Retirements discussion

[Suicane]

Gil Langevin has gone to heaven. :cry:

[Jave]

damnit I just remembered that Peacock was the strongest man in the league. His retirement as a stud and only 33 (not young but not retirement age for a player with 80 ovr talent at that age) baffles me.

Yea from everything I heard Jim went kinda nuts here. I thought the 04' retirement was fine as is, and now it appears that a Bret Favre in his 11th year would retire even though he still has years in his tank. I don't like the idea myself. If a player has the ability and the desire, then he should return. There is no set date to retire unless you play 07' FOF.

[MrBigglesworth]

There are four QB's in their 13th or later year: Willoughby, Morris, JC, and Chaplin. Chaplin will actually be 37 before the season is over.

The oldest non-kicker looks to be FA guard Adair, who will turn 38 during the preseason, while the oldest player is punter Aliberte who will turn 41.

[JesterBlaze]

If a player has the ability...then he should return.

I agree with that. Most retirements (ask Junior Say-owe - I can't spell that shit) are management decisions (as in all 32 teams lol) not player decisions. Of course I don't have enough data on FOF 2007 yet and if Peacock was the exception to an otherwise normal rule then that's all good.

I've wished for a while though in all football video games that 99% of the players don't retire until 2-3 years of sitting on the FA wire with no one calling.

[tarcone]

damnit I just remembered that Peacock was the strongest man in the league. His retirement as a stud and only 33 (not young but not retirement age for a player with 80 ovr talent at that age) baffles me.

Yea from everything I heard Jim went kinda nuts here. I thought the 04' retirement was fine as is, and now it appears that a Bret Favre in his 11th year would retire even though he still has years in his tank. I don't like the idea myself. If a player has the ability and the desire, then he should return. There is no set date to retire unless you play 07' FOF.

From my understanding if you play a QB he will stay in the league a long time, i.e. 15 years.

[Cringer]

I pretty much expected my FB to go. I also expected my guard, but he didn't go. That stinks I would have re-signed him for another year.

I expected Leigh (my FB) to retire also. Glad I used my 2nd 1st round pick last year to grab a FB.