Simeon Rice, Andre Wadsworth, Bryant Westbrook, Peter Boulware, and Walter Jones are all Barnes-Parker clients who held out. Rice is holding out on the Arizona Cardinals right now for the second time since he was drafted in 1996. Yet that, as Barnes sees it, shouldn't be a part of this deal. All we ask for is nothing that is unprecedented. The Eagles have given a high draft choice a four-year deal.
Free agency is vital to a player.
Corey is not asking the Eagles to give up any of their rights. All he's asking is to let him have a four-year deal like they gave Mamula. He's not asking for anything that the Eagles haven't done in the past. There's precedent for all of it. Barnes said he also is sensitive to the toughness of the Philadelphia fans and the media.