Colts proprietor Jim Irsay jumps into RB controversy with tweet

Indianapolis Colts Proprietor Jim Irsay dipped his toe into the controversy surrounding contracts for NFL operating backs with a remark that could possibly be construed as a shot throughout the bow at Jonathan Taylor. 

This offseason has been certainly one of a serious shift in what number of groups worth the operating again place and the way a lot they’re keen to pay even a few of the sport’s greatest gamers. Final weekend operating backs throughout the league even held a Zoom assembly to debate the present state of affairs.

Enter Irsay on Wednesday who took to Twitter to weigh in on the dialog out of the blue. 

“We’ve got negotiated a CBA, that took years of effort and onerous work and compromise in good religion by either side,” the Colts proprietor tweeted. “To say now {that a} particular participant class needs one other negotiation after the very fact, is inappropriate. Some Brokers are promoting ‘dangerous religion.’”

Loads of present and former NFL backs haven’t been shy about sharing their emotions over the present state of affairs for the place.

However, Irsay’s tweet would seem to mark the primary time an proprietor has weighed in publicly. 

And it holds much more significance since Irsay’s staff’s star again is getting into the ultimate yr of his contract and is hoping for an enormous payday. 

Taylor even jumped into the fray after Saquon Barkley and the Giants and Josh Jacobs and the Las Vegas Raiders failed to return to phrases on a long-term extension earlier than the NFL-imposed deadline for gamers that had been franchise tagged to comply with multi-year extensions. 

He tweeted “wow” moments after the deadline handed and advised ESPN in June that he had been monitoring the conditions of Barkley and Jacobs. 

“You see why guys request trades. They simply need to really feel valued by not solely their coaches, their teammates, however the group as properly,” Taylor mentioned. 

Irsay’s feedback aren’t prone to calm the discontent rising over how operating backs are being valued across the league. 

The change in notion stems from the narrative that gamers on the place are simply replaceable and resulting from their their excessive charge of damage and fast decline, they aren’t value a excessive price ticket. 

“Solely time once they select to say that [the position] is devalued is when it’s time to pay the operating again. … It’s not devalued in any respect. They simply don’t need to pay a operating again,” Steelers operating again Najee Harris advised reporters on Wednesday, according to ESPN. 

“It’s like, man, what’s the safety that we now have? We don’t don’t have any safety proper now. You guys are utilizing us to perform what you guys need. After which when it’s time for us to re-up or ask for one thing that we expect is true, you guys simply flip the cheek and say, ‘Effectively, you will have put on and tear.’ ”