Jordan Gross: Does he want to get off the bus now?

It has come to my attention and I have found several mistakes in some of my previous posts. Little mistakes that get overlooked in putting all the pieces together of a post when I have a lot of ideas and try to crunch them down to efficient statements. I should fucking proofread better in the future.

But on to the topic at hand. NFL fans, you know what's coming. It's that miserable time of the year between the Superbowl and the NFL Combine (who gives a shit about the probowl) where nothing real interesting happens, and the highlight of the football column is which Schmo got extended or re-signed.

Panthers GM Marty Hurney, who oversees all of the personnel contract relations, is currently in negotiations with Jordan Gross and his agent (who that is I have no fucking clue). Mind you, Gross' returning to the team long-term has been pending since even last year, when he rejected a contract clause, which would've made him a free agent in 2008 had the Panthers not franchised him. -----Since all the way back then he didn't know if he wanted to stay here, and a year and a half later we're still in that fucking level.


What could be going through Gross' mind? Could it be a change of scenery attracting him?? Could it be the prospect of working with new people? Could it be the prospect of working with a team that actually wants to improve at certain weak positions and who's coach isn't a stubborn fucking mule? (I won't divulge) Could it be that he was looking forward to re-signing when Fox was on the gravy train with biscuit wheels and doing good, you know, before that whole wreck on January 10?

We know we're going to lose our franchise DE. Peppers feels like getting exhausted and caught out of position routinely as a 3-4 OLB and missing tackles and playing sloppy because he doesn't have the energy or coordination required or to pass rush one play, drop in coverage the next, and repeat the process. .....and now we don't know if we're going to lose our franchise Left Tackle in Gross.

So in the 2009 Panthers offseason, so far, our entire defensive staff went to other cities, some of them even for a demotion. Our star DE wants out and last year we traded a disgruntled defensive tackle in Jenkins to the Jets for a 3rd and a 5th, and I don't think we got value out of that trade player-wise. If Gross decides to leave now, Hurney might as well drink a bottle of Listerine and call it a life.