Antonio Pierce NFLPlayers.com Journal

I'm going to be a mean person here and say I hope Pierce stinks up the joint. Think about it. If he totally sucks, we know we really have a genious as a D coordinator, and it will give us confidence throughout the year if we continue to shuffle players on D because of injury. I want us to win so bad, I wish others to fail.

I'm going to be a mean person here and say I hope Pierce stinks up the joint. Think about it. If he totally sucks, we know we really have a genious as a D coordinator, and it will give us confidence throughout the year if we continue to shuffle players on D because of injury. I want us to win so bad, I wish others to fail.




i'm with you mancd, screw antonio, he left us to go play for another team in our division. i hope he, as well as the giants , totally suck.

he now is the enemy!!:FIREdevil

The thing I have against Pierce, if your going for the bucks and want a big payday......it's a business, but if you plan to do that then keep your BIG MOUTH shut and don't claim that you want to be a long time Redskins.............

From David Elfin Washington Times:
Middle linebacker Antonio Pierce could be starting his final game for Washington on Sunday, but the free agent-to-be reiterated yesterday that he has no plans to leave the Redskins.
"I'm big-time confident that it will get done," Pierce said of ongoing contract negotiations. "[Redskins owner Dan Snyder] and Coach [Joe] Gibbs are committed to it. They know I don't want to go anywhere else. This isn't going to be my last game with the Redskins."

Pierce said he didn't want to leave, but at the same time you have to understand in the end he has to make the best decision for himself, and the Giants simply offered him a better deal.

Pierce was more than fair to the Redskins, he gave them the chance to match the deal and the team declined.

I can't find any reason to hold anything against Pierce, again I wish him the best.

i wish him success in his life off the football field but as far as on the field goes, i wish him and his team much trouble and no success. same goes for smoot and the vikes. it doesn't matter how good or nice a player was when they were skins, once that player choses to leave, he no longer has my support. especially when he choses to play for a team in the same division.

may antonio be "SCALPED" by the skins offense this year..........twice!!!!!!

The thing I have against Pierce, if your going for the bucks and want a big payday......it's a business, but if you plan to do that then keep your BIG MOUTH shut and don't claim that you want to be a long time Redskins.............

The thing you have to understand about that is its a negotiation tactic. LaVar did it, too, but it was more effective for him. As a player if you get the fans behind you (along with the team players) then it will put pressure on the front office to meet your demands, because if they don't they will get negative press for it and morale may suffer. Its almost the only platform that a player has to use besides the field, and dont think agents know this and advise their players to say things like, "I want to be a lifetime ________". (insert current team name)

tactic, my ass, he just didn't have the balls to say...."yea, i'm gonna go to the team that offers me the most money".

lol how stupid would that be. This is a career to these guys and they have to manipulate public opinion about them from time to time to get paid. We're all adults here, and you have to understand that there's a good bit of showmanship involved in all professional sports. The only reason the big money is there is because of TV and advertising. Its a show. The great thing about the NFL is that they take measures to keep the game real and not just a stage for personal politics. Even with the measures in place, when you're on a public platform, you'll never stop people from using that for their own personal benefit.

I totally agree with Mattyk and canthetuna - Pierce gave us an opportunity to match the NYG's offer and we didn't. I can't blame the guy for wanting to get millions of dollars more than we would have given him. It's his life and career.

To a certain extent, I wish Pierce the best of luck. On the other hand, I hope he plays awful against the Skins.

Ultimately what matters is that the Redskins beat the Giants so even if AP has 5 sacks, 3 interceptions and 4 forced fumbles in each game but the Skins sweep then that's all I really care about