Or at least the Daily News has confirmed that the team has agreed with JPP on a new long-term contract, which is four years in length, according to ESPN.
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| Jason Pierre-Paul and Giants finally agree to long-term deal |
Pierre-Paul, though, contested reports of his new deal – or at least the language used to describe it – on Twitter.
“What the heck is people talking about I ain’t sign nothing,” Pierre-Paul tweeted on his account, @UDWJPP.
NFL Network broke the news of JPP’s new deal, saying the parties had “agreed to terms on a multi-year contract.” Pierre-Paul, though, lashed out at the New York media, not the national media, for mischaracterizing the situation.
“That’s New York media for yah!! They always want the story first and they got it wrong,” JPP tweeted.
Perhaps this was all semantics, though. Pierre-Paul may have seen some local media claim he had “re-sign” prior to his actually putting pen to paper.
Still, JPP’s reaction was strange considering his contract presumably was something for both sides to celebrate. JPP avoided playing on a third consecutive one-year contract, which he would have had to do on the one-year, $16.9 million franchise tag amount if he hadn’t agreed to a long-term deal.
And the Giants presumably saved important cap space (reducing that annual cap hit) with a long-term contract while also locking up one of their most important players, when healthy.
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