Here's something the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Andy Fantuz should understand very quickly:
--Give Fantuz your best offer before free agency and make sure he's well aware that once free agency starts, the financial compensation goes down.
--Make sure Fantuz understands he's not going to have very long to consider the offer. He should really know by now if he wants to come back or not and if he's going to hold out to see if he can get an extra $10 000 a year on the open market then let him go. He's not playing for the right reasons.
--The Riders need to earmark their Fantuz money somewhere else very early on in free agency if the popular wide receiver isn't signed. The only thing worse than not getting Fantuz signed is letting all the other free agents on the market get signed elsewhere because you are saving all of your eggs for Fantuz.
Bottom line: sign immediately or good-bye. The last excuse I want to hear all year is how the Riders waited for Fantuz and after he signed elsewhere there was nobody else left to grab to make the team better.
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