My disconnect is that people think if he had an agent, he would drop this silly quest for fully guaranteed, and sign a Raven-friendly contract.
He would still be going for fully guaranteed, the only difference is that half of the "Sources with knowledge" quotes would be sympathetic to Lamar, rather than the narrative that we have now, which is the poor pluckyy Ravens trying to give him a more than fair deal, and Lamar's MOM IS MESSING EVERYTHING UP
Of course the agent would
start with going for fully guaranteed, but the difference is that he WOULD drop this silly quest for fully guaranteed because he would have his finger on the pulse of what other teams and QBs are discussing and would very quickly realize that the Watson deal was a one-off from a terrible, desperate franchise, not the new normal.
It's not a "silly quest" it's a reasonable goal. These funny money contracts are nonsense and, frankly shine a negative light on the agents, and ownership of course but that's obvious, for being complicit in them.
Guaranteed contracts exist in every other sport, and there is plenty of physical risk involved in them as well. Just ask any team that signed Derek Rose.
The NFL is incredibly shady with their contract structures and their, effectively anti-trust status (32 separate businesses my ***). We should all be rooting for Lamar to get his guaranteed deal.
In the battle of 32 billionaires v 1 millionaire why not side with the underdog?
If you're siding with the 32 billionaires you might want to research the history of labor laws. Your 40 hour work week, overtime pay, paid vacation, sick leave, meal breaks etc (all of which, and far more, are being systematically dismantled [FFS some states are reconsidering child labor laws]) didn't appear out of the ether. People bled, quite literally, for those benefits.
Unless you're a candidate to buy the Washington Commodores, you should be 100% pro labor and, by extension, pro Lamar.
Apologies for the rant but... seriously, I mean... seriously.