Three Chargers with Pro Bowl experience – restricted free agents Marcus McNeill, Vincent Jackson and outside linebacker Shawne Merriman – have stayed away from offseason activities while declining to sign the tenders offered by the team. Of the three, only Merriman seems likely to report to training camp later this month, not that he's a happy camper. "You can throw me in the same situation [as Jackson and McNeill]," Merriman said Monday. "I've been on the trading block the last year and a half, and I'm tired of hearing it. I was on the trading block Week 3 last year, 11 and a half months after full knee reconstruction. I'm sitting there like, 'Huh? What did I do to deserve this?' I feel personally [A.J. and I] have good communication. Everybody knows, and I've put that out there, that I want to be there. But my thing is, I want to play football and not worry about, 'Is this gonna happen?' and not turn around and hear my name on the trading block every five minutes. I mean, who wants to do that? Who wants to come to work everyday and have teammates asking if you're gonna be there?" Merriman is counting on a time-honored axiom – that players typically showed a marked improvement their second season back from severe knee injuries – as he pushes for a lucrative deal in San Diego or elsewhere. Source: Yahoo! Sports
Sucks to be treated like a regular person, worrying about whether you will have a job or not, doesn't it. Luckily your only current concern is where you will be playing not if.
I wonder what AJ is thinking....losing 3 of your best players isn't going to be a good thing for that team!!
