That's not to say that Palmer hasn't been a good player since He was quickly healed and played in all 16 games in Madden 23 Coins the next season (no difficult task, just talk to Robert Griffin III) and even made it to the Pro Bowl. But , the Palmer that was in the year 2005 -- when he dominated the Madden NFL 23 with 32 touchdown passes and an 67.8 completion rate while throwing 12 interceptions in the second season of his tenure as a starter -- never reappeared. His accuracy fell as the Bengals organizational issues resurfaced and he had to contend with elbow pain, possibly the combination of throwing to the knee he had surgically repaired.
His time at Cincinnati ended when the Bengals recorded a 4-12 record during the 2010 season. This was Palmer's eighth season with the team. Palmer has stated that he'd like to quit at 31 rather than playing for the Bengals in the future: "I have $80 million in my bank account. I don't need to play football for money. I'll do it because I love football but the money would have to be elsewhere. I'm prepared to live my life." Take a moment to think about it for a moment: Palmer, the first overall pick in the 2003 Madden NFL 23 Draft, older than both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning was set to never be a football player again until 31 years old. That's how much playing for the Bengals makes him a slob.
Bengals proprietor Mike Brown, who created his perpetually failing machine with financial prudence and nepotism, refused to allow draft picks free from a quarterback-stricken league. "Carson signed to a contract. He made a promise. He stood by his word." Brown said. "We were relying on his commitment to his word. We believed in his word. We expected him to perform in this regard. He's going to walk away from his obligation. We're not going to reward him for his decision."
Brown finally made it halfway through the 2011 seasonand sent Palmer to Oakland for a first-round draft pick and a conditional second rounder, one of the reasons why the Raiders have remained a less-successful franchise than the Bengals in the last two years.
There's a reason Oakland's fervent fans shout through the Black Hole: because the physics of collapsed stars apply for the Raiders. As quarterbacks cross the event horizon of becoming an Oakland Raider, their photons are reduced to Cheap Mut 23 Coins zero, so we as observers never notice them disappearing. We are just able to look away.
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