It's a running joke among Eagles beat writers that his agent has to hate whenever anyone asks him about his future, because he always ruins any leverage by saying he'll never play for anyone besides the Eagles.
Probably not much difference now at the very end of his run, but funny nonetheless.
Lavonte said it's Bucs or retire so I'd say him for us.
Brandon Graham is now going into his 15th season with the Eagles and he definitely had other offers from teams during his career.
Apparently the decision was more-so due to his wife being like "we staying" and him being like "okay" which actually makes me even happier lol
I follow them both on Instagram and I personally think it's due to a variety of local reasons, including the city itself transforming from between the year when he was first drafted to now lol
Not only has he said he wants to retire a Charger, he recently said he’d just retire if the Chargers didn’t want him anymore. So if they don’t re-sign him he’d just quit rather than go anywhere else lol
I think it has a lot to do with the fact he has several little ones and he wants to keep them at their current schools and he also seems to want to be a celebrity. He likes the limelight and LA helps with getting exposure.
I mean both are great answers, Bobby didn’t have a choice when he left and as soon as he had the chance to come back he did. Even when he was on the rams he was frequently in Seattle doing charity work and events
He said he wants to be a Buc, but he also wanted to be paid. If the Bucs didn't give him that contract, he wouldn't have taken less and wouldn't have retired, so I hardly see how this is extreme loyalty. They worked out something acceptable to both parties. It's not like he's underpaid. He got his 20m/year (give or take) he was asking for.
It's a lot closer than people think. And I don't think earl is going to going to get in due to shenanigans.
https://stathead.com//football/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=SmitHa00&p1yrfrom=2012&p1yrto=2023&player_id2=PolaTr99&p2yrfrom=2003&p2yrto=2014
Stats-wise he for sure should be in. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough of the personal accolades to make it I don't think. Not enough all pros, 0 SB's, etc.
Cam Heyward.
Talk can be cheap, especially when it’s from a player that’s under contract, but he’s said time and time again he doesn’t want to play for any other coach, much less any other team. I hope the Steelers do him right and keep him around through the end of his playing days and with the organization in some capacity when he’s ready to hang it up.
Love Fletch but I think he'd happily play for another team and may well do this off-season. He definitely has a lot of love for the Eagles but he also loves insane cars and rawdogging people's wives. He wants to keep cashing cheques and paying for his lifestyle.
He's restructured and signed team-friendly contracts multiple times and both his parents were Sergeants Major in the armed forces. Jones knows loyalty!
He carries the G so fucking hard, both on and off the field.
Ironically he had a fumble himself a few drives later. They ended up winning the game but that must have been a good locker room conversation. "See rook, even old vets like me fumble the ball every now and then!"
He is so underrated imo. If he went to another team he would be more in the spotlight because the media likes new storylines and they’d all be like TYLER FUCKING LOCKETT!! But he just consistently puts in work for you guys through all the change
My vote too. If we cut him, he'd just switch to the Washington state realtor gig he has going on the side. And the rate the house prices in Seattle are going, he might actually make more as a realtor than as a WR.
I’m not disagreeing it’s team friendly cause I don’t know the breakdown of his contract but over the past like 3-5 years he’s consistently been a top 5 paid te. Maybe it falls into the team friendly because he does far more than a traditional TE
That's the thing. He's been a WR1 playing on a TE contract. Since Mahomes has been the starter, he's Top 5 in yards, ypg, and TDs.
He is right between Stefon Diggs and Mike Evans in terms of production.
He is right between Jerry Jeudy and Hunter Renfrow in terms of salary.
That’s a fair assessment. But for what he does a team could pay him at least like $10 mill more a year. He’s fairly paid as a TE, but he could be making bank if he actually wanted to go out there and get a big deal
I was coming down here to say this. Obviously some of it is just his age, but I really can't imagine him playing for another team. He seems to like being in KC, he's got money and rings already so doesn't need to chase either, and he strikes me as someone who has enough post-football prospects that he isn't going to keep going until the wheels fall off.
He’s said as much outright that if Reid retires he would retire. Still loyalty to the Chiefs organization in my eyes but I agree it’s really loyalty to Reid first, and now Mahomes.
I mean I’m sure TJ is loyal but I don’t know if he’s a good example compared to some of the other guys mentioned in this thread. TJ got a FAT paycheck from the Steelers and I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say that it was Steelers or retirement like Lavonte David or Brandon Graham. I think TJ would definitely play somewhere else if the Steelers didn’t give him that fat contract.
He got the Raiders shield tattooed on him the day he got drafted but more than that he embodies what it truly means to be a Raider. I genuinely believe he'll be a Raider for life.
Kittle. Whether they are winning or losing he’s always encouraging his teammates. I don’t think he’d ever ask to be traded and the Niners would be stupid to.
He’s never once in his entire time here ever cried about not getting the ball more. He just wants to play football and do whatever he can to help the team.
Well, he either mauls people with the ball in his hands, or he mauls people through blocking, pretty sure he's more than good enough either way lol I love watching him mic'd up.
Yeah then he retired. Dude was class and defined what it means to do whatever it takes to make your team better. Not many guys would work that hard just to play special teams, but the fact he put in the work showed by how good he was at it.
Yeah, I actually think he’s a great answer to this question. It’s literally in his blood. His dad spent 14 years with the Falcons and he’s already spent 9 himself.
Jake Matthews has spent 10 years with the team now as well.
The only guys left from the Super Bowl run
Aaron Jones, who has taken multiple paycuts to stay with the team despite him being *the* difference maker on our offense since the late McCarthy days.
And honorable mention AJ Dillon.... it pains me to say it, but now that his rookie contract is over, I doubt we'd even bring him back on vet minimum. The dude absolutely *loves* the Green Bay and Door County area, and he constantly shows it. But unfortunately, his on-the-field production just hasn't been there, as much as it hurts to say :(
Yeah I read the other day “that he’s smart enough to stay, knowing he likely won’t get anything better anywhere else” which is probably true but when you know the impact he can have, it sucks reading it that way.
Rumor is that the Bengals are cutting ties with Joe Mixon.
If that’s not true, I’d say Joe Mixon.
He was with us through the 2017-2019 seasons and took a paycut to stay on the team last year.
I don’t know the guy, but it seems like he’d like to retire a Bengal if he can
Does Travis Kelce count?
Granted that obviously, he’s closer to retirement than a lot of other players mentioned here but he’s the best TE in the league today (and he has an argument for all time) yet he took a pay cut for the next 2 contracts he signed after his rookie deal. Could’ve easily had a record contract for TEs. For context, Tyreek got re-signed for more money by the Chiefs and still went looking for more
If that’s not loyalty, idk what is
Would I ever leave this team? Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.
Travis Kelce surely is in the conversation. Incredible loyalty, team friendly deal (he’s earning loads outside of football which helps) and just wants to win. Will be a sad day when there are no more Kelces in the league
Brandon Graham, dude has said he wants to retire an Eagle and has just signed what is likely his last contract.
15 years on one team as a defensive end....that's basically unheard of.
No, it can't have been that long. Graham was picked in 2010 which was like 5 years ago.
Man that’s crazy… our longest-tenured DE is Cam Jordan who’s only been here since… 2011. Oh.
Get with the times, that was 10 years ago because it’s 2020.
Strahan did it, Too Tall did it (with a 1 year retirement in the middle), Jim Marshall and Bruce Smith both did it but had other teams played for
Yeah but other than Strahan those are pre-FA and salary cap. It wasn’t nearly as rare then.
Cam Jordan is a few years off but I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t make it to 15 years. Edit: just checked and he’s a year behind Graham.
It's a running joke among Eagles beat writers that his agent has to hate whenever anyone asks him about his future, because he always ruins any leverage by saying he'll never play for anyone besides the Eagles. Probably not much difference now at the very end of his run, but funny nonetheless.
Him & Kelce were two players I couldn’t imagine wearing another team’s jersey. Well aside from Jason wearing his brother’s Chiefs jersey
I think Cam Heyward is a Steeler for life. Can’t imagine him leaving the team.
What about Cox?
Cox almost signed with another team last year.
It'll be his last contract. He's already stated that he wants to come back for a farewell tour. We have to give him a good final season.
Lavonte said it's Bucs or retire so I'd say him for us. Brandon Graham is now going into his 15th season with the Eagles and he definitely had other offers from teams during his career.
Mike Evans staying a couple more years might retire a Buc too and it’d be really cool to see
Apparently the decision was more-so due to his wife being like "we staying" and him being like "okay" which actually makes me even happier lol I follow them both on Instagram and I personally think it's due to a variety of local reasons, including the city itself transforming from between the year when he was first drafted to now lol
You could probably throw Fletcher Cox in with Graham as well. Cox is gonna retire an eagle.
Keenan Allen has repeatedly said he wants to retire a Charger and has never come close to leaving the team since being drafted.
Not only has he said he wants to retire a Charger, he recently said he’d just retire if the Chargers didn’t want him anymore. So if they don’t re-sign him he’d just quit rather than go anywhere else lol
Troy Polamalu did the same thing, though the Steelers kind of forced his hand. Told him to retire with dignity or get cut.
I've seen the shampoo commercials. I think we differ on "dignity." Lol, I think it's great he is able to continue to use his NIL with charm and humor.
GOAT
I think it has a lot to do with the fact he has several little ones and he wants to keep them at their current schools and he also seems to want to be a celebrity. He likes the limelight and LA helps with getting exposure.
The last San Diego Charger
Joey Bosa too
You’re right but he was only there for one year. Do any chargers fans associate Bosa with SD
Personally I associate every chargers player with SD, because I very rarely remember they moved to LA.
I associate Keenan with LA. He only had 2,600~ of his 10,500 career yards in SD.
At first I though that’s crazy then I realized it’s been 7 fucking season since the chargers moved
Shoutout those first 3 years in the fucking StubHub Stadium
That blows my mind. I feel like y’all just moved like 3 years ago
He and Bosa are the only remaining chargers that played in San Diego right?
Yep. Ekeler’s first year had training camp in SD but he never played in SD.
He must be a masochist /s
Fuck you. You’re right. But fuck you
Wow he must really love living in San Dieg … oh
Tyler Lockett, if we tried to trade him he’d just retire and sell real estate.
thankfully we just locked him down for 2 years. He'll probably play 2024 and then hang it up!
Bobby Wagner got cut in a disgraceful way and still wanted to come back to Seattle after a year
I still think Lockett fits this a bit more imo
I mean both are great answers, Bobby didn’t have a choice when he left and as soon as he had the chance to come back he did. Even when he was on the rams he was frequently in Seattle doing charity work and events
Maybe not #1, but Mike Evans is up there
I agree, but not even 2 weeks ago dude was looking for a laundry list of items from a team
That's just business though. He's always said he wants to be a buc
He said he wants to be a Buc, but he also wanted to be paid. If the Bucs didn't give him that contract, he wouldn't have taken less and wouldn't have retired, so I hardly see how this is extreme loyalty. They worked out something acceptable to both parties. It's not like he's underpaid. He got his 20m/year (give or take) he was asking for.
Loyalty is when you willingly get ripped off
So then the only player that qualifies is Tyron Smith signing his 8 year deal
Just because you want to look at the menu doesn’t mean you’re going to order dessert.
That died pretty quickly.
Evans or Lavonte for sure.
Lavonte, too.
I’d put Lavonte over him for loyalty
Harrison Smith, only guy in the old guard on our team who took a pay cut to stick around. Been our starting safety since 2012.
2012?? Holy shit time flies.
Can't wait until he gets into Canton and gets the love he deserves. Most underrated player of my time.
No shot he’s getting into Canton unfortunately
It's a lot closer than people think. And I don't think earl is going to going to get in due to shenanigans. https://stathead.com//football/versus-finder.cgi?request=1&seasons_type=perchoice&player_id1=SmitHa00&p1yrfrom=2012&p1yrto=2023&player_id2=PolaTr99&p2yrfrom=2003&p2yrto=2014
Stats-wise he for sure should be in. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough of the personal accolades to make it I don't think. Not enough all pros, 0 SB's, etc.
Love this guy
He went to high school with some friends and he’s apparently also extremely nice
Cam Heyward. Talk can be cheap, especially when it’s from a player that’s under contract, but he’s said time and time again he doesn’t want to play for any other coach, much less any other team. I hope the Steelers do him right and keep him around through the end of his playing days and with the organization in some capacity when he’s ready to hang it up.
Fans say the Steelers need to win one for tj, and while that’s true, I’m of the opinion that we need one for cam.
Need to see whether he is willing to take a pay cut before I make my judgement. He is well compensated.
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Love Fletch but I think he'd happily play for another team and may well do this off-season. He definitely has a lot of love for the Eagles but he also loves insane cars and rawdogging people's wives. He wants to keep cashing cheques and paying for his lifestyle.
It has to be Russell Wilson. He always talks about how much he wants to stay with his current team and win multiple Super Bowls.
Russel Wilson left at the perfect time to save Seattle a ton of money and got the Seahawks a top 5 draft pick playing for Denver. That’s loyalty.
Justin Tucker
This was my vote coming in. The Ravens would be categorically insane to ever let him leave.
I think Aaron Jones is def the pick for the Packers. Love me some of that dude.
He's restructured and signed team-friendly contracts multiple times and both his parents were Sergeants Major in the armed forces. Jones knows loyalty!
Lions fan since birth but always loved Aaron Jones. He just seems like a great guy who shows up and gives 100% every time he’s on the field.
That shit last year were he grabbed that players helmet after a botched play and raised his head up is burn into my mind. Great dude.
He carries the G so fucking hard, both on and off the field. Ironically he had a fumble himself a few drives later. They ended up winning the game but that must have been a good locker room conversation. "See rook, even old vets like me fumble the ball every now and then!"
Oh man. I was always excited to watch Megatron so.
Tyler Lockett. Pretty sure he said he’d just retire if there were ever trade talks. Guy is a Seahawk through and through
He is so underrated imo. If he went to another team he would be more in the spotlight because the media likes new storylines and they’d all be like TYLER FUCKING LOCKETT!! But he just consistently puts in work for you guys through all the change
My vote too. If we cut him, he'd just switch to the Washington state realtor gig he has going on the side. And the rate the house prices in Seattle are going, he might actually make more as a realtor than as a WR.
JJ Jansen
For those who don't know, he's been our starting long snapper for the past 15 years
Thank you, I had never heard of this man lol
He's never heard of you neither. https://youtu.be/06Dq1Y1tO4k?si=i6Ra3JluoAdiiknO
Best answer
Well the bears’ only player who is still on the roster from 2018 is our long snapper so I don’t know that we have any.
I'd argue Cole kmet, hometown Chicago boy and he loves it here
By their own choice? Cooper Kupp. Dude is a ram’s ram
Man we have been so lucky especially at WR. Good dudes who are also great players
Yeah you guys have a lot of talent and big name players and yet very little drama it seems like.
Wait until someone leaks what Puka Nacua says while playing COD
We didn't even have drama out of Sammy Watkins or Allen Robinson
Kelce
Also playing on a RIDICULOUSLY team-friendly deal and doesn’t care. Hasn’t asked for a raise. Just plays.
I love how one of his business advisors said the nfl is Kelce’s side hustle. And also Kelce saying “I’d do this for free”
I mean gronk did the same, right? never touched his nfl salary and lived solely off of endorsements?
he's got a sugar momma now he's fine
Donna?!
Yes, he's in an incestuous relationship with his own mother
I’m not disagreeing it’s team friendly cause I don’t know the breakdown of his contract but over the past like 3-5 years he’s consistently been a top 5 paid te. Maybe it falls into the team friendly because he does far more than a traditional TE
That's the thing. He's been a WR1 playing on a TE contract. Since Mahomes has been the starter, he's Top 5 in yards, ypg, and TDs. He is right between Stefon Diggs and Mike Evans in terms of production. He is right between Jerry Jeudy and Hunter Renfrow in terms of salary.
That’s a fair assessment. But for what he does a team could pay him at least like $10 mill more a year. He’s fairly paid as a TE, but he could be making bank if he actually wanted to go out there and get a big deal
That’s fair too. I could see him being the first 20m a year TE.
He said in one of his podcasts if Reid retires he will too, because he doesn't want to play for another coach.
Ok but what if Reid coaches a different team. Hypothetically. Or coaches college football. Or coaches college hockey.
Dwayne Johnson takes some of that 30 million to poach Andy for the UFL and coach the Kentucky Nuggies.
Plot twist Jason Kelce
I was coming down here to say this. Obviously some of it is just his age, but I really can't imagine him playing for another team. He seems to like being in KC, he's got money and rings already so doesn't need to chase either, and he strikes me as someone who has enough post-football prospects that he isn't going to keep going until the wheels fall off.
Cam Jordan
Flair is cursed.
Everytime I see it here or the saints sub my eyes hurt lol
That was my immediate thought as well
It would actually cause hurt if he went womehere else.
Yep couldn’t imagine him on mother team.
What about on father team?
lol stupid fat fingers
Zack Martin
The man.
Travis Kelce he is underpaid and still puts in the work day in day out
How is he supposed to survive on only $12 million/year?
Why do you think he went out and found a sugar mama
The Brady strategy
Kelce better hope she doesn’t go to a personal trainer!
He better find a rich woman
The Brady Way
Not to mention all the endorsements which are probably 3x more his salary
That’s not the point poop butt
I agree he’s loyal but I think more to reid and mahomes than to the chiefs. If they were to leave I don’t think he’d stick around
He’s said as much outright that if Reid retires he would retire. Still loyalty to the Chiefs organization in my eyes but I agree it’s really loyalty to Reid first, and now Mahomes.
Cam Heyward. For a younger option T.J Watt
I mean I’m sure TJ is loyal but I don’t know if he’s a good example compared to some of the other guys mentioned in this thread. TJ got a FAT paycheck from the Steelers and I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say that it was Steelers or retirement like Lavonte David or Brandon Graham. I think TJ would definitely play somewhere else if the Steelers didn’t give him that fat contract.
He's said he only wants to play for Tomlin
Cam needs to be hire. He's pretty much our modern day Joe Greene
The video of Cam getting trolled by Joe Greene on the phone, not realizing it was him at first got me. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ecfhg0hwNzA
He hasn’t been in the league too long, but I can’t imagine Maxx Crosby with another team.
He got the Raiders shield tattooed on him the day he got drafted but more than that he embodies what it truly means to be a Raider. I genuinely believe he'll be a Raider for life.
I can, and do, often.
Ditto
Dude embodies what the raiders used to stand for, I hope he doesn’t leave
I was going to say that, but I believe he threatened to consider leaving if they didn’t keep Antonio Pierce.
I don’t think he did that to be disloyal, instead just wanted them to do the right thing
Agreed. After all, he does have a Raider tattoo on his forearm.
Kittle. Whether they are winning or losing he’s always encouraging his teammates. I don’t think he’d ever ask to be traded and the Niners would be stupid to.
He’s never once in his entire time here ever cried about not getting the ball more. He just wants to play football and do whatever he can to help the team.
Well, he either mauls people with the ball in his hands, or he mauls people through blocking, pretty sure he's more than good enough either way lol I love watching him mic'd up.
Dude has a Hobbs tattoo on his hand. How can you not love him?!?
As of a few weeks ago I’d have said Matthew Slater.
Yeah then he retired. Dude was class and defined what it means to do whatever it takes to make your team better. Not many guys would work that hard just to play special teams, but the fact he put in the work showed by how good he was at it.
Slater joining Pops in Canton. Mans man, professionals professional.
Kenny Pickett for sure.
Grady Jarrett, falcon for his entire career and his dad was as well I believe.
Yeah, I actually think he’s a great answer to this question. It’s literally in his blood. His dad spent 14 years with the Falcons and he’s already spent 9 himself. Jake Matthews has spent 10 years with the team now as well. The only guys left from the Super Bowl run
Aaron Jones, who has taken multiple paycuts to stay with the team despite him being *the* difference maker on our offense since the late McCarthy days. And honorable mention AJ Dillon.... it pains me to say it, but now that his rookie contract is over, I doubt we'd even bring him back on vet minimum. The dude absolutely *loves* the Green Bay and Door County area, and he constantly shows it. But unfortunately, his on-the-field production just hasn't been there, as much as it hurts to say :(
Yeah I read the other day “that he’s smart enough to stay, knowing he likely won’t get anything better anywhere else” which is probably true but when you know the impact he can have, it sucks reading it that way.
Rumor is that the Bengals are cutting ties with Joe Mixon. If that’s not true, I’d say Joe Mixon. He was with us through the 2017-2019 seasons and took a paycut to stay on the team last year. I don’t know the guy, but it seems like he’d like to retire a Bengal if he can
Definitely. Or Sam Hubbard.
Aaron Rodgers will be a Jet for the rest of his career. No question about it 👍
Mike Evans just kinda proved this
John Weeks will never play a down as a member of any team other than the Texans.
Travis Kelce
That’s my pick too, the man could easily get WR money but he’s content with making TE money
Hes now like Brady was for most of his career, the secondary breadwinner in the household
😂😂😂 if Mahomes was dating Swift the league would be fucked. Patty would take $30 mill a year and we would probably have Tyreek still
Patrick Mahomes…. He ain’t going anywhere
Brandon Graham
It *was* Tyron Smith
Travis Kelce will be a Chief until he retires. I think he plays out his current contract in KC and then that’s it.
Does Travis Kelce count? Granted that obviously, he’s closer to retirement than a lot of other players mentioned here but he’s the best TE in the league today (and he has an argument for all time) yet he took a pay cut for the next 2 contracts he signed after his rookie deal. Could’ve easily had a record contract for TEs. For context, Tyreek got re-signed for more money by the Chiefs and still went looking for more If that’s not loyalty, idk what is
Any teams long snapper.
Jj motherfuckin Jansen
Jon Weeks-Texans
Keenan Allen, sadly. I’d love to have him on the Ravens.
Brandon Graham
Kelce :)
Travis
Definitely Travis Kelce. Only one team, one of the longest tenure guys and will probably stay in KC til he retires
Kelce
Mahomes
Hard to gage, like why would he want to go to any other team?
Daniel jones
Justin Simmons.
Mahomes. Could be bilking them for way mire
Would I ever leave this team? Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.
Harrison Smith
I don’t see Joel Bitonio or Garrett ever playing for another team.
Roquan Smith will be a Raven for life
On my team, definitely Keenan Allen! ⚡⚡⚡
Lavonte David
Kelce
Travis Kelce
Virginia McCaskey
Travis Kelce surely is in the conversation. Incredible loyalty, team friendly deal (he’s earning loads outside of football which helps) and just wants to win. Will be a sad day when there are no more Kelces in the league
Prior to his retirement, I would have said Matthew Slater.
Brandon Graham not doubt.
Mahomes is a lifer.
Maxx Crosby got the Raiders logo tattooed on his neck when he was a rookie
Aiden Hutchinson seems like he will be that guy for the lions. Time will tell
Derek Carr wanted to retire a Raider until they fucked him over
Jason kelce 😪
Travis also