $2.1 million in 2005 and $2.4 million in 2006 -- and he must refund one-fourth of his signing bonus for each season he misses if he retires.

rskinsfan10 · #2 08-20-2003, 06:03 PM

Which is probably why Wilkinson fired him. He didn't like the deal, but his agent was in his ear telling him to take it, and he more then likely felt that he wasn't working in his best interest, when in fact he was.

dj_stouty · #3 08-21-2003, 06:13 AM

His agent sounds like a Skins fan!

Seebs · #4 08-21-2003, 06:30 AM

His agent knew where the guarantedd money was!

IowaSkinsFan · #5 08-21-2003, 08:57 AM

The Detroit contract looks like a lot of window dressing and protection for the Lions in case he (BDW) calls it a career.

Seebs · #6 08-21-2003, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by robert11273
The Detroit contract looks like a lot of window dressing and protection for the Lions in case he (BDW) calls it a career.

Amen!

I totally agree.

Skinzaholic · #7 08-21-2003, 01:42 PM

Big Daddy didnt like the new contract restructuring from the Skins simply due to pride. He has always had a poor work ethic and this offer would call that into question and demand he change it to make his money... he didnt like that...

He is a joke IMO.

TexSkin · #8 08-21-2003, 03:08 PM

So long to overpaid trash is my opninion. Even if he would have stayed I doubt we would look much better in run defense.

bfauble83 · #9 08-21-2003, 04:13 PM

All he had to do was participate in 51 percent of the defensive plays?...so its not even like he had to play hard, he just had to play half assed for a little over half a game and he'd get all of his money...what a moron.

rskinsfan10 · #10 08-21-2003, 04:20 PM

Which was exactly Cerrato's point when he said that the incentives were very attainable for him to recoup the lost money.

Skins57 · #11 08-22-2003, 09:24 AM

well like the qoute SS had in USA today. Saying the Skins were never great with BD and sometimes it is time for new players or something like that