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  • fordfixer
    Legend
    • May 2008
    • 10921
    #1

    OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

    Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

    By MJD

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    Olin Kreutz walks away from the SaintsOne of the NFL's all-time great centers is walking away from the game. Olin Kreutz(notes), a six-time Pro Bowler, four-time All Pro, and member of the NFL's All-Decade Team for the 2000s, has left the Saints.

    According to his agent, Kreutz's passion for the game just wasn't there anymore. He'd rather walk away than keep getting paid, while feeling like he wasn't contributing. From Mike Triplett at the Times-Picayune:

    "He decided, 'If I can't bring that same passion every day to work, I'm not gonna just sit here and collect a paycheck,'" [agent Mark] Bartelstein said. "That's the way he is. Olin's a little different than most guys. People say all the time that it's not about the money. That's really how it is with him. It never has been."

    There are two different ways to frame this. There's the way his agent chose, which is to see Kreutz as an unselfish guy who won't take the team's money if he feels he isn't performing up to his own high standards. Given Kreutz's track record, that's probably the way I'd lean.

    But I couldn't blame someone if they saw this as Kreutz bailing on his team. "Walking away" is another way of saying "quitting," and doing that six games into a season is pretty rare. It's not like he was playing at a level that's irreplaceable or something, but before a knee injury shelved him for a couple of games, he was the starting center. He also wore the captain's C.

    Any way you want to see it, if this is indeed the end for Kreutz, in five years, he should be in Canton.

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    • RuthlessBurgher
      Legend
      • May 2008
      • 33208
      #2
      Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

      Originally posted by fordfixer
      Any way you want to see it, if this is indeed the end for Kreutz, in five years, he should be in Canton.
      My ass. If Dermontti Dawson isn't in Canton yet, then Olin Freaking Kreutz ain't getting in without a damn ticket.
      Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

      Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

      We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

      We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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        • SanAntonioSteelerFan
          Legend
          • May 2008
          • 8361
          #3
          Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

          Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
          Originally posted by fordfixer
          Any way you want to see it, if this is indeed the end for Kreutz, in five years, he should be in Canton.
          My bad word. If Dermontti Dawson isn't in Canton yet, then Olin Freaking Kreutz ain't getting in without a damn ticket.
          A-menski.


          We got our "6-PACK" - time to work on a CASE!

          HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!

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            • SteelBucks
              Legend
              • Aug 2008
              • 8075
              #4
              Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

              Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
              Originally posted by fordfixer
              Any way you want to see it, if this is indeed the end for Kreutz, in five years, he should be in Canton.
              My bad word. If Dermontti Dawson isn't in Canton yet, then Olin Freaking Kreutz ain't getting in without a damn ticket.
              IMO, this is the year for Dawson. (of course I've been saying this for the past several years)

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                • _SteeL_CurtaiN_
                  Backup
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 258
                  #5
                  Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

                  Originally posted by SanAntonioSteelerFan
                  Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
                  Originally posted by fordfixer
                  Any way you want to see it, if this is indeed the end for Kreutz, in five years, he should be in Canton.
                  My bad word. If Dermontti Dawson isn't in Canton yet, then Olin Freaking Kreutz ain't getting in without a damn ticket.
                  A-menski.
                  I second this assertion! HOF is a joke if this numbnut is in before Dirt!

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                    • Pahn711
                      Backup
                      • Jan 2010
                      • 373
                      #6
                      Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

                      Originally posted by fordfixer
                      Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

                      By MJD

                      But I couldn't blame someone if they saw this as Kreutz bailing on his team. "Walking away" is another way of saying "quitting," and doing that six games into a season is pretty rare. It's not like he was playing at a level that's irreplaceable or something, but before a knee injury shelved him for a couple of games, he was the starting center. He also wore the captain's C.
                      See I thought he was relegated to a backup role and that was a contributing factor to his decision. Being that he would have returned from injury a starter and that he was named a Captain, my opinion has changed, pretty classless move on his part. I certainly hope it negatively impacts his chances in Canton, cause it should.
                      Some people subscribe to a permanent stasis of wishful thinking. They like to believe the world is made of marshmallows and filled with butterflies. I don't.

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                        • ACQB1
                          #7
                          Re: OT Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

                          Originally posted by Pahn711
                          Originally posted by fordfixer
                          Olin Kreutz walks away from the Saints

                          By MJD

                          But I couldn't blame someone if they saw this as Kreutz bailing on his team. "Walking away" is another way of saying "quitting," and doing that six games into a season is pretty rare. It's not like he was playing at a level that's irreplaceable or something, but before a knee injury shelved him for a couple of games, he was the starting center. He also wore the captain's C.
                          See I thought he was relegated to a backup role and that was a contributing factor to his decision. Being that he would have returned from injury a starter and that he was named a Captain, my opinion has changed, pretty classless move on his part. I certainly hope it negatively impacts his chances in Canton, cause it should.
                          Agreed. He quit on his team and there is no other way to look at this. He obviously wanted to stay in Chicago and only signed with the Saints because he had no other options -- now to leave them high and dry like this is a pretty low thing to do.

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