{"id":4092,"date":"2010-03-31T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2019-11-28T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:48:26","slug":"tjb-has-insight-into-leon-washingtons-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/03\/31\/tjb-has-insight-into-leon-washingtons-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"TJB Has Insight Into Leon Washington&#8217;s Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at JetNation, we have been critical of Leon Washington&#8217;s agent, Alvin Keels.\u00a0 The criticism stems from his use of twitter and youtube in what we have perceived of a lack of professionalism at times.\u00a0 Keels has received a lot of criticism for not getting Leon Washington signed to a long term deal before his injury happened last season.\u00a0 TheJetsBlog.com has a very interesting exclusive that sheds some insight on what the Jets actually offered Leon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a source close to Leon Washington that talked  exclusively to TheJetsBlog.com, it\u2019s time to clear out some of the  tangled web the Jets front office has tried to weave during the Leon  Washington contract standoff. Webs that apparently began as early as  last summer with a tone-setting August <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/football\/jets\/2009\/08\/19\/2009-08-19__ryan_takes.html#ixzz0jlXaPWLp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily News report<\/a> that the Jets had \u201ca  $5million-a-year offer on the table, [with] $10 million in guarantees\u201d  waiting for the Jets running back to sign.<\/p>\n<p>It was left to the public assume the running back walked away from  the deal. According to TJB\u2019s source, this report was untrue. The team  offered under half of what they told the Daily News they did.<\/p>\n<p>No contract even close to those figures was offered by the team to  Leon Washington\u2019s camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejetsblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/tjb-exclusive-jets-max-offer-to-leon-was-2-4-million-last-year\/\">read the whole story here<\/a>.\u00a0 This changes everything though, the perception has always been that Keels and Washington walked away from over 4 million dollars per year, on a multi-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you think in our <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">New York Jets message board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at JetNation, we have been critical of Leon Washington&#8217;s agent, Alvin Keels.\u00a0 The criticism stems from his use of twitter and youtube in what we have perceived of a lack of professionalism at times.\u00a0 Keels has received a lot of criticism for not getting Leon Washington signed to a long term deal before his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-140","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47607,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/47607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}