The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are now on the clock.
According to a Pro Football Talk report, the agent for Johnny Manziel “has given the Tiger-Cats until January 31 to ‘work out a fair deal’ with Manziel. [Agent Erik] Burkhardt describes a ‘fair deal’ to mean a contract ‘on par with what Hamilton has paid their QB in recent years, despite not having much on-field success.’”
While this self-important contractual ping-pong will dominate the near future of the Manziel news cycle—as well as the subsequent outrage from those who think someone coming out of rehabilitation and NFL purgatory shouldn’t be so demanding—here’s a more important question the Tiger-Cats should be asking themselves: Will it be worth it?