Ryans and Drob Skipping Workouts

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Originally Posted by RunninRaven

I think you're right, nunusguy. What's wild is he isn't demanding a trade like most players. It's almost as if he's demanding FREE AGENCY. Which is bizarre. There is no way the team let's him go without compensation. Dunta needs to get his head straight or this could go on a LONNNG time.

And I think it's going to. I don't understand why he's behaving like this, or what he's trying to prove, but I'm hoping the Texans call his bluff. It would be ridiculous to promise not to franchise him next year, and he has to know that. The only thing that makes sense to me, since he clearly doesn't want to be in houston at this juncture, is to structure his contract like albert haynesworth's last year. load it with incentives that, if reached, block us from franchising him again. That'd get him into camp, and at absolute max effort, at that. Who knows, maybe a little playoff run with this young team might have an effect on how bad he wants to leave.

I don't really get where he's coming from in this whole situation. He's said on several occasions, even as recently as a few months ago, that he wants to retire a Texan. Does he want to be a free agent so he can travel the country picking up free steak dinners just to come back and say, "Look how loyal I am"? And what happened to "You can count on me, coach"? Not showing up till the middle of september doesn't exactly match up to that statement. The longer this goes on, and the more he digs in his heels, the more I'm becoming comfortable with trading him the second he signs his tender. For being such a "locker room guy," he sure is becoming quite the malcontent.