Carson Palmer: A Football Life

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(08-09-2018, 12:08 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Was very vocal against this as well. Do not play favorites with my opinions, just spew them. 

But to the boneheaded owners defense, they did invest two early draft picks to replace them the previous year. 

Still it was as big of a debacle as Carson walking out on his boys. Leaders never do this without backlash. Should be expected and MB receives plenty of it too. 

When the monetary compensation funneled into their wallets is that humongous.  Then it becomes just par for the course to be critiqued by the peasants. 

We've seen NFL players become damaged goods and/or persona non grata due to their actions and Carson quitting on the Bengals led to him getting multiple offers, playing for another 7 years, and being welcome and made captain by other NFL teams and players.  I'm not saying he's a golden QB or anything, but I don't see the fallout of what he did.  We love to point out how everyone hates the Bengals...well, maybe that's part of the reason Carson Palmer demanding a trade from them wasn't career suicide.  There is a reason Tom Brady giving one of his coaches a dirty look is national news but players giving up on Marvin Lewis and the Bengals is "business as usual."

Also, if he would have played out his contract and then refused to stay here and leave as a FA I assume we'd have the same "You suck, we don't need you, you're giving up on the Bengals" attitude all the same.  It is the nature of NFL fans to loathe players that leave.  It's fandom at its best.