Titans RB Brown will report to camp

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Titans RB Brown will report to camp

Associated Press

7/24/2006

 

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Titans running back Chris Brown will be in training camp on time for Tennessee, despite asking for a trade, one of his agents said Monday.

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If he would just get out there and do his job, he has nothing to worry about. Not very often I see a veteran scared of a rookie - or is he scared of Travis Henry? Chris Brown is good, I wonder why he's so nervous?

[t.j 35]

If he would just get out there and do his job, he has nothing to worry about. Not very often I see a veteran scared of a rookie - or is he scared of Travis Henry? Chris Brown is good, I wonder why he's so nervous?

 

My best guess is that this is about Denver. I think he sees a job opportunity there and wants to get it now rather than wait a year. By the time Brown is a free agent in February, who knows what the Denver RB situation will look like.

[Steel City Blues 0]

If he would just get out there and do his job, he has nothing to worry about. Not very often I see a veteran scared of a rookie - or is he scared of Travis Henry? Chris Brown is good, I wonder why he's so nervous?

 

Brown is going out there & doing his job. He is reporting to camp and hasn't threatened the team in any way.

 

A few reasons he asked for a trade:

 

Before the draft, the Titans made a lowball 3 year offer that would easily allow the team to cut Brown & way under pay him if he does well.

White, the coach's pet RB was drafted in round 2.

"The writing is on the wall" regarding the direction the team wants to go in the future.

Brown wants to get a trade done now (before/early camp) because there is probably an opportunity to star on a team like Denver.

 

Brown isn't as worried about losing his job this season based on ability vs. White. It's the circumstances around the whole situation. (Contract, coach/player relationship from college, possible opportunity to go home to Colorado and become the starter in an offense that suits his ability to a T) He probably asked his agent to see what he could do to help nudge the Titans into considering a trade without looking like the bad guy.

 

 

Brown is telling the team, if you don't want me, let me go to a team that does. I firmly believe Brown wanted to sign a decent long term contract, but the Titans are basically saying we think you are valuable, but don't want to pay you.

 

It's Tennessee that has to sh!t or get off the pot, not Brown.

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I agree with everything Steel City Blues said except his final statement. Tennessee doesn't have to do anything. He's under contract, he's valuable to them this year (especially at his current salary cap hit), they'll squeeze one last year out of him and then let him go.

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I agree with everything Steel City Blues said except his final statement. Tennessee doesn't have to do anything. He's under contract, he's valuable to them this year (especially at his current salary cap hit), they'll squeeze one last year out of him and then let him go.

 

You are right t.j I think I worded that wrong.

 

I meant about making a trade or not. If the Titans wait until after the season starts, a trade option is practically dead.

 

 

Frankly, I expect the Titans to keep Brown in the fold this year. Problem is, they will lose him at the end of the season without compensation. If they want some value for Brown, they should make a move now.

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to Brown for showing up to camp.

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This was in the Nashville City Paper this morning

 

STAYING PUT: Chris Brown’s trade request last week apparently fell on deaf ears where the Titans are concerned.

 

“Chris is one of ours,” Reese said of the running back, who is in the final year of his contract. “I haven’t talked to anyone about trading him.”

 

Brown’s agents Ryan Morgan and Wynn Silberman had been trying to pry Brown free in a trade, rather than have him be part of Tennessee’s three-pronged attack with White and Travis Henry.

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to Brown for showing up to camp.

 

Exactly. I have so much more respect for a player who gripes about their situation and shows up and does their job anyway. Why don't players get that the fans don't want to put up with their BS?

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In a related note, Brown suffered a shoulder stinger while picking up the phone to inform his agent that he'd be reporting.

He's officially doubtful for week one.