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Bengals Brown Calling Palmer's Bluff

playerpress.com Written by playerpress.com, Tuesday July 26 2011
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Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown is calling Carson Palmer’s bluff as he said that the team will not trade or release the veteran quarterback regardless of the fact that he has threatened to retire if he is not traded or released.

 

Brown is going to play hardball with Palmer even though he does not expect him to be in a Bengals uniform this season. In other words, Brown feels that if his team does not have Palmer behind center, he is not going to allow another team that pleasure.

 

“Carson signed a contract, he made a commitment. He gave us his word. We relied on his word and his commitment. We expected him to perform here. If he is going to walk away from his commitment we aren’t going to reward him for doing it,” Brown said.

 

Palmer has four years left on his current contract with the Bengals but made it known in January that he does not want to play with the team anymore and wants to be traded or released or he will retire.

 

It sounds as if Brown has no qualms about forcing Palmer into retirement this season.

 

Brown’s stubbornness could hurt the team big time this season as Jordan Palmer, Carson’s younger brother, is the only experienced quarterback on the roster. Andy Dalton, drafted in the second round out of TCU by the Bengals back in April, is expected to be the starter going into camp.

 

Brown could easily pick up some draft picks or even a replacement for Palmer if he were to trade him, but his refusal to do so just to prove a point and bolster his ultra masculine superiority is just plain childish.  


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