I think Arizona is foolish if they don't keep Rosen. Unless rosen's personality rubbed them the wrong way. In that case. A team would have to look for why after only one year the cards want to dump him. Seems like it would be hard to give up a 1st rounder for a locker room cancer. Which would be the only reason to not keep him.
I think they need the QB to fit the system and Murray is that guy.
that said, I never understood folks giving Rosen a hard time. Guy just shoots straight and folks in the NFL or NCAA don't like getting called on their BS.
Did the kid have to play ball? Nope. He comes from Manhattan Beach, the son of two academics, who likely could have gone to an Ivy or some really strong academic school and just got his batch of degrees and lived his life.
He was actually standing up for his fellow athletes who come from really crappy circumstances (in the NCAA instances) saying that the way the NCAA handles athletes is beyond exploitative. And it is. There's NO WAY that Johnny Manziel or Zion Williamson is getting a fair shake with respect to their value. I mean Zion had his own special Nike shoes and dedicated network camera crew following him during the tourney. I'm sure that 1 year at Duke is totally worth the HUNDREDS of millions of dollars the Sports Industrial Complex has made off of him.
It's really frustrating to see Rosen getting all this flack as he went to UCLA which was at the forefront of the civil rights movement... Kareem Abdul Jabaar was one of many activists that was simply speaking the plain truth. I have serious beef with UCLA...where I was literally born as my mom was a student there at the time...but I'll save that.
And you know the powers that be are so f'n attached to their exploitative power that they'll slam anyone. I mean, the NFL was shadowing Dr Omalu who discovered CTE and one wonders if they actually had the conversation about having a third party "take care of him" because of the potential damage to the league.
I like the kid. He's always been a stand up guy when asked questions, rarely downshifts into "player speak" and is willing to be honest, even if that's not a popular thing.
Maybe it's just me, but I remember a day when we respected honesty, even if we disagreed with what was said.
Some of the garbage written about Rosen is...well...it's pretty clear who's actually saying it, why the reporter/opinion maker is putting these negative takes out there and none of it has a damn thing to do with truth, honesty, sport, sportsmanship, leadership, talent or anything else of value.
Sorry, this topic really gets me going. They can talk up guys like Johnny Manziel, Greg Hardy and others and overlook or simply ignore who and what they are... but a kid just honestly points out the complete bullshittery that everyone sees plain as day and he's given all these labels. Just burns me up.
And yes, his first year was very similar to Goff's.
