Word: rosenhaus
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...irks other agents that Rosenhaus is the brash public face of the business. He titled his autobiography A Shark Never Sleeps. The first time he ever negotiated a contract, he brought an ESPN camera crew with him. This summer he was booed at a charity softball game. But Rosenhaus wins clients because he styles himself as a player's advocate. NFL teams routinely cut players for underperformance, injury or to chop costs. Rosenhaus turns the tables and demands renegotiations when a player overperforms. "The teams are allowed to ask a guy to take a pay cut or can just...
...talented (just ask him) Owens was lauded by fans and the media after playing while hurt in last year's Super Bowl. Then he hired Rosenhaus, who demanded a new contract--in a very public way. Usually agents prefer to negotiate behind closed doors; Rosenhaus and Owens went directly to the airwaves. "If Terrell overperforms, he should be able to upgrade," says David Cornwell, a former attorney for the NFL. "But how you go about doing this is key. Drew's strategy has created this huge issue with T.O.'s teammates and organization." Cornwell says Rosenhaus should have advised Owens...
...hear much complaint from Rosenhaus' clients, however. "You got a guy that basically sacrifices his personal life for his clients," says the Chicago Bears' Adewale Ogunleye. "He gives everybody the first-class treatment." And that often means taking on the owners on behalf of his players...
...Rosenhaus' mercenary approach has earned the enmity of rivals. "If players were women, he'd be a pimp," says David Ware, who left the business in part, he says, because Rosenhaus routinely poached his clients...
Despite such criticism, Rosenhaus says he wouldn't change a thing about his tactics. "There's never anything productive in looking back," he says. "I can assure you that at the end of the day, both Terrell and I will be fine." Just as long as he finds a team for Owens to play...