Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback Carson Palmer’s career probably at an end
Many football players end their careers in their early 30’s and retire to pursue other careers or because of family, career ending injuries and physical fitness. There are many good reasons to end a football career. Carson Palmer has no good reason to end
his.
The Cincinnati Bengals quarterback is more than physically capable of playing football, as he has no immediate intentions of pursuing some other goal which he cannot do alongside football. He actually does not even want to retire, but he will because he
just does not get along with his team.
Chad Ochocinco, formerly known as Chad Johnson threatened the same thing against the same team, as he wanted to be traded, but the Bengals owner refused to entertain his request and made sure the trade did not happen. Brown is a hardliner when it comes to
dealing with players and it is expected that he will not take a lighter approach when dealing with Palmer.
That leaves only one option for Palmer, stay with the Bengals or retire from the National Football League. Palmer appears to have his mind set on surrendering and retiring from the NFL. Things between Palmer and the Bengals might not be rosy, but trying
to put the blame of it all on the Bengals just is not going to work and will be disastrous for Palmer. He will not be remembered as a quarterback who retired at the top of his game, but instead as someone who quit when things got a little difficult for him.
Mike Brown has Palmer’s destiny in his hands. In just threatening to retire Palmer, has shocked and alienated the Cincinnati fans. When he signed his previous contract with the Bengals, worth over a hundred and eighteen million, Palmer said that he wanted
to play with the Bengals till the end of his career, but I am sure he did not mean it like this.
Now those Cincinnati fans who have been following Palmer for the past 7 years do not know who to idolize and who to hate. Palmer is not just abandoning those fans, as he is saying that he would rather not play football and let millions of dollars go rather
than play for them. Cincinnati fans right now are torn between making sense of why their hero has forsaken them.
Palmer is one of the better quarterbacks of the NFL, but he is far from the stuff of legends. If even the Cincinnati fans begin to hate Palmer, that is it for his legacy. The end of Carson Palmer’s NFL career will be a story of two very stubborn men.
No one really knows how things got so bad between the Bengals and their quarterback. It has been suggested that there was no one thing at the core of this uncomfortable relationship and that little things kept piling up and making the relationship difficult.
Over time it got to the point that Palmer is absolutely determined to get away from the Bengals at all costs. If nothing else, it shows how well the Bengals have been able to keep dissatisfaction under wraps until it got to the point of blowing over.
Mike Brown has a tough decision to make. If he lets Palmer retire, then he is missing out on trade options. More than a couple of clubs are looking for quarterbacks and Palmer will be an excellent choice, which makes him an expensive trade. Brown can get
high draft picks or even a veteran quarterback for Palmer, but that will mean surrendering to Palmers demands. Brown feels the long term damage of caving into the demands of unsatisfied players will be greater than the short term cost of not trading Palmer.
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