That's literally how you sell houses. And in fact pretty much everything in a non-retail environment. Every business has a list price for its product, and every business is willing to negotiate on that list price. Think of each player as an individual business, with a product to offer (their play).
Well, they don't. Jamal holds the nuclear option, which is "freak you I'm not playing". It hurts him as much or more as it does the Jets, but it still hurts us plenty.
I agree that Jackson is probably a good negotiation point, that Jamal is worth a bit more, and that we should be spreading the cap hit as best we can. Pretty sure Jamal doesn't care what we do with the cap hit. He wants to get paid and he knows he's good enough to demand it. The headscratcher is that the Jets think an extra year of cheap Jamal is worth fighting for at the likely cost of us having his career.
How many people have you known accept an offer for a house more than 25 to 30% off the listing price?
Sure you take offers less than asking, but if someone's asking price is batshit crazy you put everyone off.
And Jamals demands are freaking insane.
And Jamals freak you I'm not playing hurts him WAY WAY more than the Jets.
He's under team control for 3 years. And he's made relatively paltry earnings in the grand scheme of his career.
Sure he will walk away with a few million, but he'd be leaving probably close to 10 times more than be made on the table.
The Jets on the other hand would hurt losing a player of his calibur, but we already have a potential replacement on the roster.
He can cut off one of the Jets fingers, but the price he would pay would be losing both his legs