Ahman Deserved Better

[BF4MVP]

Best of luck, Ahman! Thanks for everything! We'll be seein ya again a few years down the road..at your Packer Hall of Fame induction ceremony..

[MadtownPacker]

Just heard all this about an hour ago. Damn, this is a major bummer. I aint losing faith in TT but man, this is Ahman. He should have stayed. If I was a chica I might be crying about now.

[imscott72]

Its funny how everyone wanted 33 year old Al Harris to get a pay raise, but now people claim that Green is on the down side of his career and doesn't desvere it. So Al Harris is not on the downside of his career?

I wanted green back but its a lot different... Harris is a cb, they don't get banged up at all compared to a rb... RB's tend to get jacked up a lot, picking up blitz packages, and getting hit a ton while they try to run...

Not really, when your 33 its doesnt what position you play your on the downside of your career.

Wrong. QB's can play into their 40's. RB's no chance in hell. Way too much pounding. Corner's last long than RB's as well.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I'll miss him running over defenders on one drive. Then, the next drive outrunning everybody and taking it to the house. Then, he non-chalantly hands the ball to the ref. Then, after the game him giving all the credit to his OL. Not many RBs seem as ego-free as Batman. (I know he had ego, but he seemed to be much more team-oriented than most of the prima donnas at RB.)

[MadtownPacker]

Im gonna miss knowing 3rd & 1 is a sure thing.

[pbmax]

I'm going to miss him, but this loyalty thing is getting out of hand. The single dumbest thing a team can do is pay for what a player has done in the past. You've got to pay for the future.

As for players, I have no complaint that they are looking to maximize the few years they have to make big dollars.

We'll miss him, but this is hardly an existential crisis.

[SD GB fan]

im gonna miss him too. i agree with the gist of the article but the reality is that this is the NFL. one could eqaully argue that green walked out of green bay for an extra million bucks.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Actually, it sounds like he walked away because of an extra $6-8M bucks. That's a big difference. Green Bay was said to offer $3.5-4M/year. He got $5.5-5.75M/year. I don't think the buck can be passed to Ahman. He really did sound like he wanted to stay in Green Bay, but who the heck is going to turn down several million dollars?

[SD GB fan]

Actually, it sounds like he walked away because of an extra $6-8M bucks. That's a big difference. Green Bay was said to offer $3.5-4M/year. He got $5.5-5.75M/year. I don't think the buck can be passed to Ahman. He really did sound like he wanted to stay in Green Bay, but who the heck is going to turn down several million dollars?

sorry for being vague, but i meant an extra million per year. also, i admit i didnt know the details of the deals. what i said before, i just meant that the loyalty claimed in the article can be disputed, which is why GMs dont pay players based on the past but on the future. but i hope he does well in texas, despite the odds.

[CaliforniaCheez]

He'll be at a Fan Fest before the contract is complete because it will be terminated by the Texans.

He got a nice retirement check and will have a happy life. He never wronged the Packers and fans will always think of him as a Packer.

[Patler]

Interesting! Vandermause' column has been re-title to:

"Packers are going to miss Green".

Much better, and more accurate, in my opinion. The article still includes the "Green deserved better" line in it, but the title has changed.

[MJZiggy]

That is interesting. I wonder how much grief they caught for that headline and from whom?

[digitaldean]

That is interesting. I wonder how much grief they caught for that headline and from whom?

It's like a lot of reporting these days. It's more editorializing than reporting.

[Fritz]

I'm not sure how anyone could perceive that Green got screwed. He got himself a nice contract, and his former team had offered him a solid contract - it's not like TT just said Green sucked and had no use for him. He said he wanted Green back, but the price ended up being too high.

Green's a happy guy - he got lots of money, the big contract he desired. It wasn't from GB, but it's TT's prerogative to decide how much to offer. So how did Green deserve better?

[motife]

They lowballed Ahman with $2.75 million in 2006 and he gained over 1000 yards.

I don't think it would have killed the Packers, considering the bargain they got the previous year, to give him $8 million in guaranteed money in 2007.

On the other hand, he's not the "baby bull" that Favre called him anymore. I didn't have the super confident feeling about Ahman I used to have, anyway.

He better get his anti-sweat stuff and asthma medicine ready in Houston though, at least the first few games.