Diendre Hopkins spent some parts of his fee contract negotiating the extension of his own contract which eventually added two years and .5 $ .. 5 million, keeping him in Arizona for the next five seasons.
Hopkins said his contract was “90 per cent” self-negotiating, a desire to run an operation after his sporting career ended.
Hopkins said Tuesday, “It’s ownership and I believe in myself and my abilities to study contract terminology and I know where I’m going to be after football.”, By the Republic of Arizona. “I know that one day I want to be part of an organization and help build it, so I think this was a good time to learn and study all this, hopefully, one day I will.
“I think just showing other players that you can do things yourself if you believe in yourself and have the right team around you. Agents are great. No one has ever been billed against an agent or against anything that was before. Never. There was no bad relationship with him. It was something I wanted to do myself. “
Hopkins is not the first player to negotiate his contract. New teammate Larry Fitzgerald has done it himself; Russell Okung, Richard Sherman, Bobby Wagner, Laremy Tunsil, to name a few, have also done their deals.
Nuke noted that his own deal negotiation process arose out of a desire to learn so that one day he would know what was on the other side of the table.
“There was a lot of reading, a lot of nights being spent learning the language and terminology of all languages.” “My mentors, my team that I have, people have been with me and have been with me for years. They are not only mentors, but also family and mentors for me.
“It’s a small group of people but we knew this was what we wanted to move forward and we became it.”
While most general managers have come out in favor of football .l of persecution, there is a strong history of capturing players and helping teams rotate. Today names like John Alway and John Lynch have come out. On the other end of the spectrum, the Washington Washington Football team recently added former NFL pitcher Jason Wright to run the business side of the building.
At age 28, Hopkins will not be retiring anytime soon. But when he does, he may intend to handle a team. It has taken him at least five years in Arizona to pick up Steve Kim’s brain on the job.