Comments on: Merriman isn't pleased with RFA tender

By: texasPHINSfan

texasPHINSfan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:47:30 +0000

This is a prime case of where the league can tell the players about letting the CBA expire:
“told you so”

By: dlmcc0909

dlmcc0909 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:17:49 +0000

They have a terrible player rep and now they cant complain about the CBA being terminated early. MErriman has not been the same player since he got caught juicing and then got himself injured. He is lucky they even made a contract offer. My guess is he would have gotten alot less on the open market anyway

By: jlbay

jlbay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:39:36 +0000

How the hell can any player who has 5 years experience be left speechless when this was common information 2 years ago. Were the players really that ingnorant of their own situations? And how is this in any way unfair to this roided up knucklehead . . . was it his union representative that elected a lawyer, who has no NFL playing experience and little to no union negotiation experience as the head of the union? If the players wanted this settled they should have elected Troy Vincent, a player who was heavily involved in the union for almost all of his playing career, knows inside and out the players vantage point on all this and is clearly smart enough, experienced enough and doesn’t have an ego at play, that he would have had to take a hard line during this process; in spite of the fact that the players will end up being the ones hurt.
Beside if you want to look at a player who has a legitimate gripe that this is an unfair situation, take a look at Leonard Weaver – the guy signed a 1 year Unrestricted Free Agent contract last offseason as a 4 year Unrestricted Free Agent, and switched teams. He played that season for the Eagles, made the Pro-Bowl, and now is a restricted free agent with a team that didn’t even draft him. Players, and I don’t know if there are any others in the NFL, who successfully became unrestriced free agents last year, should if they signed 1 year deals, be grandfathered into unrestriced free agents this off season – I am an Eagles fan, but fair is fair.
As for roidhead, he needs to shut up, sign a one year deal and hope like hell that since Europe has come up with a successful test for HGH, a new designer steriod is developed before preseason starts.

By: JoeSixPack

JoeSixPack — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:59:10 +0000

Thanks to PFT for breaking the news that Merriman isn’t very smart.
In fact I don’t think that word “speechless” means what he thinks it means.

By: SATAN567

SATAN567 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:48:58 +0000

@ Sourdough:
Everybody hates the Chargers, and contributing hate towards your stupid ass team does in fact add a lot of value to this site. Keep it up Charger Haters…… bring the pain.

By: realitypolice

realitypolice — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:28:57 +0000

He’s speechless because he’s stupid.

By: rubberneck

rubberneck — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:41:29 +0000

Why the highest tender? Are they just hoping his talent comes back?

By: Laxer37

Laxer37 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:23:53 +0000

Gotta love a guy that says “I’m speachless” just before he goes on a rant.

By: ebr362

ebr362 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:31:04 +0000

Typical of any labor union deal. Most workers only want to know how much they can/will earn immediately and will vote accordingly, they rarely take into consideration the other parts of the agreement. The owners are billionaires for a reason, they have business saavy that will serve them a lifetime.The players are only wannabe miliionaires[cry me a river) due to their athletic ability that serves them for 5-10yrs and plenty of them will piss that away on outrageous spending sprees before they are forty. The union leadership only cares about dues being paid, should be interesting to see how hard they work to get a deal done when players are paying union dues and not getting a paycheck.

By: Joe in Toronto, Canada

Joe in Toronto, Canada — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:13:55 +0000

Sourdough: You’re out of order, buddy. I call em as I see em, no matter the team.
I’ve praised Phillip Rivers here many times for his play.
You didn’t comment then though, did you.

By: terumi arai

terumi arai — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:54:54 +0000

Lights out yet?

By: The Wishbone

The Wishbone — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:29:41 +0000

The stupidity of the players gets more entertaining by the day. Does he not have an agent that should have explained this to him YEARS AGO?! Even without a capable agent, you’d think the players would know the rules. But, you’d be wrong!

By: NinerNation

NinerNation — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:05:54 +0000

He, like so many other players in the NFL, is an idiot. They don’t know the rules, and they certainly haven’t prepared for this, or the potential lockout. If there is a lockout, the players will be begging for their jobs back within 3 months…that’s around when they’ll run out of money.

By: zllabnkcoc

zllabnkcoc — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:00:43 +0000

It’s no coincidence that he’s done nothing since he got caught juicing.
Plain average.

By: Route36West

Route36West — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:29:11 +0000

I understand why hes upset. He knew this offseason was going to be the last year that his next contract was going to be based on how good he was when he was all juiced up on steroids.
Now he is going to have to play another year without the juice and he knows by the time he hits free agency in 2011 if their even is a season he will have 2 season of average play.
He knows Gms and Coaches will look at what he has done lately and they will see thats hes nothing special.
I am not a Shawn Merriman hater or a Chargers hater. Actually I have said the last 3 years I hope the Eagles meet the Chargers in the Superbowl or if the Eagles dont make it I hope the Chargers win.
But lets be honest I have never seen someones talents disappear so quick. Its defiantly not a coincidence that all this happened after his 4 game suspension for using steroids. I believe Merriman is a starting caliber player on some teams but he defiantly isnt a pro-bowl caliber player anymore and truly believe its because of the steroids. Until he shows he can be that good and piss clean at the same time I will continue to believe it was the steroids and not him that turned him from a 30 home run per year player to a 70 home run per year player.
I think the uncapped year will probably hurt him more then every other player. It will probably cost him $20-$30 million in the life of his next contract.

By: roofles

roofles — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:11:51 +0000

he ain’t @#$% without steroids.

By: Bee_Arthur

Bee_Arthur — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:01:03 +0000

Hey guys it was a supplement from GNC and it was completely accidental that it contained supplements. It’s true because he said it.

By: medic406

medic406 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:51:09 +0000

I hope this guy can play football for a long time. Society doesn’t need people this strong, mean, and stupid running around the streets with nothing to do and no one (like Roger Goodell) to hold them accountable. We know the Crimial Justice system cannot do it, as evidenced by the juice, Pacman etc.

By: HarrisonHits

HarrisonHits — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:50:34 +0000

@RayDaMayor comment of the day lolz
Merriman is just another fine example of the greed that drives these guys. Too stupid to learn how the system works and then get upset when it doesn’t work out the way they think it will.
Before the negotiations are over the players will be screaming to have the cap back in place.

By: prophet of the light

prophet of the light — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:37:09 +0000

That’ll be a first time he was speechless… too bad he was still talking.

By: Viper21

Viper21 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:30 +0000

He needs to be more worried about finding a way to mask HGH in his system. I didnt know HGH made you stupid. I guess the steroid damage was done before he switched

By: CanadianVikingFan

CanadianVikingFan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:59:55 +0000

Roid Rage episode II. Knocking on the Union’s door. Staring, Shawne Merriman.

By: bleedsoe9mm

bleedsoe9mm — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:44:38 +0000

too bad guys with mohawks can’t serve as union reps

By: Sourdough

Sourdough — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:39:51 +0000

Joe in Toronto, Canada: What is your infatuation w. hating all things Chargers!?! You truly are as predictable as the sun rising in the East. Yawn. Too bad you don’t actually contribute anything but hatred to this site.

By: WhoDat_champs

WhoDat_champs — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:38:59 +0000

Without Roids he is a below average DE. This team had it’s chance a few years ago when Marty Shottenheimer was around. Never win the big one with the librarian Norval.

By: onesweetworld

onesweetworld — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:28 +0000

Any Merriman post needs to include him being knocked on his ass by MJD

By: GirthyOne

GirthyOne — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:21:19 +0000

Busted for performance enhancing drugs. Not that bright.

By: JaggedMark

JaggedMark — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:21:04 +0000

Go bang out your frustrations on Tila Tequila, Shawne.

By: Mike Z

Mike Z — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:20:16 +0000

Rules are rules.

By: RayDaMayor

RayDaMayor — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:16:18 +0000

“I’m crying a river of cash….and I’m pissed off because it could have been an ocean.”
Merriman