Weddle - Loyalty to your former team keeps you from helping your current team?

[Kato]

Kinda ridiculous. Who pays your current paycheck?

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Rams' Eric Weddle won't share inside info on Ravens

Eric Weddle won't be snitching on his former team.

The Los Angeles Rams' safety faces off against the Baltimore Ravens Monday night in a pivotal tilt for both squads. Yet, after spending three seasons with John Harbaugh's team, Weddle won't be spilling any state secrets to Sean McVay about how the Ravens defense operates.

"I could tell them a lot of stuff, but that's just not who I am," said Weddle said, via ESPN's Lindsey Thiry. "So we're going to play it on the field, and the best team is going to win."

Weddle signed a two-year, $10.5 million contract with the Rams this offseason after the Ravens released him in March. The veteran safety landed in Baltimore after having a falling out with the Chargers after nine seasons. Often times teams will seek out a former player to pick his brain about certain tendencies, or how the defense/offense might run. McVay, however, suggested how much they bilk a player for info changes from situation to situation.

"It's totally at each person's individual approach," McVay said when asked if it's considered unfair to share info about a former team.

Weddle certainly has prior knowledge of Don "Wink" Martindale's operation, and how one might beat said plan. The 34-year-old's insistence on not sharing insider information with his current employer speaks volumes about the organization run by Harbaugh, Ozzie Newsome, Eric DeCosta, and owner Steve Bisciotti.

"I have a lot of respect for that place, not only how it helped my career and rejuvenated my career, how they treated myself and my family," Weddle said. "But it's a very tight-knit group, and what would I be -- what kind of man would I be if I just turned my back on all of them?"

Monday night will be one #RevengeGame served without a side of revenge.

 

[Froob]

Wtf?

 

[borg]

Mangini concurs

 

[fair catch fryar]

Heck of a football player, but jeez...what a dumbass. It's professional football where loyalty is measured by how many 0000's there are on your paycheck and the teammates you currently share a locker room with at that time.

 

[jah]

Lmao

 

[PatsDeb]

Well, there goes our chances of signing Weddle, ever.

 

[oldrover]

Weddle played for the Chargers for nine years.

Last year, while he was on the Ravens, the Ravens played the Chargers... twice.

I wonder if he shared info about the Chargers with Harbaugh?

 

[catent]

Yeesh. That's lame, and if I was in the meeting room with him I'd be pissed.

If you're unwilling to do your job (which is to put your current team in the best position to succeed) I'd send him home for the week.

 

[maust]

 

[Clonamery]

Another player with too many concussions.

 

[BelichicksHoodie]

Seems dumb to be honest. They cut him. LA is paying his salary now, why would you not want to help your current team?

 

[Vindicate]

Lmao. I'd be so pissed if I were the Rams. Like, yeah, it probably won't change the game by any means, but... The principle of it is what would irk me, lol.

 

[Vatahala]

Weddle could have come up with another blueprint on how to separate yourself from your current team.

If he's cut by LA he still receives his full salary and resigns with the Ravens and picks up another contract with the Ravens.

 

[captain insano]

Kinda ridiculous. Who pays your current paycheck?

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Rams' Eric Weddle won't share inside info on Ravens

they should cut him immediately. or bench his ass for the rest of the year.

 

[Bradybranch]

This is probably not true. I am sure he's just saying this but behind closed doors he is singing like a canary!
Also, there is probably little valuable info he has anyway. I would think the ravens have changed signs by now at least.

 

[Vindicate]

This is probably not true. I am sure he's just saying this but behind closed doors he is singing like a canary!
Also, there is probably little valuable info he has anyway. I would think the ravens have changed signs by now at least.

I thought this for a moment as well. Would make sense.

 

[Triumph]

Original Gangsta

 

[fnordcircle]

Meh, I can respect this.

If I left my current job for another one I wouldn't immediately start trying to sell out my former coworkers by telling my new job how we would make our chickie nugs.

 

[IllegalContact]

what an idiot

 

[Joker]

Widdle Weddle wobbles but he won't fall down!