Dolphins LB Porter requests trade on TV

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Dolphins LB Porter requests trade on TV

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | NFL.com Staff | Tags: Jim Rome, Joey Porter, Miami Dolphins

Dolphins LB Joey Porter told Jim Rome, the host of ESPN’s Rome is Burning, on Monday that he would like to be traded (via Miami Herald reporter Jeff Darlington’s Twitter account).

Porter was benched for a November game because of off-the-field issues and is seen by some as more of a role player than a starter.

“It would just kind of be the smart thing to do,” Porter said. “Why keep a guy there that you want to make a role player?

“They can pay me. They can pay me and keep me on the team, but I won’t be happy.”

Porter has played three seasons with Dolphins after signing a five-year, $32 million contract in 2007. He started his NFL career with the Steelers in 1999.



Hell yes...trade his ass for a 3rd or hell even a 4th round pick...or put him in a package that sends a #1 WR this way.

[Banshee]

Why was he benched?

[Dave Gray]

^^ Coach's decision.

[TonyB0D]

what an asshat.  see ya!

[Brian Fein]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, cause then we'd have to clean off the door.

Jackass.

[Doc-phin]

He is probably trying to save face since it is more likely we will have to cut him.  This way he looks like he is leaving on his terms.

Truth is, they guy needs to go somewhere else and take a pay cut while he is at it.  If he doesn't like it, he can opt to retire.  He just isn't as good as his contract anymore.

[doctord56]

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Dolphins LB Porter requests trade on TV



Hell yes...trade his ass for a 3rd or hell even a 4th round pick...or put him in a package that sends a #1 WR this way.

Only problem with this scenario is that no team is dumb enough to offer this for Joey; I doubt anyone would give up even a 7th for a big contract/locker room cancer/aging/ diminishing skills linebacker.

Perhaps psychotic Al Davis might want Joey, as the Raiders have always been a way station for this kind of player. But I can't see anybody else offering anything of value. I think he'll just get cut and given his outright release before his next roster bonus is due.

[Kirbyjr]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, cause then we'd have to clean off the door.

Jackass.

I agree, I was on board with this ass clown for way too long, ship his ass out asap.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

I liked Joey.   

[Tenshot13]

Joey Porter still doesn't know when to STFU...

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/10062/porter-resents-losing-snaps-to-wake

Porter resents losing snaps to Wake
February, 2, 2010
7:06 PM ET
By Tim Graham
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Joey Porter can't fathom why the Miami Dolphins preferred to use outside linebacker Cameron Wake ahead of him last year.

That's the crux of Porter's dissatisfaction with the Dolphins and why he wants to play elsewhere.

"You got a Pro Bowl player, asking to play," Porter said Tuesday afternoon during a long interview with Miami sports radio station WQAM. Porter sat down on Radio Row in the Super Bowl media center. "If you let us just fight for the job, it's not even an argument. No shots to nobody, but it's not even an argument.

"All them guys in my room, love them to death, but at outside linebacker, I'm the best one we got, period. There's nothing to even talk about. Who am I switching with? Why should I be switching out with any of them guys?"

He later said "If you want to put Cameron Wake in the game, go ahead and good luck to you. Let me go find a new job somewhere."

Inside linebacker Channing Crowder was a guest co-host for WQAM's program and claimed he wasn't alone in being baffled when head coach Tony Sparano took Porter and Jason Taylor off the field. Taylor and Porter were named to the NFL's All-Decade team Sunday.

"If the game's on the line, I want my two Pro Bowlers coming off the edges, Crowder said. "That's my mind as an inside linebacker.

"If I see different guys out there, not bad mouthing anyone, I'm going to be like 'Peezy, you straight? You good? You healthy? J.T., you straight? You healthy? Why aren't you all out there?'



"It was a funny situation among the team. The coaches and team are all supposed to be together as one, but there's till that camaraderie that gathers. It was an uncomfortable situation among the team, and I know I'm not the only player that thinks that. I know a lot of the other guys were, too."

Porter said playing behind Wake and Charlie Anderson so frequently deflated him, especially for the final seven games after Sparano deactivated him for a game.

Porter, speaking to Crowder, said "You've been to me 'Come on, man, I need you right now,' and mentally my mind wouldn't be there because I'm distraught and frustrated that I'm on the sideline a whole quarter, watching the game, and there ain't nothing the matter with me.

"It's hard for me to accept that after being Pro Bowl just a year ago, 17.5 sacks, making the all-decade team. All of a sudden I'm taking back seat, and for who, and for what? Explain that to me, and I'll have a better answer for you."

Porter had a team-high nine sacks, but half of them came in two games. Wake finished his first NFL season with 5.5 sacks. Anderson had two sacks.

Porter suggested he turned into a ghost around the Dolphins' facility after Sparano benched him, claiming Sparano, general manager Jeff Ireland and football operations boss Bill Parcells wouldn't talk to him.

"I went from being a defensive captain and talking to the coach every day to not talking to the coach no more," Porter said. "Only time I talked to him was on game day. I was talking to nobody, seeing Jeff Ireland and Bill and nobody's saying nothing to you no more. You just kind of feel like an outcast. The writing was on the wall for me.

"I'm not going to let them take my fire out of me, and they did that."

[Dolphin-UK]

So, Mr Porter, what you're essentially saying is that despite being paid a ton of money to play sports professionally, the concept that a coach might decide to bring you off in the overall interestes of the team is enough to affect you mentally, to the extent that your level of play drops.

In the same breath you're going to stand there and say that in important moments, when Crowder would tell you to get your head in the game, you weren't able to because you had previously been pulled off the field, and then say that they should have left you on because you're the best out there?

"Hey coach, if you take me off even once, my mental state will be so badly affected that you'll need to pull me off the field every 3rd down" Way to be a Pro, that's what we're paying you for.

Sparano must be chuckling to himself, Porter just went on national TV and confirmed the reason why he was being taken off on 3rd downs!

Channing, can you hold the door open for Mr Porter please, he'll be leaving soon, oh and by the way, you can follow him out....

[CF DolFan]

I can't believe Crowder allowed himself to get sucked in unless he wants to get replaced too. It's probably already over for Porter and may be soon for Crowder as well.

[Brian Fein]

I sympathize with him, for a second, but that part about "I can't focus cause I was so frustrated..." BS lost it for me.

If you're frustrated about NOT playing, then why don't you PLAY when you ARE playing?

What a whiny bitch.  Sounds like the old "I'll show you..." mentality.  

All our linebackers are bitches.

[Philly Fin Fan]

Porter is seriously being very unprofessional about this. What coach is going to want him now, knowing that he'll go talk to reporters and whine every time he disagrees with the coaches moves?

And Crowder needs to realize that he should keep his mouth shut on this. It doesn't involve him- its between Porter and Sparano. He needs to stop looking up to Porter so much, unless Porter can guarantee him a job wherever he ends up next season ! (In other words- if he keeps siding with Porter, he may be out of a job too!)

[ethurst22a]

This whole scenario shouldn't surprise us.

I said weeks ago that there was a rift in the defensive unit. This is partly the reason why they had given up the last few games. There were a lot of things going on that caused division with Porter being one of them.

I don't care what anyone says, the Porter and JT teaming did not work at all.

Porter does not play the run well and he has never been much in coverage. Another Pat Swilling. The Dolphins will end up cutting Porter. I guess that Crowder knows that he won't be back either so he's getting in subtle shots.

From another angle, with Porter gone, this is year three of the Sparano regime and fans are impatient in Miami. He'd better have a good draft and no more than an 11-5 record and advance deep in the playoffs or we'll start hearing about his job security.