[More Cowbell]

I would be upset to if I were on a team that refused to improve themselves. He has the right to want to not play for a team. Remember this is his job, his career, he can want to or work for whoever he wants. I not that not everybody is still at their first job. Things change at our work and we get unhappy and quit why should he be so different. He is human. Maybe a championship is more important than fan favorite for a bottom feeder.

I disagree. In my opinion he signed a contract to play for the Bengals for the next few years, and he should honor that contract. If he didn't want to play in Cincinnati, he shouldn't have signed that contract extension.

This is not the same as people like us wanting to change jobs because we're unhappy. The difference is that most regular people who work don't have a signed contract binding them to work for the same boss for a set time. We can leave the job or we can be fired, both with appropriate notice. Professional athletes instead sign multiyear contracts in order to give teams the stability they desire, and in return the athletes get a big fat paycheck. Not a bad deal.

It's funny, you hear all the time about athletes complaining that they are underpaid and wanting to break or renegotiate their contract. Would any of these guys ever offer to give back some of their pay if they have an off-year? No, because they signed the contract and expect the team to honor its end of the deal.

In all honesty, it might be better for the team to trade him anyway, because he may end up being a disruption to the rest of the team all season, and they don't need that. But part of me wishes that they refuse to let him go, if only because of the principle of the matter.