Rodney cost the Pats a super bowl.

Rodney, you took less money? YOU WERE CUT, and the Pats signed you, I bet you took less, because they weren’t going to pay you what you were making in San Diego. You were a solid player who latched onto a great team and got a ring, now you latched on to NBC, and have a platform for your nonsense and you are hoping to get into the HOF by hanging around the game and being outlandish.
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Completely agree. Almost mirrored everything I said earlier. Glad someone else is older than 19 and remembers.

On paper, Mario joined what was shaping up to be a pretty tough, even scary, D-Line. Nearly every NFL analyst of any sort said the same.

In the preseason, Mario and the D-Line were one of the few units that actually looked decent, dare I say good. It was no secret that the success of the d-line was going to be a major part of every gameplan all season long.

Then, opening day came, and they disappeared. Completely. And the team fell apart. That must change.

The pieces are there, this team just so desperately needs a QB to pull it all together.

Maybe some players like to go to a proven winner and chase the ring that the team might have won anyway. Others might take more satisfaction in knowing that they helped a team who were not contenders *become* contenders. Or even if they never did break through, maybe they earned some extra money to set them up for the rest of their lives once they were forced to retire at 30.

Everyone has different motivations and I’m certainly not going to knock players who prioritize wins or money or loyalty or a team in a city with nice weather or whatever else they think is important. Rodney Harrison made his choice and now seems to be trying to convince everybody else, or maybe himself, that it was the right one.

Maybe he should’ve detailed exactly how much money he turned down in 2003 (and from whom) too, so we’d know if it’s really a valid comparison. Not that any 30-year-old free agent safety, elite or not, is ever gonna come close to having the market value of a 27-year-old elite defensive end.

There fixed that for you

The team got off to one of the worst starts they could have imagined, but it was one game. And if it turns out that Ryan Fitzpatrick can’t play the position, the Bills will go get someone in the draft or free agency next year, and Mario will wind up having played one season with Fitz.

Rodney can talk all he wants about taking less money to go to a winner, but he did that when he was a nine-year veteran at the end of his career, not a six-year veteran in his prime. Furthermore, it’s not possible for every player to go to an established “winner,” so some players have to go out and help build one.

For a franchise and fan base that has been suffering as long as the Bills, signing Mario Williams was one of the biggest beacons of hope probably since Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith and Andre Reed left.

No one is pleased with the way the season started, but without Mario Williams, Bills fans wouldn’t even have had hope for this season. Rodney needs to move away from his “rich get richer” mentality and have a little respect for a player who, while it may have been a money grab, brought some hope to a franchise that needs it.

Either way, you don’t always have to go to the best team or join a team that has a really good shot. He didn’t have to go to the Patriots or the Packers. Sometimes impact players can make a bad team into a good team or relevant team. There’s something cool about going to a team, not just for the money, but with the intention to turn it around.

I can’t say that’s what Williams did but who cares what Rodney Harrison thinks. His advice would probably also be to get busted for PED’s. If this was baseball Rodney Harrison would be ostracized, but since it’s Football it’s somehow different. This dude cheated plain and simple and now people are supposed to look up to him because he has a couple of super bowls. F-that.