“It's hard to characterize negotiations, but there are issues that we have not agreed on. We're just going to move ahead and see if we can reach an agreement. If not, we'll analyze our options and move forward.”
“The number in the first four years has basically been the same since 1998. Four years, $24, $25 million. So I assume they'd be very happy to keep that number there. The fifth and sixth years of a contract at that level are what would normally correspond to with a guy's free-agency contract. So that's why I don't think it's very unreasonable for the numbers to jump up then.”
“[With Alex Smith and the 49ers still far from reaching a contract agreement, the team's plans for the No. 1 pick in the N.F.L. draft remains uncertain.] It's hard to characterize negotiations, but there are issues that we have not agreed on, ... We're just going to move ahead and see if we can reach an agreement. If not, we'll analyze our options and move forward.”
“Based on what he's accomplished and on his statistics, if you compare what he's done to what some of the other top quarterbacks have done, he certainly doesn't come anywhere near them in terms of compensation.”
“Simeon's got a huge cap number [$9.2 million], so people just assume somebody's going to try to do something with him. But I don't know anything about a trade.”
