Comments on: Deion Branch’s Agent At Fault?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:52:05 +0000

Other players Chayut represents:

Dunta Robinson – Texans
Sheldon Brown – Eagles
Ko Simpson – Bills
Johnathan Joseph – Bengals
Tim Jennings – Colts
Greg Blue – Vikings

The agency that he works for, Manhattan-based ‘Sportstars’, won ESPN.com’s agent draft derby this past year: [ESPN External Link

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:06:51 +0000

Deion Branch is one of the most under rated WR in the game. The Patriots have been successful by refusing to “overpay” players — see Lawyer Milloy & Co. Who knows how this will pan out for the Pats this year. . . but it sure does seem like Tom Brady can throw to nearly anyone.

Maybe the Patriots will come up with new techniques on player valuation rather than saying “go see what you can get on the market because you will see that you won’t get much.”

By: Spulture

Spulture — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:56:47 +0000

I don’t think you can really blame the agent, unless he’s the one who convinced Branch to holdout in the first place. The biggest mistake was telling him he could seek a trade. It’s like the Patriots thought that he’d go out on the market and nobody would offer him the money he wanted…then he’d see the foolishness of his holdout and come into camp. It was an idiotic thing to do because if you’re the Jets or any other division rival with cap room you have to make him an offer just to hurt your competition. That’s what happened, and once he saw that someone was going to pay him #1 money he surely wasn’t going to come back to work for less.

In any case, I think Branch is probably the biggest winner now. He got a big contract and won’t give up anything, although he might feel bad if the Pats return to dominance.

By: DerekScott

DerekScott — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:18:17 +0000

Who else does Chayut represent? Any other Pats?

By: Dan Claycomb

Dan Claycomb — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:05:00 +0000

Quick update: Trade made between New England and Seattle, New England gets first rounder. With this new information I got to say that Jason Chayut got his job done.

By: Havlen

Havlen — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:57:51 +0000

I think these are oftentimes the issues where the sports media runs their mouth about something they don’t know much about. I’m not saying this is the case in this instance, but knowing that much of communication is non-verbal, it is really very difficult to tell what went on between Branch’s agent and the Patriot’s staff. Even if we had a transcript of everything said we wouldn’t have the tone in which it was said.

I do think this is a situation that hurts both the Patriots and Branch and that both sides need to put aside their egos and try and get something done (whether that be a trade or a contract.)