Shaun Rogers Wanting Out of Cleveland: Fact or Fiction?

I am skeptical of this story. It doesn’t make any sense for the team to even trade Rogers because of cap repercussions. My prediction is Shaun is happy and playing with the Browns next season

Rogers straight up for Johnson is a joke of a trade. It would take at least a 1st and a 2nd to get Rogers from me.

I am not against drafting Raji, but it seems like we could get him lower than 5th.

is this a joke? b/c i’m lauging.

Yeah, why are people on this blog all over #92? If it’s true, it sounds like Mangini is the idiot here.

Does Rogers want a “kiss hello” from Mangini?

take a valium, bernie. you’re jumping to an awful lot of conclusions here. i can’t imagine that mangina would deliberately piss rogers off.

I don’t know. The report says that Rogers wanted a sit-down meeting with Mangini and Mangini turned him down, saying he’ll talk to players at the March mini-camp. Rogers doesn’t seem like the idiot to me. Jim Donovan said last night on WKYC news that Mangini hasn’t really talked to any of the players. Why not? I mean, sure, maybe not every player. But there is absolutely no reason why he shouldn’t be talking to at least the leaders and best players. How much time does it take to talk to Cribbs, Rogers, Edwards, Thomas, Steinbach, etc.? Just give them a call, say that you know its a difficult time with a new coach and everything, but that you are still a big part of the future with this team. I had doubts about Mangini before, and they are growing quickly.

Are you kidding me — Larry Johnson and a 3rd for Rogers?!? No way, Johnson has nothing left. We already have one washed-up RB, why do we need another one?

We do not need to trade Shaun Rogers. I think this whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Let those guys sit down and talk it over. I certainly hope Mangini has been reaching out to Rogers and trying to straighten things up with him. I’ve heard many Jets players say good things about him after he was let go there so he can’t be as bad of a guy as some people here are making him out to be. Rogers needs to shut up and play football, not whine about somebody not saying hello to him. This isn’t junior high school.

I just can’t get up some sympathy for someone’s feelings like this. Even if Mangini intentionally neglected him, I still don’t feel bad for Rogers. Who here really thinks Mangini’s neglect was intentional? It’s a huge melodrama

Count me in this camp.

The new regime has only one legitimate player (read: star) on defense that you NEED to make sure is happy and you avoid him. The story about the snubs were many weeks ago. I realize Rogers should “quit being a baby” or whatever, but as a new boss, you have to make sure your primetime guys are cool with you.

Rant aside, it’s obviously time to review our options. Draft Raji (sp?) and trade Rogers despite the contract hit? Challenge him to play a la Chad Johnson?

it just all reeks of such legendary amateurism on all sides…it’s more saddening than anything. you figure that players are children in many cases, but this is a complaint? the new coach hasn’t been nice enough to me yet? given that primetime players often have the capability to be mental midgets, though, you’d hope that someone, somewhere in the organization has the good sense to try to neutralize these instances. not by coddling, but just through common sense. clearly, our coach is not exhibiting that common sense so far. awesome.

if we win, all is forgiven. let’s see if Mangina can get them to buy into his X’s and O’s…before we jump ship, anyways. passing judgment as to whether or not he’s a dick, well, he’s made that easy.

Mangini is such a 12 year old girl that he couldn’t judge a player objectively after a 10 minute phone call with another player? Even if the call is specifically requested by the only superstar on the team…