Breaking: The Cardinals and Kyler Murray Have Deleted the 'Independent Studies' Contract Clause

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If you're a professional sports franchise and an agent looking to
extricate yourselves from a situation that makes your most important
player/client from looking so disengaged that he has to be paid extra just
to prepare himself for games like parents bribing a teenager with extra
deserts if he promises to stop robbing prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto and
do his math homework:

Kyler Murray Says It's 'Disrespectful' and 'Almost a Joke' to Question Him
Getting Paid Extra to Study Film 4 Hours a Week
Patrick Smith. Getty Images.When you're recent No. overall pick who just
got re-upped on a $230 million extension, despite your sub-.500 career
record and coming off a playoff stat line of 19 of 34, ...

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… well it's almost impossible to find a worse way to make the situation go
away than the Cardinals and Kyler Murray's representatives just did. No
sooner did news of the bizarre, terrible-look incentive clause the two
sides negotiated became public, that they agreed to get rid of it.

So presumably, a boardroom filled with professionals in business attire
sat around a boardroom hammering out a $230 million contract. Someone
brought up the perceived problem of Kyler Murray not putting enough
preparation into his quarterbacking. Someone else suggested maybe he could
get paid extra to do the bare minimum required of someone in his
influential position. Someone asked how much time they were talking about.
A number was arrived at. The other side asked how much four hours a week
(just under 35 minutes per day) was worth. That dollar figure was arrived
at. Handshakes all around, followed by signatures. Everyone was happy.

That is, until someone leaked it to Ian Rapoport. Then it became an
embarrassment to the team and to Murray. He then tossed detonator caps
onto the fire by complaining about the fact anyone would complain about
it. And suddenly that incentive clause gets torn out of the legally
binding agreement like the Sanity Clause in a Marx Brothers bit:

Nothing to see here. Everything is super swell. Kyler Murray is the
hardest working man in the quarterback business, with an almost
clairvoyant power to know what an opponent is going to do before they do
it. Without all that time wasted sitting in a film room studying looks and
tendencies that most of the other QBs do.

But if either side thought that quietly taking that incentive out of the
deal would make this firestorm go away and restore confidence in Murray,
they've got another thing coming.

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