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01-11-2012, 03:35 PM #13
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Re: What The Ravens Tolds McGahee
I just can't see this staff doing that, unless it's a standard NFL procedure. John Harbaugh is not a guy that would belittle you. He's not a player's coach, but he's also not vindictive. You think he gave CMac a letter? And you really could argue CMac deserved one more than McGahee.
McGahee was never released before. I'm betting when you get released, it's like when you get fired from a job. You have to give a plausible reason why. On that front though, why not just say "Could not afford salary"? I can see "Salary does not match with performance" irking McGahee enough that he would report it as "Unable to perform duties to abilities of other running backs"..
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01-11-2012, 03:37 PM #14
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Whatever. It sounds like a procedural thing. They terminated him and they listed a cause. I don't expect anyone who just got fired to be happy about it.
Would Willis have been happier if they just put your overpaid as the cause? Probably not because of course he thought he was worth that money.
Doesn't seem like anything classless. Just seems like a lazy player trying to find something to motivate himself.
This irks me. This is a business. Real world people don't get coddled when they get fired. They get told the truth.
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01-11-2012, 03:40 PM #15Regular 1st Stringer
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It should of said." Sorry not paying you millions to run the ball 5 time a game" We can use that money on Evans. Ooooops
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01-11-2012, 03:44 PM #16Veteran Poster
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LOL it is so funny that anyone thinks this is anything more than procedure.
Yeah Harbaugh is going to go out of his way to write a letter to make a guy who isn't coming back look bad.
Are you fucking serious? Get a clue.
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01-11-2012, 03:48 PM #17Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Man, I hope that's not true, because it's utterly classless--& no one knows how classless better than one N. I. Lobachevsky:
Once upon a lonnnng time ago, I was in a PhD program at a major university, with a graduate assistantship paying tuition & (barely) enough to live on.
Mid-year, the program lost an argument with a major supporting organization & had funding for 5 assistantships pulled, effective the next academic year.
I wasn't flunking out, but I wasn't doing all that well either, so when my research advisor called me in to give me the bad news I was kind of expecting it.
What I did not expect was the reason he gave me: It is the opinion of the department that you are not intelligent enough to earn a PhD in this field.
Not a memory I wanted to revisit, but...
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Re: What The Ravens Tolds McGahee
Everyone knew McGahee was getting cut first.
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01-11-2012, 04:02 PM #22
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01-11-2012, 04:07 PM #23
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This interview is part of the reason why McGahee isn't here. I'm happy for him that he was able to break 1K yards this year and be the workhorse for his team. Lets not forget that he was constantly being quoted about how many carries was/wasn't getting. I even defended Willis at the time, but contrasting that type of behavior to Rice shows how wrong I was. Glad he took his sour grapes to the Rockies.
After 5 years of early exits, the journey is finally complete.
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Re: What The Ravens Tolds McGahee
Everything I remember was Rice and McClain saying how great a teammate he was, and reports that said he didnt care how many carries he got as long as they win. I remember him saying he wanted more carries, but not negatively and honestly id expect any player to say as much. Im sure theres more to it than what McGahee is saying here, but if its true we sent him a letter saying hes not capable "to perform duties to the abilities of other runningbacks", well that just seems a bit classless and hostile to a guy thats been good to the organization and knowingly on his way out, IMO. Not something id expect from our front office. youre not telling me if McGahee accepted the same deal williams did that he wouldnt be here instead, which would leave me to believe it was solely money for his departure and not his ability.
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