According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Carson Palmer has now found a buyer for his house in Indian Hills, Ohio after putting it up for sale earlier this year. This would seem to add further weight to his threat that he will retire from the NFL if the Bengals refuse to trade him.
However, Cincinnati Bengals President, Mike Brown has said that they have no intention of trading Palmer and wishes for him to return to the franchise. Brown also said that they will go with rookie Andy Dalton at quarterback should Palmer stick to his guns and not come back once play resumes in the NFL, but ideally he would like to have both of them.
Quarterback, Andy Dalton who the Bengals drafted in the second round out of Texas Christian University would seem like a good prospect at the position. Nevertheless it would likely be of great benefit to him if he could spend some time learning from an eight year veteran like Palmer.
It would seem like a difficult position to be in for the management in Cincinnati. If Palmer does decide to retire then they will have lost quite a valuable player. On the other hand if he comes back they will have to choose whether they want to start him or Dalton. If Carson is as unhappy playing in Cincinnati as he seems to be then he probably won’t give it his all, meaning it may of more benefit to the Bengals to trade him. However Mike Brown is a stubborn man and I don’t think he would be prepared to set such a precedence by giving in to Palmer’s demands; whatever the situation is, after all he didn’t give in to Chad Ochocinco’s desire to be traded in the past. If I was Carson Palmer I wouldn’t get my hopes up for a trade.
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