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Chris Gamble was Benched?

TylerDurden

By TylerDurden,
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People in here talking about trading Gamble...and then what?!! We're screwed if that happens. We're already going to lose Marshall, we cant afford to lose Gamble also. Gamble may be in a lil slump right now, but he's still our best corner and has been pretty good for us over the years. It also helps that he's still pretty young.

LOL, Gamble is a poor tackler though

People are talking about trading just about every player on our team right now that has any trade value. The general consensus is we should go after free agents which we have historically never done or trade good to great proven players for unproven draft picks. It is amazing isn't it. Trust me if I hear one more trade this player talk I think I am going to get sick. We have cut all the dead weight and arguably a little more than that. We don't need to trade anyone at this point. The guys we have left are pretty darn good and would be starters on any other team.

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Tell me... How does Richard Marshalls jock smell?

I never said that Richard Marshall was anything better than solid, but way to be a douche anyway. I just think it's incredibly ignorant for everyone on the forum to say that Richard Marshall "sucks" when he's actually pretty good.

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Marshall won't be back next year, Gamble probably will, but losing both could be easily replaced.

Easily replaced by who? Munnerlyn may or may not be a starting corner, but after him we have no one competent. So we're going to bank on drafting a rookie that can start, or hope that there's a good FA CB that wants to come here?

Oh wait, I forgot that we can just go shake the magic shut-down corner tree whenever we want. :rolleyes:

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From Joe Person's twitter:

Panthers DE Everette Brown indicated CB Chris Gamble's benching at Cleveland was related to his absence from a practice last week.

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Brown on Gamble: "That’s 1 of those things where he made an out-of-mind decision. He came back the next day and apologized ...

So it sounds like Gamble may have decided to give himself the day off on Wednesday and that's why he was benched (sort of).

link: http://twitter.com/josephperson

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