Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry is frustrated with his stalled contract negotiations as free agency inches closer.
Landry - who just finished playing out the last year of his current deal - apparently hasn't made progress in trying to secure a new contract with the Dolphins. Miami presented Landry's agent, Damarius Bilbo, with an offer in mid-December, which he and Landry counter-offered in response. Bilbo and Landry said the Dolphins haven't responded to their proposal.
Although Landry wants to remain with the Dolphins, he couldn't help but voice his disappointment with the process.
"I displayed I was a team guy," he said to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. "My agent and I talked about being a leader and setting a good example so I silenced all those things by going to OTAs and training camp, by putting the team first and being a team guy. I feel like in the NFL, they preach loyalty and family and they have none for you. As a player, you see it’s not a family during negotiations, how it becomes them versus me or me versus them. That’s part of the NFL I believe the fans don’t see."
Landry also called the Dolphins' tactics "disrespectful."
"I tried to handle it the right way and figured if a team values you and wants you to be a part of the team, why haven’t they answered (the counter-offer) in the past month?” he added.
Landry caught a league-high 112 passes for 987 yards and nine touchdowns in 2017.
The Dolphins can elect to use the franchise tag on the receiver if the parties can't reach a new agreement before free agency.
