(09-28-2021, 09:21 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote: If a player has been injured for 5 of his 6 seasons, I could understand the availability argument.  To declare a player worthless and trade him for peanuts because of injuries when he's only been in the league 1 year and 3 games is ridiculous.  Again, I ask, if Etienne gets a minor injury early next season, are you advocating trading him for peanuts too?  Injuries happen.

As for Henderson's head not being in the game, a good coach would find a way to get his head into the game.  Even if not, you wait until he gets his head together.  We'll never be a good team if we keep trading away talent for peanuts.

To answer your hyperbole, no, I wouldn't trade Etienne away solely because of injury. I wouldn't have and didn't say the only reason Henderson was traded was due to injury.

If Etienne pulls a CJ/Jalen/Yannick and basically says poop on yous guys I ain't playin, you darn right I send his hiney packing too.

So if you spend the next two seasons trying to get CJ's head straight, or his desire to play on a perennial loser, or his enjoyment of the game back, and it never works, what have you gained? What have you missed out on, both in trade capital and time you could have been focusing on the guys that are actually pushing to improve and form this team's future?

If this were a sprained ankle or bum shoulder, sure. Take some time. See if you can recover and get back to form. That's not what was at play here and we all know it. Don't play dumb.

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(09-28-2021, 09:33 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(09-27-2021, 10:06 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Listening to Rick Balou today, said he spent a lot of Sunday’s games watching Henderson on the sidelines. According to him, Henderson was in his own world and had no interest in engaging the team. If the man doesn’t want to be here, then not only will he not contribute, but he would be a distraction. I agree, this is a good thing. We offloaded some baggage today. Albeit it was high-priced baggage, it was baggage nonetheless.

That is something this team should have noticed before we drafted him, so we didn't waste a pick. We could've had Tristan Wirfs instead, and filled a real need with a great player. This team just failed at vetting players.

You and I both know that based on Dave's history he'd have simply taken the next CB on his board if CJ was dinged for personality traits.

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