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This is what Pro Football Talk wrote about Ted Ginn this morning:
Among our favorite kinds of football players, right up there with the ones who overcome long odds or do inspirational things, we have a soft spot for those with a little self-awareness.
So it was a great relief to hear one of them admit that yes, in fact, it was about the money.
According to Bill Voth of Black and Blue Review, Panthers wideout Ted Ginn admitting that leaving for Arizona last year was about nothing more than “going out and chasing a check.”
Ginn appeared to have hit free agency at the right time, after catching five touchdown passes (one short of what he had done the six previous years) for the Panthers in 2013 while working on a one-year deal. So when the Cardinals gave him a three-year, $9.75 million contract, he had to go.
“You only have a short window in this league, so you just gotta go and do what’s good for your family,” Ginn said. “At the end of the day, I don’t think going out there was best for my family. I think being here was the best thing for me. It’s only a short window to go out and get what you can get, so I just praise God that they had their hands open for me to be able to return. Now that I’m here I have to put all that I can do in, and show what I have on and off the field to be a Panther.”
When the Cardinals got tired of him after a year (he caught 14 balls and made minimal impact, other than a playoff fumble), the Panthers were happy to bring him back. For whatever reason, he looks like an NFL wide receiver when he’s with them, as he’s made numerous deep play connections with Cam Newton already in camp.
So while he doesn’t regret trying to capitalize on his good season, he’s also aware that the Panthers seem to work for him.
“No, not at all,” he said. “Like I said, you gotta do what you do for your family. The best thing about the whole situation is coming back somewhere where somebody likes you.”
And with the way Ginn’s career has gone, finding that place has been tough, so he’s hanging on now.
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Commentary:
There are few things to fault BA&SK for---but Ginn heads the list. It is not so much for signing him---if you watched Ginn in Carolina the year before (in a contract year), he was good, not only as a return man but as a #3-#4 WR.
But---when you watched him play for the Cardinals, it was very clear his heart wasn't into it---which was so odd considering how well the Cardinals were doing---even when the team was 10-1, atop the NFL, Ginn was looking like he wanted no part of returning kicks.
Where BA can be faulted? It was sticking with Ginn.
By Week 12 many of us had had it with Ginn---it was plain to see that he was awful. His effort was pitiful. Nada. Nil. Zero.
Late in the year the team did bring up Brittan Golden, so he was an option as return man. For the big games late in the year and in the playoff game they could have used Patrick Peterson as the punt returner...but sticking with Ginn cost the team immensely when with 5:23 left in the 3rd quarter with the Cardinals only down 20-14, Ginn decides to return a kickoff from the back line of the end zone and winds up fumbling on the 10 yard line---and---it was a gift fumble---as Ginn did nothing to protect the ball, the absolute no-no in that situation.
The way Cam Newton was struggling---if the Cardinals had been able to keep that game close, who knows what could have happened.
Ted Ginn gift wraps the fumble to his old team---the Cardinals release him this off-season---he re-signs with his old team---and now he says he signed with the Cardinals just to chase a paycheck?
Pitiful.
Credit BA&SK, however, for getting rid of him and separating the contenders from the pretenders.
Among our favorite kinds of football players, right up there with the ones who overcome long odds or do inspirational things, we have a soft spot for those with a little self-awareness.
So it was a great relief to hear one of them admit that yes, in fact, it was about the money.
According to Bill Voth of Black and Blue Review, Panthers wideout Ted Ginn admitting that leaving for Arizona last year was about nothing more than “going out and chasing a check.”
Ginn appeared to have hit free agency at the right time, after catching five touchdown passes (one short of what he had done the six previous years) for the Panthers in 2013 while working on a one-year deal. So when the Cardinals gave him a three-year, $9.75 million contract, he had to go.
“You only have a short window in this league, so you just gotta go and do what’s good for your family,” Ginn said. “At the end of the day, I don’t think going out there was best for my family. I think being here was the best thing for me. It’s only a short window to go out and get what you can get, so I just praise God that they had their hands open for me to be able to return. Now that I’m here I have to put all that I can do in, and show what I have on and off the field to be a Panther.”
When the Cardinals got tired of him after a year (he caught 14 balls and made minimal impact, other than a playoff fumble), the Panthers were happy to bring him back. For whatever reason, he looks like an NFL wide receiver when he’s with them, as he’s made numerous deep play connections with Cam Newton already in camp.
So while he doesn’t regret trying to capitalize on his good season, he’s also aware that the Panthers seem to work for him.
“No, not at all,” he said. “Like I said, you gotta do what you do for your family. The best thing about the whole situation is coming back somewhere where somebody likes you.”
And with the way Ginn’s career has gone, finding that place has been tough, so he’s hanging on now.
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Commentary:
There are few things to fault BA&SK for---but Ginn heads the list. It is not so much for signing him---if you watched Ginn in Carolina the year before (in a contract year), he was good, not only as a return man but as a #3-#4 WR.
But---when you watched him play for the Cardinals, it was very clear his heart wasn't into it---which was so odd considering how well the Cardinals were doing---even when the team was 10-1, atop the NFL, Ginn was looking like he wanted no part of returning kicks.
Where BA can be faulted? It was sticking with Ginn.
By Week 12 many of us had had it with Ginn---it was plain to see that he was awful. His effort was pitiful. Nada. Nil. Zero.
Late in the year the team did bring up Brittan Golden, so he was an option as return man. For the big games late in the year and in the playoff game they could have used Patrick Peterson as the punt returner...but sticking with Ginn cost the team immensely when with 5:23 left in the 3rd quarter with the Cardinals only down 20-14, Ginn decides to return a kickoff from the back line of the end zone and winds up fumbling on the 10 yard line---and---it was a gift fumble---as Ginn did nothing to protect the ball, the absolute no-no in that situation.
The way Cam Newton was struggling---if the Cardinals had been able to keep that game close, who knows what could have happened.
Ted Ginn gift wraps the fumble to his old team---the Cardinals release him this off-season---he re-signs with his old team---and now he says he signed with the Cardinals just to chase a paycheck?
Pitiful.
Credit BA&SK, however, for getting rid of him and separating the contenders from the pretenders.
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