It is being reported that Palmer, an eight-year veteran out of USC, requested to be traded from Cincinnati about a week ago. Here's the problem: Bengals owner Mike Brown roundly rejected the request, saying that Palmer is central to the team's plans. As flattering as that must be to Carson, there's little hope for him that the future plans of a team that just finished a season will amount to anything.
For Carson, the options are clear: get traded to another team or retire. Assuming that a 31 year-old, former Pro Bowl and playoff quarterback doesn't seriously consider retirement, here are five teams that could really benefit from acquiring him. The Vikings have not had a steady, long-time quarterback since the days of Daunte Culpepper. The team has a lot of pieces still in place from the NFC runner-up team just a year ago, and does not seem far off from contending again. The position that derailed Minnesota this year was quarterback.
Brett Favre tried, as always, to play injured, and it turned out horribly. Tarvaris Jackson and Joe Webb left much to be desired when filling in. With an offense that has weapons on the outside Percy Harvin, Sidney Rice, and Visanthe Shiancoe this team could really take off with a steady quarterback under center.
Palmer has always been a throw first, ask questions later guy like Favre, but could easily be the piece that completes the puzzle in Minny. Plus, having Adrian Peterson to keep the pressure off Palmer could do wonders for his turnover happy ways.
He never had a serious running back threat like AP behind him, so defenses always keyed on the pass against the Bengals. That would not be the case if he came to the Vikings. The 49ers were the trendy NFC West pick heading into the season and disappointed everyone with a truly awful performance. There was talent at every skill position, the line wasn't bad, and the defense one of the best. What really dragged this team under was the play of its quarterbacks. Though Palmer doesn't fit the mold of the West Coast offense, it wouldn't matter to new head coach Jim Harbaugh.
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With his wife out of town recently, a rare occurrence, Palmer handled solo parenting duties and finished the day by taking his children to dinner at the Pioneer Saloon, a Ketchum institution. Twenty minutes into the meal, a man at the next table did a triple-take, went away for a few minutes and reappeared with a bottle of wine as a gift for Palmer.
It turned out the man was a fellow USC graduate, ecstatic to be sharing the same restaurant as the quarterback who launched the Pete Carroll era. The Palmers have yet to decide how long they might stay in Ketchum. They love the town and the one school all their children attend. Both parents grew up playing ball sports — Shaelyn was a soccer player at USC — but those are an afterthought when it comes to youth sports here.
The family still owns a farm in Ohio and a home in Del Mar. Especially Fletch. He was getting that really hard-core in Arizona.
Everyone thought he was going to be the best quarterback. You just want them to be who they are. This took the pressure off him.
Carson and Shaelyn point to their own parents as role models who spent as much time with them as they could. How are we not? Palmer won the Heisman as a Trojan in , but the trophy is not in his possession. He used to keep it in his garage but recently honored the request of sports media personality Dan Patrick and loaned it to him to adorn a studio in Connecticut.
That Palmer would part ways, if only temporarily, with such a revered piece of sports hardware is not particularly surprising to Patrick.
I think he was understanding of the joy in life, or how do I get that satisfaction? What is quality of life? Why not let others see it and share it with them to give them some kind of joy?
Roughly 2, miles to the west, Palmer is enjoying a different kind of reward: time with his family. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job.
Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work. Marcus Yam is a foreign correspondent and photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining in , he has covered a wide range of topics including humanitarian issues, social justice, terrorism, foreign conflicts, natural disasters, politics and celebrity portraiture.
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