Re: Samuel Signed
I fault him now for showing up late, and then trying some B.S. leverage play. It's idiotic - and his behavior all the way back to the Globe article prior to the playoff game has been just that, idiotic. And there's every reason to think he'll be MORE likely to get hurt, given his lack of real football action.
Whatever, he's back, he'll be good, I just think he's a tool. Especially after the "show up to sign and then not sign" fiasco. Just a total lame move.
Quite frankly, if you could play corner at a near probowl level, your opinion on this would matter.
Asante Samuel is paid to play football, and his decision making regarding his contract is part of the package. While it would be nice if his decision making in this area was as Pollyannic as yours, its one or the other, and I'll take the combination that wins us football games.
I becomes increasing frustrating to see fans with absolutely no personal stake in a players life hold them to standards that only exist with no personal stake.
We will never build a Super Bowl caliber team of athletes that think like toll booth collectors and have no ego. They are good players partly because they have an ego.
There is just not such a universe where human beings turn in to top skilled athletes, make all the sacrifices necessary to do so, have the confidence and ego to be that good, and make decisions based on what Joe Fan wishes would happen, when Joe Fans only motivation is what is best for the organization he roots for, at the expense of what is best for the individuals.
Why dont you go and turn yourself into a probowl level corner, get franchised, deal with that situation by capitulating to whatever the team wants, then go around calling someone IN THE SAME SITUATION AS YOU an IDIOT a TOOL, and LAME, and profess that you know better what he should do than he does himself.
Since that will never happen, how about choosing door #2: Be a fan, talk about football, and drop the character judgments you are so quick to make about someone who you know nothing about. One thing I do know is Asante Samuel has enough character to put in the hard work and dedication, and make the sacrifcies necessary to be a top professional athlete. That is a lot more character than I am seeing you show. Where character judgments are concerned asante samuel seems a lot more qualified to make them than you do.