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Friday, April 2, 2010
Shaun Rogers should just go away
As the news broke about defensive tackle Shaun Rogers on Thursday, one name kept occurring to me.
Phil Savage.
The former Browns general manager acquired Rogers before the 2008 season from the Detroit Lions, who couldn’t wait to dump him on the first unsuspecting dupes that came along — because he was more trouble than he was worth.
Sure, Rogers played fairly well the past couple of seasons for miserable Browns teams, but now he’s in trouble after getting arrested for CARRYING A LOADED GUN in his luggage AT AN AIRPORT.
Love to know what this guy scored on the Wonderlic. Love to know.
I’m trying to decide which would speak less of Rogers’ intelligence — that he thought he could get the gun through security (maybe he has in the past, who knows) or that he thought it was perfectly legal in today’s world to pack heat on a plane.
Either way, what a dope.
And that brings me back to Savage because it’s not looking good for some of the prominent players he trumpeted and/or acquired in the year or so leading up to his firing.
In addition to Rogers, who should be sent away at the earliest opportunity, consider the quarterbacks.
Savage traded up into the first round to draft Brady Quinn in 2007. Now, I don’t think Quinn got a fair shot in Cleveland, but opinion was divided on him entering the draft and the critics are looking fairly smart right about now as he heads to Denver to back up the immortal Kyle Orton.
Then there’s JaMarcus Russell, the quarterback Savage would have drafted had he been available to the Browns that year.
Oh how comical it was — and it’s even funnier in retrospect — when Savage (who apparently knew him from a camp years ago) launched into a weepy diatribe about how the predraft criticisms of Russell’s work ethic and attitude were baseless and unfounded.
Of course, as we all know, those criticisms turned out to be deadly accurate and now the Raiders, who picked Russell No. 1 overall that year, are likely to cut him if they acquire Donovan McNabb from the Eagles.
And that’s what the Browns should do with Rogers, by the way, no matter what his excuse turns out to be.
