Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers revealed that the offer he received from the Patriots during free agency was just $1 million short of what he was being offered by Las Vegas. At the end of the day, Meyers chose to sign with the Raiders and realized that it was a business decision by New England.
“They just wouldn’t budge. At the end of the day, (Bill Belichick) didn’t want to move,” Meyers said, via MassLive.com. “And I respected it. Like it is his job to do what’s best for his team or what he thinks is best for the team. It just didn’t align on what I felt like I was worth.”
“They wouldn’t move,” Meyers added on the Patriots offer. “I wouldn’t have minded staying. It would’ve been a different conversation. I probably would’ve thought about it a little differently. I did enjoy Boston… It was definitely a sting when I left, but I understand the business side.”
Meyers then commented on the team replacing him with WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, who never seemed to get going for New England, coming over from Kansas City with his knee injury.
“Juju, at the end of the day, he’s a man and I respect him. It had nothing to do with him,” Meyers said. “I think he’s a good player. I just think football caught up with him. I don’t know what his situation is, but it’s tough.”
“It was a different experience. Who I was at that point in my career, I probably didn’t get as much respect as I would out here (in Las Vegas),” Meyers concluded when asked about going from Boston to Las Vegas. “I do (enjoy it more). I’m not going to lie. It’s different… There I had to prove who I was every day, every single day I had to be better. Here, I want to be better every single day, it’s different. Not to call people out or throw people under the bus, but I was more of a focus here than I was there. Where there, I was doing more of what I had to do to survive and feed my family.”
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