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Join Date: Jan 2009
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He got a cold and missed a season.
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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He beat the holy shit out of his body for 7 years for barely over the league minimum, knew his shelf-life in this league was probably garbage and essentially held out without truly holding out.
Would it have been better had he just held out the whole season? He didn't just quit because things got hard; that's not how it went at all. Call it what it was - a holdout. If you call it a holdout from a guy that was getting pretty well screwed by a cheap-ass organization, it doesn't seem nearly as bad now does it?
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He was a backup in Denver for 2 years where he never touched the ball over 70 times a season. He was traded to the Browns in his third year where the Browns gave him a chance and he played well for 1 year. 1 good year and then he holds out.
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
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He's done yeoman's work for 7 years, took a hell of a lot of hits and has seen many a RB simply fall apart after taking that kind of physical pounding. He wanted to get paid before he hit the wall and I think he ultimately scared himself into getting the hell off the field. As it turns out, it was a pretty lousy financial decision. But oddly enough, had he simply held out altogether, he'd have probably gotten a nice contract this offseason. I'm just not willing to call a guy that was a D-1 fullback for 4 years and 7th round cap fodder that turned himself into a 1,000 yard power back a soft bitch.
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