Insider Gives A Timeline Of When To Expect Matthews Contract To Be Done

You just don't want it to start creeping into the season because if you get two, three months down the road,
then you start asking questions. You're like, okay, like, what's holding this thing up?
But we're not there yet. So we shouldn't be panicking like that.

But it's right around the corner.

Although you'd like a contractor to be signed, but I don't know about you. I don't see that happening tomorrow, do you?
No, not tomorrow, but it sounded like things were headed in the right direction.
So, I don't know, you kind of just have to take that at face value if that's what the insiders or experts are telling you.
I would also imagine, because Jimmy, it is August 17th, there's nothing happening.
There's no point in announcing anything like that right now.
Even if it is done, why not just wait until the first day of training camp to announce it?
All the reporters are going to be there. You're going to be there.
All the news that where everyone's going to be there.
You don't have to call a big press conference in the middle of the summer and disrupt everyone's downtime.
And even for the players, you know, like having all your teammates around in one spot.
You do a nice dinner after all that kind of stuff.
In Italian, in Woodbridge, we call that the Bellettes, you know what I mean?
Like all that kind of stuff. It's a nice feeling for everyone if that's the way it's going to go down.
Yeah, absolutely. It's something for everybody. It's the way I describe that.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, you would like to have the contracts done.