Kreutz calling it a career

Chewie · Post #1 » by **Chewie** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:06 pm

Per Rotoworld :

http://rotoworld.com/player/nfl/2458/olin-kreutz

"Veteran C Olin Kreutz is walking away from the Saints because "he no longer feels passion and doesn't want to just collect paycheck," according to his agent."

Wow - that's a big deal walking away from a contender. I wonder if it was really his choice or if the Saints were going to push him out and let him announce it as his own decision?

Post #2 » by **emperorjones** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:39 pm

More like he realizes he no longer has the ability. The Saints & fans have not been happy. Of course somehow the local media is going to somehow spin this as a negative to the Bears, but the reality is it makes his demands this summer look outrageous.

NZB2323 · Post #3 » by **NZB2323** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:22 pm

We look like idiots for not giving him his big contract.

Chewie · Post #4 » by **Chewie** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:38 pm

Well we DID offer him a big payday but he let his pride get in the way and took less to play with the Saints. I have no doubt he'd still be playing if he took the Bears' original offer (probably to the detriment of Cutler).

BIGGIEsmalls 23 · Post #5 » by **BIGGIEsmalls 23** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:44 pm

I love Olin, but as I & others in this forum have said, his skills have been on the decline for three seasons. It's time to call it a career. I wish he would have realized this before the season, so that he could have went out while wearing only one jersey for his entire career.

WEFFPIM · Post #6 » by **WEFFPIM** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:16 pm

It wasn't not resigning him that bugged me so much, it's the way it was handled.

Post #7 » by **emperorjones** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:43 pm

The way he handled resigning is horrible. Especially now that word is out that the Saints had decided that he was riding the bench because they liked a journeyman backup over him. This really makes him look like more of a child then he looked leaving the Bears.

I had grown not to like home the last few years when I started believing his locker room "chemistry" was really more like a childish Phil Jackson "us against management" take. This just puts me more in the "childish" camp

***update** listening to Sunday night football and they are stating that Saints personnel are saying that Kruetz quit because he was upset they were going to bench him. WEAK! What a way to end your career. Quitting a championship contending team because you aren't starting? Imagine the heat Cedric Benson or Roy Williams would be getting for a move like that? The media is bending over backwards to make him out to be "understood"