Carson Palmer: A Football Life

[*Go Cards*]

(08-09-2018, 09:16 AM)Pat5775 Wrote: Carson signed that contract a week before his knee got ripped to shreds by Pittsburgh. At the time he signed that contract, it looked like the team was going nowhere but up. The Bengals were a rising young team and just about everyone agreed the team had turned a corner. In his first 3 years as a Bengal, everything looked great. He would have been foolish not to sign an extension. 

Fast forward 5 years, and it's clear Mike Brown is still calling the shots (i.e. Ruining the team) and that maybe Marv isn't the best option as a head coach. Who knows what changes Carson wanted, but clearly a few of Marvins demands were met (I think they were all met this time around in January... Hopefully). 

The 2011 Bengals saw immediate success because they got rid of two of the biggest problems on the field, Chad and TO. Also, letting bratkowski go was long over due. We can't forget that the team went 10-6 and swept the AFC North only two years prior. If anything, I think having Carson throwing to AJ and the rest of the young guys would have been better than the rookie Dalton. Who knows how the next 4 years would have played out though...

Exactly yet he was not man enough to do so and wanted instant success or nothing. 

He went out trying to cripple the Bengals and all he did was miss out on a golden opportunity for NFL greatness for himself and turn half of his fanbase against him. A fool and his reputation are soon parted.

Addition by subtraction may have been the case with departures from 2010.  Yet Carson has to be named along with Chad, TO, as well. Because it is fact and anything else is speculation.

It was childlike, he was paid in excess of a hundred million and still was pouty and had all the resources he needed right here. 

Just missed his mama and that left coast I guess.