‘it’s great to be a packers fan’……..

Sure it is……NOW….

But it wasn’t so much fun being a Packers fan back in the 80′s was it, when the Packers sucked and it was the Bengals going to the Superbowl….

The ‘Bengals’ did not decide that Carson was going to retire.

Mike Brown did. Not the same thing.

The Bengals / Brown are the laughing stock of pro sports. Feel bad for their fans who just shouldn’t show up for games.
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Now, wait a minute …

I’d say the Bengals have a dysfunctional owner … but then again, the man makes a heckuva lot of money without investing anywhere near what some other owners invest. And this team won its division just two years ago playing against the defending Super Bowl champion and the defending runner up in the AFC Championship.

The Browns are a team on the rise who last year beat the defending Super Bowl champion and could well surprise everyone this year by snagging a Wildcard. This is a storied franchise with eight league championships. My Steelers didn’t win a single playoff game in the first 40 years of its existence. Fortunately, the fans didn’t give up on them.

Seems to me like dwindling supply of competent QBs + growing demand to fill the position with same = possible bidding war on the horizon?

Just because anybody says one thing (alleged clueless owner/GM Snidely Brownlash included) doesn't actually mean that's the be all & end all for eternity. Poker features something called "the bluff", and Harvard Lawyer & master negotiator/contractual engineer Brown understands this just as well (if not better) than just about anyone.

The alleged feeler to #9 a couple of weeks ago was to warn him of the either/or point for reporting and the steps Brown would then be forced to take as a demonstration of the leveraged hand he could throw down on the former QB in case he eventually called Brown's supposed 'bluff' & reported for $pite, after which it would no longer be any sort of bluff at all … but rather a hot & ready howitzer pointing straight at his bank account.

I've grown so very weary of the pointless kneejerk lemmmings constantly typing "why hasn't stupid Brown traded him already?" for the same 2012 draft pix that he'll still be able to get same as now & which wouldn't do a thing for this year's edition in either case.

Plus there was always the possibility that French maid Garcon Palmierre could have seen fit to grown a pair & come to his senses (all except wifey the pants wearer would never sign off on that) in time to actually still be an effective part of the 2011 Bengals?

Peyton is not done. I have a good feeling he will be back by week 15 or 16.

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Is that feeling based on the recent surgery that you performed on him or some psychic ability that you possess…

Idiot

Because if a player retires in the middle of a contract he still has to honor the contract if he comes back. The contract is essentially put on “hold.” Favre retired at the end of his contracts. So, if Carson doesn’t get traded or cut he’s stuck with the Bengals at least through 2014.

If that’s all any player had to do to get out of a bad situation, they would all be doing it. Palmer has 3 more years on his contract. He could be out of the game for a decade but those 3 years still belong to the Bengals when he comes back.

Unless the Bengals grant him his release he will still be property of the Bengals if he pulled a “Favre.” As long as the Bengals don’t release him and he retires then tries to come out of retirement the only way he can play for another team is if he is released.

2) Remember the Mike Brown/Sam Wyche “He Fired me!”, “No he quit” controversy. In that one, Sam apparently made an ultimatum to quit if Mike didn’t do something and Mike accepted it as a resignation. Mike never paid Sam’s last two years on his contract. The Carson ultimatum will be handled the same way.

Carson said to Mike that he’d retire if he wasn’t traded. Mike won’t trade him, so he will refuse to pay Carson nor let him near the field. (See Steve McNair lockout that took a court order to let him practice). In this case, Brown has a case as Carson’s agent went public and Carson never publically denounced it. So it is a reasonable assumption that Carson is retired and the club made changes based on that assumption.

3) IF Carson came back, expect Brown to sue him for damages and breach of contract. Carson’s refusal to play has cost the team a draft pick, a free agent QB pickup (Gradkowski), and probably at least 15,000 season tickets and the damage can probably be multiplied/accounted for the remaining years of his contract. That $50 million nest egg he has saved could go up in smoke in court and Brown would rightfully, in my opinion, be owed the damages for what Carson has done to the team.

4) Carson can’t simply retire and then unretire a’la Favre. It requires two things. First, after filing retirement paperwork, the team owning the contract must file with the NFL to relinquish it. Second, the comissioner must approve the reinstatement. Do you think Brown will voluntairily give up Carson’s contract? Do you think the Commissioner would approve Carson’s re-entrance into the NFL without Brown’s concurrence? NO!

Finally, Carson can’t wait three years until his contract expires. If he doesn’t show up before the sixth game each year, he doesn’t get credit for a year against the contract. Thus a three year hold out will result in him still owing Brown three years of service on the contract.

Carson received bad advice, whether it be from his agent or wife (wanting out of Cincinnati). Best he can do is be a commentator for one of the networks and use that as a bully pulpit to criticize Brown and the Bengals.

Or Dalton could look great in practice, and Mike Brown would be reminded of all that money he’s wasting on a QB they don’t need.

Win-win.

Of course, this assumes Carson doesn’t look good enough, himself, to make a case for starting. He just wants to look good enough to be a competent backup.