Lynch & Stroud Named Pro Bowl Alternates

I don’t hate Peters. I don’t even want him traded. As Joe P. and norcal and a few others have expressed, I would be open to it if the right situation were available.

However, I am pointing out that MOST (not all) of the arguments that are made in his support are then contradicted by the same people. You can’t claim that Peters deserves to get paid more because he made the Pro Bowl again (or is a top 5 LT because he made the Pro Bowl again) and then in the next breath say the Pro Bowl is a joke. Well, you can claim such things, but in my book, that means I trust the judgment less of people who make such arguments. It suggests to me that people who make such arguments are blinded by the “star factor,” the same star factor that people detest in Favre, TO, etc. In my opinion, that “star factor” is argued away on behalf of Peters in a way that is simply too homer-ish.

Some people have given some good reasons to show Peters is the player he claims he is. For the most part, I believe that. What I want him to do is put up and shut up. I want to see him start admitting that he made a boneheaded, selfish decision that hurt his teammates and his team. Stop mouthing off to the fans. Stop claiming he’s such a great, deserving player and, instead, prove it a little more often.