NFL minicamps have started, and with them, the annual slate of players who want better contracts and are not afraid of showing it by holding out of training camp. While these mini-holdouts rarely ever materialize into full-blown regular-season holdouts, it’s always possible that a team could call a player’s bluff only to realize that they are, in fact, not bluffing.
It usually doesn’t ever work out in favor of the player (look at Le’Veon Bell, for instance), but NFL players don’t tend to care about the potential for failure; they are supremely arrogant beings, and I say that in the best possible way. Their arrogance and sheer belief in themselves are truly inspiring, even if it is inherently irrational. These players are able to look billionaires in the eyes and tell them “no.” Which is nearly unheard of nowadays.
