Baker rips Jets in today’s JN
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In today’s paper, we have the full story from yesterday, with comments from Jets coach Eric Mangini—who said he hadn’t talked to tight end Chris Baker about the contract impasse—and general manager Mike Tannenbaum, who answered questions using a memorized set of talking points such as: Baker signed a contact and we expect him to be on the team.
Although, that seems to be the prevailing point of view on this board given the responses to the Baker posts on the blog.
One thing I will say to the idea that athletes are spoiled and rich—and some are for sure—but Baker is no superstar and there are no guaranteed contracts in the NFL. What he makes now is it, and if he doesn’t make the roster next season he will have trained through high school and college for a job that lasted six years.
He will then need to find a second way to make money—be it coaching or freshening his skills from Michigan State. Hopefully he invested well. But this—the height of his career—is the time to press his advantage in the business sense.
- His skills didn’t seem rusty yesterday even though he missed all the voluntary team workouts. Baker even made a nifty one-handed catch in practice. He took reps with fellow tight end Bubba Franks, while Dustin Keller and Jason Pociask were the second string.
- Pete Kendall, the guard who went through the same kind of contract dispute last year before being traded, and he was put in the rookie dorm. Baker said the Jets hadn’t done anything which might be construed as insulting to him.
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