he should play another year then revisit the contract thing—i agree. he has very little leverage

Which we all know they always do. I’m sure they got offers but they had a price in mind and no one met that. Similar to Jason Taylor and Miami, they would have given him up for a first rounder no one paid so he is a Dolphin.

I can’t help but be excited for our defense in the coming months, if we aren’t in the top 5 on take aways/sacks/and fewest points allowed I will be pretty upset to say the least.

I’ll take it a step forward and say he has NO leverage at this point… Honestly, I don’t see things coming to this but in the worst case scenerio, Lito doesn’t show up for manditory camps… starts getting fined… goes the T.O. route and turns it into a circus… fine, here’s your conduct detrimental, take the season off… by the way, now you’re not making any more at all… next year rolls around, hasn’t shown he can stay healthy because he didn’t play all year and now has a bad attitude rap… have fun finding a big contract after the Eagles cut him… and as for the team, we’d still have Asante and Sheldon… We’d be fine = no leverage what-so-ever for Lito…

Having said all of these, I don’t think it approaches anything like this…. 1) I think Lito is a far better person than say… T.O. 2) Lito saw the T.O. fiasco first hand, knows the Eagles won’t put up with shit, and probably wouldn’t want to be in the middle of something like that

IMO, Lito maybe takes a step back and realizes the situation, talks to Andy, they restructure his deal a bit to throw him a bone, and he shows up and we move forward with a bad ass d. Once the offseason rolls around (assuming Lito stayed healthy), there’s basically 2 choices… 1) Move Brown to S like alot of people want and give both he and Lito new deals 2) Trade Lito for alot more than what we could have gotten this year…

If Andy is serious about “seeing what we can work out,” there should be some incentives worked into Lito’s contract for staying healthy.

According to eaglescap.com, Lito’s total contract is about 24 million with just under 8 million due in the last 2 years when there is no dead money. He’s got a beef because the Eagle’s have got him for dirt! Even if we consider his contract compared to other top flight corners and assume he can only play 12 games out of the year with 8 at 100 percent, Holmes can only really expect to get paid 60% of the top corners in the league. Using Asante’s contract as a model, then we’re looking at Lito being worth around 35 million total. He’s still cheap!

I like Lito. I love watching him return Tony Romo’s passes for TD’s. Perhaps incentives for staying healthy aren’t what Sheppard wants, but it would be a fair compromise that would keep him around and perhaps dispel any potential distraction before it happens.

The thing that surprises me most about Lito this year is his calculation. He has an injury-riddled year and then decides he wants a contract extension. How does that make sense? You’d think he’d have been clamoring for a new contract after 2006 when he made the Pro Bowl. Plus, he could have gone the Asante Samuel route and decided that he wouldn’t accept the contract being offered to him; however, he signed the deal. I just wonder what’s going through his head because this whole situation makes very little sense; he doesn’t seem to have through it through at all.

We still haven’t heard ANYTHING from Lito himself, so as far as I’m concerned, his “unhappiness” is just a phantom problem blown out of proportion by the media.