Oakland Raiders quarterback Jason Campbell was recovering from surgery to his collarbone early this week as the wheels began to turn on the Carson Palmer trade, a deal that installed Campbell's possible replacement only six games into the second season of what he had considered a "fresh start" to his career. Campbell, speaking to Bay Area radio station 95.7 FM The Game on Friday, said he was kept out of the loop as the trade was conceived and proposed and didn't discuss it with Raiders coach Hue Jackson before it was completed Tuesday. "On Sunday night I had some pain pills for my shoulder, so I was pretty much sleeping all night Sunday," Campbell said. "And then Monday I had my surgery, so I was pretty much out of it then. And then the day after that I didn't really watch TV or anything so I still didn't know what had happened." Campbell said he was watching TV with his fiancee when the Raiders' news conference to announce the trade was aired, with Palmer sitting alongside Jackson. "I was halfway still on pain medicine," Campbell said. "It was kind of a moment of silence. My fiancee looked at me to see if I was gonna say something. There's different things that go through your mind but you don't want to fill your mind with those thoughts." Palmer had traveled to Oakland, and on Tuesday morning he underwent a physical before the Raiders officially acquired him that afternoon from the Cincinnati Bengals. "I started receiving these text messages and everything about, you know, 'Hey what's going on?' and 'There's been a trade' and everything, and 'They've just given up a first round,' " Campbell said of the Bengals' compensation in the deal, which will come during the 2012 draft. Campbell said he wants to stay positive and supportive of his new teammate and get healthy enough to play as soon as possible, though he was expected to miss the rest of the season. "As a player in this league, you can't worry about the things that go on from a business side of it, the political side of it," Campbell said. "You know what you're worth, you know what you've done to help the franchise you've got here, put us in the position we're in now." Source: ESPN
Yeah too often the "business" of football hurts the love of the game for me... They use words like family and team; love and compassion yet every year there are multiple things that destroys those words and takes some of the strength away from them.
Campbell has gotten a raw deal everywhere he has been. So many changes to the system in Washington and all the complaints that go with the growing pains of that, now this.
I am not surprised at all actually. Never thought he would make it in the NFL. Just had the typical one good year and was drafted on potential. Potential will get coaches fired every time. Raiders are on a roll and this trade makes a lot of sense. Campbell is hurt and should take this in stride. He is gone, that is for sure. But he will catch on somewhere else. I mean, really, who would you rather have? Palmer or Campbell? Not question. Palmer.
never was impressed with him even when he was at auburn. he has the size the nfl likes. he would be a decent backup I guess.
