Let me get this straight. At 35 years of age, Isaac Bruce is too old to keep around, and Rams coaches like Scott Linehan and Al Saunders won't fight very hard to keep him on the team.
But these same people are hot after THIRTY-EIGHT-year-old Trent Green? A guy, who, the next time he gets hit, is going to get up thinking he's Batman? I pass completely on this idea. It's a stupid idea. Health-wise, talent-wise and age-wise, there are MANY better options out there.
Don't get me wrong, I like Trent Green. I like him enough to wish he would retire while he can still remember his kids' names, the way to drive home or how to feed himself. He has taken way too much damage TO HIS BRAIN the last two seasons for it to be smart to continue to play. Whether Green goes into broadcasting, coaching/teaching, starts his own business, plays golf or just sits around the house all day watching NFL Network, all are better choices for the rest of his life than it is to risk the health OF HIS BRAIN by sticking around too long as an NFL QB.
By encouraging him to play by actively courting him, the Rams are complicit in any career-ending or quality-of-life-threatening injury inflicted on Trent here, moreso than with any other player because Green's concussion history is obvious, and an obvious reason for him to stay the hell off the field. If Green rejoins the Rams, and takes another blow to the head, it'll be a far dumber, far less necessary mistake even than the Rams made by cutting Isaac Bruce. And it would be tragic idiocy from an organization that has already gone through it with Chris Miller, and to lesser extents, Kurt Warner and Marc Bulger.
There are lots of options for the Rams at backup QB. Trent Green shouldn't be one of them.
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