09-24-2015, 12:22 PM
(09-24-2015, 10:30 AM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: Here is what I don't get about the bulk of Bengals fans who despise Palmer. Would you all have preferred that he stay on the team, collect the $50 million that was still owed to him, and not wanted to be here? Would you prefer that he turn into a locker room cancer, publicly bad mouth the team, give less than full effort?
Think about how much conviction it takes to say "I don't want to be here, and would prefer to walk away from $50 million, then stay here another day". It's not like he just failed to show up to training camp. He gave the team plenty of notice so that they could make other arrangements. And I'm sorry, but the whole "he didn't live up to his commitment" speech that Mike Brown gave was crap... NFL teams cut players all the time who have plenty of money and years left on their contracts.
Palmer was posturing. He had no intention whatsoever to never play football again.
And something tells me he would have been happy playing on 4-straight playoff teams and throwing to AJ Green in the process. It wasn't just a coincidence he cut bait after a 4-12 season.
