********.How much freaking trouble would it have been for the same guy who drafted him a year before to make a simple freaking phone call?Chickenshit move.I don't blame him for being a bit pissed.How many other 1st round picks did SK bail on after only 1 year because he was fascinated by the shiny new toyin the window?SK has given Nkemdiche 4 damn years.Cooper got several years.Chickenshit handling by SK.
You're missing the point. He has every right to be privately upset, and what Keim did is exactly as you describe it.
Nevertheless, it's a private matter, and he just made it public.
The guy who has had questions right/wrong about just this sort of stuff.
He had a great going away video that soothed over the media and put humpty dumpty partially back together again. When it comes to anything about the Cards from now until he plays them next it should be two things. Good memories or no comment. Anything else is only a disservice to himself.
It doesn't matter if he said good stuff for 10 minutes or 10 hours about the Cardinals, it's the 10 seconds of bad that will be remembered and set the tone and be repeated.
I'm simply saying, it's not a good look for him, and it reinforces the previous narrative about him. He did wrong by himself and reinforced the negative narrative. Each time he does this, it cements it further and further.
I wish him well, but thinking ahead, if he doesn't make it on the Dolphins, stuff like this will give GM's pause on whether or not the juice is worth the squeeze. Especially if he takes a shot at the Dolphins on the way out or not beating out Fitzpatrick.
This situation may end up being neutral to his career, but stuff like this, can be detrimental. He simply shouldn't engage in it for his own sake. Nothing positive will come from this. Only neutral or negative.
