Re: A great way to start a presser....Go Rodney!!
...On if we could see a Favre-like return: “Never. Never. For me, that’s a very thin line and a sensitive issue. I don’t want guys on my team, or guys I played with, to have to answer questions about Rodney Harrison’s return. When I made my decision to retire, I made my decision to retire. I just thought it would be very disrespectful of me to come back and forth and not make my decision. That’s why I said June 1 was my date. So now, being fair to my teammates, being fair to the organization I played and coaches I played for, I wanted to make that concrete decision and not have my teammates have to deal with it. I never want to be a distraction. … Like I said in my statement, I’m done. I’m very much so at peace with that.”
Rodney was the definition of a team player and a team leader and Bill's ideal of all in. He did as much for this team off the field as on it, not the least of which was pulling his teamates heads out of their collective asses after the Milloy trade. He gave them one game to wallow and then he challenged them to act like professionals and not broken hearted school girls. The lost again two weeks later, but then went on a tear...
What shapes you is what you lived through but I wish we'd have had a shot at Rodney a few years younger... He's the kind of player who makes you wish they could play forever, kinda like the QB and a certain ILB. And those are rare treasures.
