As Raiders fans wake up to the news that defensive end Khalil Mack will be traded to the Bears Henrik Lundqvist Jersey Kids , they’re not going to be happy. As Raiders players wake up to the聽news that defensive end Khalil Mack will be traded to the Bears, they’re not happy, either.
“No f–king way,” linebacker Bruce Irvin said on Twitter.
And in those three words lies the challenge the Raiders will now face in selling the decision to send the team’s best player elsewhere, simply because the Raiders wouldn’t or couldn’t give Mack the long-term deal he has earned.
Make no mistake about it. Coach Jon Gruden will have his work cut out for him as the team’s first regular season game approaches. And he ultimately may have to trade or release some of the guys who will never be able to accept that the team’s brightest star had to go elsewhere to get paid.
Isn’t that the message that’s being sent to the rest of them? No matter what you do while wearing silver and black, your financial reward may have to wait until you are wearing different colors.
Plenty of those players may be instantly craving the opportunity to wear different colors.
At a time when one failed former first-round quarterback considers whether to take a chance in Canada, another failed former first-round quarterback has embraced it.
Former Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman is trying to win a roster spot with the Montreal Alouettes.
“Someone asked me the other day Sean Monahan Jersey , ‘Dude, are you out of money? Why are you playing in the CFL?’ ” Freeman recently told Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. “I said, ‘Because I like playing football.'”
He hasn’t played much football since a once-promising career in Tampa imploded. During his fifth season with the Buccaneers, it all fell apart. He landed in Minnesota, and the Vikings thrust him into action before he was ready, resulting in only one appearance — a Monday night disaster against the Giants.
Next came an offseason stint with the Giants in 2014, followed by an offseason stint with the Dolphins in 2015. Later that year Womens Sean Couturier Jersey , he played for something called the Brooklyn Bolts in one of the many failed developmental leagues. Somehow, Freeman landed with the Colts at the conclusion of 2015, starting (and somehow winning) a Week 17 game against the Titans.
Since then, Freeman has gotten no opportunities. So he’s giving the CFL a try, primarily because he misses competing at a high level.
“I mean, you can go to the gym and, like Youth Matthew Tkachuk Jersey , play basketball as hard as you can,” Freeman explained to Stroud. “But you can’t really compete. You don’t sit and prepare all week to go kick some kid’s [butt] in basketball. What kind of loser is that?”
We may soon see what kind of loser, or winner, Freeman is in Canada, depending on whether he loses, or wins, a chance to play there.
As he gives it a try (and it’s hard not to root for anyone who is willing to take a big chance) Authentic Brock Nelson Jersey , remember this: Freeman is only 30. If he can somehow rediscover whatever it was that allowed him to pass for more than 4,000 yards in 2012, maybe he’ll eventually get to sit and prepare all week to go kick some kid’s [butt] in football.
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