Another Hillis story, another bunch of idiots making excuses for him. td40-probably walking around in his Hillis underwear.
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You’re the one with greased up bodybuilder pics on your bedroom walls, not me. Pretty much all anyone needs to know.

Which you don’t see anywhere here, there, or on the internet, because outside of Cleveland, the people who choose what it is said here, there, and on the internet, love them some Hillis.

One NFL player refused to be benched with broken ribs.
Peyton Hillis refused to play with strep throat.

Those are the facts, forever. And they’re juxtaposed, forever.

And outside of Cleveland, they’re the only thing that’s germaine.

Strep throat, left untreated, can have deadly implications.

So yeah: no story.

Well, that’s the point *I’m* taking from it, at least.

Sure, it sounds reasonable that a starting caliber player at a flashy position wouldn’t want to play with a sickness for a relatively low salary. But anyone who has seen or heard Hillis give an interview should have know that’s not who he is. I guess the Madden exposure can work against you, because you’re a household name and halfwit journalists will run with a crappy story because they don’t know any better.

I agree, I’m a little disappointed in Schefter for pushing this story like he did. He lost some points from that in my book. I’m gonna push some blame on this site too. You guys prolonged the story by quoting a source that simply said his agent told him not to play.

No attempt was made to further clarify when his agent came out and said this: “I would give him the same advice to him or any of my clients as if he were my son,” McGuire said in a phone interview. “The game is physical enough, and the way Peyton plays the game, he needs all the elements of his physical game. Him being sick, and the level of his sickness, is the equivalent of being injured. Not only could he have hurt himself but he could have hurt his team. Nobody embodies Cleveland like Peyton Hillis. If anyone wants to point a finger, point it at me.”

That certainly doesn’t sound like advice from an agent trying to get bargaining leverage in contract talks.

Just move on and start calling out players that show up, don’t do anything, and collect their paychecks … *cough Brian Robiskie *cough

See: LeBron James

I will buy into that there is some tension with the contract situation, but I don’t think it has affected Peyton’s effort on the field. Hopefully they get a fair deal done and Shurmur learns to best use Hillis and Hardesty.

Well that’s pretty convoluted logic. GMs negotiate with players that are openly holding out all the time.

But you’re saying Holmgren would cut off all talks because he felt a player staged a one-game hold out disguised as an illness?

Not saying that I think Hillis did that, because I don’t at all, but the idea that it would bring negotiations to a grinding halt if he did is not really supported by the reality of how business is done in the NFL.