04-20-2017, 12:28 PM
(04-20-2017, 03:30 AM)BigSeph Wrote: 1. You don't have a clue what's been offered for McCarron or what the Bengals demands are.
2. Carson Palmer made a lot more money than McCarron, and was "retired" at the time he was traded. Raiders had to take on his salary and the Bengals had no real leverage other than the Raiders' desperation after Jason Campbell went down with an injury.
You really draw some absurd equivalences.
The Bengals had all the leverage because of Mike Brown's stubborn ways and the desperation of the Raiders that you mention. Just as they have all the leverage with McCarron. The situations are similar, outside of the obvious talent difference between Palmer and McCarron.
No, we don't know what the demands are or what's been offered (although Jim O says no offers have been made, and he knows more than you or I)...but it'd be completely foolish to think it's anywhere near what Palmer got in return.
McCarron only makes that reasonable salary for 2017. That's not enough to raise his value higher than a proven franchise QB.
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