Raiders coach Jon Gruden and holdout defensive end Khalil Mack haven’t spoken. Which is fitting
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Specifically, the two sides have had no contract talks since February, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media.
It’s hardly an encouraging sign, especially in the aftermath of Gruden’s remarks that fairly could be viewed as a slap at Mack, even if Gruden didn’t
intend them to be taken that way. (And if he didn’t intend them to be taken that
way, Gruden should be trying to undo the potential damage by setting the record
straight.)
Mack enters the final year of his rookie contract, with a fifth-year option salary of $13.846 million. By rule
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$40,000), but he can be fined a regular-season game check (
i.e., $814,470) for each preseason game he misses.
If the holdout lasts into the regular season, Mack will have to decide whether to show up before Week 10
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nudging his $13.846 million salary into 2019.
On Monday’s
PFT Live, Chris Simms predicted that Gruden, for whom Simms played in Tampa, eventually will insist on the Raiders getting the team’s
best player into camp. Gruden recently promised a gathering of fans that Mack,
the NFL’s defensive player of the year for 2016, would indeed return.
The lawyer for Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett says the accusation that he pushed and injured an elderly
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“There was no fighting, there was no pushing,” attorney Rusty Hardin told NJ.com. “The entire thing is ludicrous. That’s what I think we’ll find when it’s
all over.”
The charge Bennett is facing is serious: It’s injury to the elderly, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Bennett is accused of pushing his way
onto the field in Houston to celebrate after his brother, then-Patriots tight
end Martellus Bennett, and his team won the Super Bowl. In the process, the
authorities allege, Bennett injured an elderly paraplegic woman who was working
on the event staff at the game.
But Hardin said Bennett is not overly concerned because he knows he’s innocent and believes that when all the evidence comes to light
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“He knows he didn’t do this,” Hardin said. “He’s assuming the system will ultimately conclude that once they get all the information. But it’s obviously a
very embarrassing and humiliating thing to go through, walking out of a court
room with a bunch of TV cameras and in handcuffs, particularly for something you
didn’t even do.”
Bennett was a player for the Seahawks at the time of the incident in question but was traded this offseason to the Eagles.
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