According to ESPN’s Chris Mortenson, the Philadelphia Eagles plan on reducing the 2012 salary of injured Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters. Peters injured ruptured an Achilles tendon while working out in Texas about a month and a half ago. They’ve already spoken to his agent Eugene Parker, and informed him that his salary will nearly be cut in half.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement states that a team doesn’t have to pay a player who suffers a “non-football injury”, which includes any injuries that occur away from the team’s workout facilities.
Article 20, Section 3 of the CBA states: “A player who is placed on a Non-Football Injury or Illness list (“N-F/I”) is not entitled to any compensation under his contract while on such list …” According to this clause, the Eagles don’t have to pay Peters anything, but they don’t plan on going that far.
Peters was supposed to make $7.9 million in salary this season, but it will be likely reduced by $3.5 million, which is what his replacement Demetress Bell will earn.
This is going to force players to live in the city where they play, and workout at the team’s facilities. If Peters had been working out in Philadelphia at the Nova Care complex rather than in Texas, he would be entitled to make his entire $7.9 million salary in 2012.
According to ESPN, Baltimore Pro Bowl defensive end (and 2012 Defensive Player of the Year) Terrell Suggs, who suffered a similar injury as Peters that also occurred away from the Ravens workout facilities, will also forfeit a substantial percentage of his salary.
See? This right here is the reason McCoy needs to hold out until he squeezes the last dime out of these shekel hoarders.
We’re constantly told players should honor their contracts yet these classless slugs called owners never honor their contracts with players.
McCoy buddy……get yours first…..you’re an injury away from the scrap heap.
I can’t believe that they are even going to pay him. Songs, I wouldn’t pay him at all. He didn’t get hurt on the field, it isn’t their fault. He also is insured. Also the new CBA, allows them not to pay him at all. He should be lucky he got anything.
No job will pay you if you get hurt off of the job. That’s what compensation & disability is for. What world do you live in. BOO HOO, he ONLY gets $3.5 M now. Gimmie a freaking break!!!
It’s in the rules and by-laws of teh CBA and it’s th erisk all players take..
The EAgles will compensate Peters in some form, but not at the original Salary..
Look the EAglews have played V Abriamri for the last 2-3 Seasons who has not played a down.. It happens both ways, some players get under while in camp or at the Center where the Teams are obligated to pay, but if you get hurt out on your own where no one really knows what happen’s, you assume that risk as a member and player in the NFL…
I would offer RB McCoy a 4 Year Extension.. He is eabout to enter his 4th Season as a PRo and probably has a good 3-4 Top Seasons left for RB’s take a pounding.. I would offer a 4 year $45 Million deal with a yearly Salaray of approx $8- $9 Million and then th erest is SIgning Bonus, Incentives, etc,etc…
If he injured himself as he says, using a piece of equipment, I believe a specialized chair that failed, then it is a no brained he should be paid as the locus of the injury irrelevant, as it easily could have occurred at nova care, maybe there is more to the story
LOL Im with you DCAR. Hard to feel bad for someone who is only getting 3.5 million. Thats why if you get hurt outside of work you better suck it up and pretend you pulled that muscle or hurt that back AT work. lol
That was not his original injury Jake. The original injury occurred, at least as reported, while working out on his own. The second tear occurred from the failure of the equipment.
If the Eagles do as described and subtract Bell’s salary , and pay Peters the rest, I believe that is a pretty fair deal for Peters considering that according to the CBA they are not obligated to pay anything.
Hope he had AFLAC….quack.
who cares what he gets paid Jason Peters is worth 7 points a game in my opinion so what ever the birds gained in Ryans, Cox, Kendricks they lost in Peters & Samuel ———————–8-8 record status quo
Paul, I don’t 100% understand all of this, but does the insurance he has compensate for any of his lost salary?……………If it does then what the Eagles did was honorable, because he could have been left out in the cold. Am I right?
If he loses 3.5 million to his 7.9 million dollar salary………he makes 4.4 million fellas
@green, the eagles are not paying his full salary because the original tear occcurred off premises while working out?
just figured it out, eagles not paying because the original tear occurred off premises even though it was a football related injury, that;s a screw job to peters
Peters is already a MULTI MULTI Millionaire. The money situation is what it is. I feel sorry for the guy in that now he has to rehab, longer, and returning to football is even farther in reach. It’s gotta be very depressing. But not financially. Dude is set. He could buy everyone one of us regular Gcobb posters a bigger house then we have now, and STIILL be a multi millionaire. He’s QUITE fine financially.
Jake, how is it a football related injury? The ORIGINAL one was, but if personally (not a pro athlete) injured my ACL out in the park running after my dog or kid, then I was on the roll-about or what ever that thing was, an it broke in my kitchen, and I reinjured it, that would have nothing to do with chasing my dog or kid.
Dude, you’re just looking for an angle to throw more hate to the team. Come on man.
@jake….it was stated in the article above. The original injury occurred in Texas.
Part of the new CBA is if an injury occurs off Team Premises, than the Team is not bound by the Contract with the player. This was probably done with the thought of players getting injured in non-workou related activities ..
Remember a few years back, players getting injured while motorcycing, playing basketball, sorftball, surfing, Zip-Lining, rock climbing,you name it.. Now the fact both Peters and Suggs stated that they were injured while working out is hard to prove either way and both players have been upstanding players on their Teams ..
Are you working out in a gym in a supervised setting in front of other people or are you working out in your home or garage where you have no witnesses.. But this provision was probably put in by the Owqners to protect their investments in a player who gets injured in risky activities in the off-season
My concern is this – for the Eagles to go to the point of cutting Peters salary in half (which, despite the vitriol above IS legal and IS part of the contract between players and owners called the CBA) is that to me –
I think this means the Eagles think the chances of PEters coming back are slim to none… you don;t piss off the elephant in the room unless you don’t plan on having the elephant around…. maybe I am wrong but I see Peters making his very nice sum this year while recovering/rehabbing, then being injury settled away next year…
as for my opinion of the stipulation of the CBA.. players wanted, asked for and demanded more time away from the game, the facilties and the got it.. the owners wanted to protect there investments..
this seems like a very resonable compromise – PEters wasn;t injured stunt riding a cycle (Winslow) riding wihtout a helmet (Big BEn) playing hoops (Suggs maybe) but working out… away from the birds facitlites..
I hope Pman is right and Peters had some sort of insurance (mnay college players have this type of insurance) thsat covers a career ending injury – and if that roll about failed, broke or misfunctioned – look at the settlement they are going to have to pay..
As I stated above, he claimed, he originally hurt his achilles, working out. IT IS NOT a work related injury, so the Eagles don’t have to give him $#!t. The new CBA protects the teams, in these cases. The Ravens are going through the same with Suggs & they aren’t giving him $#!T. So the Birds are doing him a solid, by giving him ONLY A MINISCULE $3.5M. GMCLIFF, that’s what they’re giving him, not that, minus his salary. jake would you rather his entire salary count against the cap, because they can’t release him. This is a major break for us. I’d rather have him, but he’s done & they have to move on.
Navy, I believe they said on WIP, that he also has a good medical/ insurance policy. I think Paul is correct, but I’m not 100%. BTW, for anyone to rip the Eagles anywhere for this are clueless, & don’t know what the heck is going on. I’m on their side on this one. I wouldn’t give him a f^#@ing penny. He should feel blessed that they at least give a $#!T.
Most players and surely the Top Earning Players have Insurance Policies to guard against their earnings potential in case of Injury. I would think any Sports Agent woryh his weight would be hard pressed to have any clients if this was not part of the Player-Agent Contract Relationship and a pretty standard package that most players have make arrangements about..
I think the Eagles will pay about 1/2 his 2012 Salary with the hopes of his return in 2013, now fast forward to next year and if he is not ready to go and replacement LT Bell has a solid year, then Peters could be released but The Eagles are a smart and caring orgainzation about their players and will give him every opportunity to return to playing football and hoefully he can..
This sounds harsh since Peters seemed to be training during the first injury, but G nailed it. Teams want their players working out in their complexes under the team’s supervision. They invest millions in guys that make their money by keeping fit and strong, it’s just smart business to be able to monitor your guys. If you had a team of 53 players, how can you possibly keep tabs on them all over the country? It’s hard to do if they all live in Philly. It’s good business and we know the owners all all about good business and protecting their investments.
Guys can take a gamble to train with peronal guys in another part of the country, but it’s a gamble and Peters just lost this bet.
What if this rule was in the CBA for baseball? Chase Utley would have trained with the Phillies doctors or risk losing his guranteed money. His secret training and lack of progress would have been addressed in January, not April. It’s protection for the teams that we as fans should appreciate.
Paul, they can’t release him until he is medically cleared. That’s something the players got in the CBA. That’s why they got lucky with this & the way it happened. If he would have gotten hurt in OTA’s, camp, or training at the Nova Care complex, they’d be totally up $#!TS creak, without a paddle, with a hole in the bottom.
jp, I was thinking the same thing about Utley.
I guess understanding the new CBA is good…But there are more important things to talk about G! Unfortunately JP is injured and won’t be able to help the team in 2012…So what he gets paid 3.5mil to do nothing…I find it extremely hard to believe that before the CBA, there were not clauses in player contracts addressing non football related injuries…In basketball, there have been clauses like that in player contracts for years…one case I remember was Jason Williams of the Bulls, got hurt riding a motor cycle, Bulls didnt have to pay him, because it was a clause in his contract…but paid him anyway…
But again, how about discussing things like, Matthews putting on 20lbs this off season…or how about progress of Hunt adding size and speed…or any other player that will be a contributor to the 2012 Eagles…
Word is that Yeremiah Bell is on the verge of signing….team is yet to be named but Eagles are still in the picture!!
Go get him Birds!!!
To DCar
Yes I realize that about Peters and other player who cannot be released until once they are medically cleared, which is why Victor Abiamri is still technically on the Eagles Roster for the last 2 years.. He got hurt in Practice during Team Football drills and has been milking it ever since..Some freinds said they bumped into him at a Baltimore area Sports Bar over the Holidays and that he’s almost 350 lbs..
I don’t hear people complaing the injured players that Teams have on IR every season that they have to be paid… It’s the nature of the business, you get hurt on Company time, your taken care of, when it’s on your own time, then there is Insurance to help take care of you..
Baseball is difference (where they have the strongest rules in protecting players contracts), I f a Player is deemed not find due to injury, the Team is still repsonsibile of paying the player regardless of the length of the deal)
I am sure Teams have seperate Insurances to help with these costs but since there is no Salary Cap, it’s all relative in terms does it hurt or restrict a Team from goign out and getting a replacement player so it comes down to how large you want your Teams Payroll to be and whether the Team cares about paying a Luzury Tax after reaching a certain Limit.. I wish Baseball would implement a Salary Cap to keep players Salaries somewhat in line and make it more competitive around the MLB so teams with deep pockets like the Yankees,Red-Sonx,Phillies, now the Dodgers, Anaheim,Texas just can’t go out every year and spends loads of $$$ for their Roster..
I believe former NBA’s Shawn Kemp even had “Fathering Children Clause” in his Contract too.. I believe he Fathered somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-15 Kids with different women during his NBA Career..
The Giants Tuck said they are looking to be a Dynasty with another championship in mind…Who would have known that the Giants would be in a position to win “Multiple Superbowls” while our “Golden Standard” gets nothing?
I mean…..Banner did say we had “The best roster in the league”, while the Giants methodically won 2 “Chips” in 5 years.
Well, we can just “Dream’ as our “Team” wallow in mediocrity with Andy’s “Chuck & Duck offense, and the failed offensive line coach (the Tonto to Andy Lone Ranger) continue to learn how to be a defensive coordinator.
It sure sucks knowing this organization will never win a Superbowl how it’s currently constructed….
We’ll get close which us Eagles fans are use to…so brothers let’s just imagine the sport is “horse shoes”……
You can actually win by coming close.
“umm hmm” as Andy clears his throat with that “I know what you don’t twinkle in his eyes, before quoting his infamous line right after insinuating how these rookies really “Cranked it up” this week.
“time’s your’s”
Les Bowens reports Drew Rosenhaus told radio in Miami that Yeremiah Bell will chose among Jets, Eagles, Chiefs and Titans in next 24 hours
speaking of more important things to talk about – check out the top headline on bleedinggreennation.com.
I sure have my hopes up that it’s for real, and it’s us. I am officially all in hoping this happens. That would be AMAZING. It would also require Songs to hit the speed dial to the local crow delivery shop ASAP – regardless of current hunger situation.
Reality….it’s sweet when one can see clearly instead of hoping through luck that things will just fall your way.
But guys….Eat up the Eagles spin machine….Be good slaves and go drink multiple glasses of fluoridated water to numb your brain further and shoot your children up with a healthy dose of autism in their next strain of poisonous vaccines to get the next generation of Eagles fans prepared for the green, long shaft while walking clinically retarded.
Every thing is fine……DRINK MORE “GREEN” FLOURIDE LACED WITH “ASPARTAME” rat poison sweetener.
GO EAGLES!!!
When peters got injured he was training for the season.
So he says, but that can’t be proven and it really doesn’t matter if he truly was, Under new CBA rules if a Player is working out on his own away from Team Headquarters and Supervision, and becomes injured, the Team does not have to honr it’s contract.. Remember that the players union and leadership ratified and supported the new CBA… This is the new NFL ..
Been hoping they pick him since the draft… at 34 and having played for Bowles – perfect to come in and be a mentor to the 3 drafted guys.. Asmo, Bell and Ryans… 3 solid vets
Navy – throw Jenkins into the mix there. One per unit on the D. (ok, 2 in the secondary).
Songs, I would hate to think any Eagles fans are dumb enough to believe vaccines cause autism.
horatio….here’s doctors reports pushed under the rug….Vaccines have never been proven to protect anyone from diseases but in fact introduce diseases which the majority of the population have a 1 in 10 million chance of running into and if they did…the actual immune system would do it’s job.
Wake up….paste this link..
watch vaccines the hidden truth…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjpbV8R4Y-c
Doctors who are told one thing while in the profession realizes the vaccines are pharmaceutical company’s dreams come true.
Time released sicknesses which they provide the medicine for the symptoms.
retardation, autism, asthma, brain tumors, cancer..the lists goes on and on….wake up and stay away from the fluoride …or better yet…just focus on sports.
go get your kid a bowl full of aspartame gum….it’s awllll good!
this is a bad unfair provision in the new cba, allows owners at their discretion to not pay salaries if the player is injured off premises virtually for any reason whatsoever, running to stay in shape, weightlifting, throwing, all the things you would want your professional athletes to do in the off season, now the incentive is to sit on the couch and wait for otas, training camp before you do anything so as not to risk millions, and note it is not mandatory for the eagles to not pay, it is at their discretion, look at the how the players look at this, here is peters busting his ass to become a better gets injured, sorry says joe and howie, there goes half your salary, gold standard we are, but not according to peters, djax, dawkins, trotter……..
horatio….here’s doctors reports pushed under the rug….Vaccines have never been proven to protect anyone from diseases but in fact introduce diseases which the majority of the population have a 1 in 10 million chance of running into and if they did…the actual immune system would do it’s job.
go to youtube.
watch “vaccines the hidden truth”…
Doctors who are told one thing while in the profession realizes the vaccines are pharmaceutical company’s dreams come true.
Time released sicknesses which they provide the medicine for the symptoms.
retardation, autism, asthma, brain tumors, cancer..the lists goes on and on….wake up and stay away from the fluoride …or better yet…just focus on sports.
go get your kid a bowl full of aspartame gum….it’s awllll good!
Songs, you were supposed to stop eating those paintchips when your parents told you to a LONG time ago. Well consider this another friendly reminder.
classic rev. songs, trying to educate the ignorant, realizes the futility in this exercise, tells horatio to remain in ignorance, get your kid some good cancer causing gum to boot, lmao
Jake – well then the players shouldn’t have signed the contracts they signed, and the players union shouldn’t have signed the CBA. You can sign contracts and then complain about the terms. You know who has said nothing in complaint about this? Jason Peters. Nor his agent. And for you to suggest that Dawkins, Trotter, Djax (who at this point is probably a walking salesman for the Eagles front office) and Peters would easily agree with you on this is making an assumption.
You really think if you asked Jason Peters right now what his problems in life are, that he’d say anything about money? The dude is most likely pissed about the injury, and he should be. But to assume that he’s pissed about the money is foolish.
Jake the true Eagles hater. Always looking for another reason to rag on the front office. The Ravens are doing the same thing to Suggs now and chances are, the other 30 teams would/will too.
Ever hear the phrase “the NFL is a business”? If not, go learn and wake the f up. It is. Dawk knows it. Trott knows it. Peters knows it.
schiller, show some respect to rev. songs, he’s providing a public service here on a sports blog,as the prisoner in trading places, “what is you ignorant”i
Songs, I hope that you are well intentioned and ignorant, and will therefore take the time to read some of the latest literature:
http://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autismandvaccines.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Autism/Index.html
I also hope you realize that diseases such as measles are still quite common and extremely deadly:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/index.html
Failure to vaccinate against measles kills people. This isn’t some 1 in a million chance of dying, this is over 100K people dying every year because they haven’t been vaccinated. 30 years ago, before the vaccine was widespread, over 2.6M people would die every year.
There is no way anyone can honestly claim that vaccines hurt 2.5M people every year, so I hope you are merely misinformed about the benefits and risks of vaccination.
Classic Jake annointing his hater role model “revereand” for no other reason than he wants to kiss his ass. And using the term “educate” because the man said something.
Jake, let me “educate” (in your sense of the word) you on something: The United States of America is a small island, mostly desert, off the coast of Siberia, just west of Antartica, and it has a tropical climate for most months of the year. It’s native language is Sanskrit and it’s population is 2.”
See I just posted something too. Doesn’t mean it’s education.
jake – what has he done to deserve respect but posted bullshit that is unfounded?
wow schiller, I thought you were only an educated derelict, but maybe I am wrong, just a stupid derelict, you dont think peteers is pissed about the cut of over three million?
as songs says schiller, stick with football, chew some gum, its all good
Songs, I hope that you are well intentioned but just ignorant, and will therefore take the time to read some of the latest literature. Search for “autism vaccines” to see reports by CDC and other recent articles showing no connection between the two. You should also know that the man who originally published an article claiming a link between the two has since admitted his work was a fraud.
I also hope you realize that diseases such as measles are still quite common and extremely deadly. Failure to vaccinate against measles kills people. This isn’t some 1 in a million chance of dying, this is over 100K people dying every year because they haven’t been vaccinated. 30 years ago, before the vaccine was widespread, over 2.6M people would die every year. (Search for “measles deaths” to for a citation.)
There is no way anyone can honestly claim that vaccines hurt 2.5M people every year, so I hope you are merely misinformed about the benefits and risks of vaccination.