I always had a feeling, based on his social media posts, that KG was always about the status/money/fame. I wouldn’t have trusted him with a big contract, I’m glad Brad didn’t either… He’s the wrong type of receiver for Goff (and Jones for that matter). He needs a gunslinger willing to throw him jump balls. His skills were maximized with Stafford.
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Picked Kenny with the 96th overall pick and got 4 years out of him and a 97th overall pick for letting him walk.
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Kenny G right now…retirement life is tough
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Adam Schefter reported Golladay turned down $18+m per year from the Lions.
Google it … it’s definitely out there.
The article that I attached said Brad was interested in doing a sign and trade, but determined it was too risky. Like he would get stuck with that contract and that player. I just don’t see Golladay being the type of player Dan and / or Brad would consider signing to a big contract. Do you?
I think Kenny Golladay was a victim of bad advice and is a cautionary tale. Kenny was not a turd. One of the things Quinn liked about him was how hard of a worker he was. Kenny turned heads in his first training camp. He put his name on the map when he hustled to make that big hit after an interception. He worked hard for his first (3) seasons. In his 3rd season, he spent half of the year with JV quarterbacks, but still kept pushing.
His 4th season is when things seemed to derail. We all sensed that he could play but was advised to sit and wait for his payday. I think this is where he “learned” how to be a slacker, and was rewarded hansomely for it. His time with the Giants seemed to mirror his final season with the Lions. When things were not lining up like he wanted it, he “sat out” of games he could have played in. His advisors were probably confident he could catch on somewhere else with a better QB situation after leaving the Giants. None of them counted on him doing so much damage to his mindset and reputation that he would never play football again.
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Maybe he got bad advice, but in the end, he is solely responsible for not playing when near consensus was that he was healthy enough to play. That is not a player I want the Lions to associate with. I don’t think it’s a player that Brad or Dan would seriously consider associating with. Pretty disgusting if he was making a business decision with 3/4 of a season to go.
Cameo was the effing BEST!
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I don’t consider it a “maybe” he got bad advice. He definitely did. There is an ongoing legal situation associated with his agent…who did some dirty underhanded tricks to steal Kenny from his initial agent. At the end of the day I like to think of Golladay as a cautionary tale and why the corny mantra of “how you do anything…is how you do everything” is true. Golladay was a hard worker and “go getter.” He was advised to back off and protect his healthy in lieu of how he had handled things up to that point. He never got back that “drive” to be the Kenny Golladay that Quinn drafted and that we saw in his first 3 years in Detroit. Being able to sit out and still cash in big with the Giants reinforced every single bad habit he created in his last year with the Lions.
I know that there was a dispute between agents trying to get Kenney G signed. Do you have proof that an agent told him not to play? I can’t find anything where that is stated. An agent telling a player not to play seems a little far-fetched. Imagine the payout if he has a monster year. And why wouldn’t they expect him to have a monster year? He had already played well his entire career. And shame on Kenney if he listened to an agent who told him not to play. Bottom line, getting back to the original question, I don’t think Dan and Brad were serious about signing him into a large contract for him to be a part of the Detroit Lions rebuild.
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I thought this was as good of places as I need to put this video.
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He likely got bad advice, but he liked his money a little too much. Hence, you surround yourself with people who like money a little too much. Hence you get bad advice.
You’re right, he was a hard worker. But you definitely have to raise your eyebrows when he sat out so long negotiating a rookie contract. These days (and even at that time), there isn’t a whole lot to negotiate. It seemed that he was almost willing to sit out over some likely minor details.
Can you see someone like Ra listening to his agent advising him to sit out for a payday? That advice would not even be considered by most people on the team right now.
All of these things can be true:
He was a hard worker.
He got bad advice.
He had some turd-like tendencies from day 1.
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Turd!!!
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Nice memory!
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Is that also what he liked about fatty patty or was it his discipline?
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Perhaps you should have googled.
You got your regimes mixed up…so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
2020 is bob quinn.
Brad holmes is jan 2021.
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He had a few years where he was really good!
Got the money and then he just wanted to party.
That was Bob Quinn’s best pick outside the 1st rd
Money doesn’t change you…it just makes you more of what you are!