All This Talk About Nothing

I was doing my best to ignore this "new development" in the Shaun Alexander situation, however that seems difficult. I thank you all for your emails, I saw the blog posts.

Look, as far as I am concerned the fact that Shaun was at Kirkland with Maurice Morris only tells me that, as fans, we cheer for a class organization. They didn't go McNair and leave him twisting. They called everyone in and laid out the plan.

What is the plan? Only the parties involved seem to know. If the team wanted to release Shaun they could work it out. It is not like he had re-constructive knee surgery. He had a bone in his wrist fixed. Does anyone think that another team can't look at an x-ray and determine if it is healing? I mean, he uses his legs primarily as a running back right. I believe two things are possibly at play.

1) The team can't release him right away because contrary to common belief, they do not want to designate him as a 6/1 cut. Thus they must re-work Trufant before they can release him. If they can't, then Shaun will get the 6/1 cut.

2) Shaun doesn't want to be unceremoniously released and then catch on as a backup somewhere. He would rather hang em' up' and the team will do it more as an announcement.

I guess a third idea would be that they are negotiating an injury settlement, but I can't imagine there being much to discuss. Shaun has no leverage. Either way, those are my thoughts on this "breaking news." Personally, I am a little worn down by the whole ordeal. I don't like issues that divide Hawk fans the way this one has.

If you are wondering why I don't just take people like Holmgren and Ruskell at their words?? While it was just a couple weeks ago that they said Shaun would be back and be a big contributer. They are under no obligation to lessen their strategic advantage by telling the fans exactly what they are planning.