Conley
10-21-2011, 12:32 PM
This has been a tumultuous year for the 34-year-old center, who played the first 13 seasons of his career with the Chicago Bears but could not come to terms on a contract this offseason. Kreutz, a six-time Pro Bowl performer, had said he was willing to take a pay cut to stay in Chicago, but negotiations became public and messy and Kreutz finally signed a one-year deal with the Saints.
"I think there's probably some correlation to [how things went down with the Bears]," Bartelstein said. "It hurt him a lot the way it went down with the Bears. He wanted to finish his career with the Bears, so I think there's a part of it. But how much, it's hard to say."
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7131226/agent-center-olin-kreutz-walking-away-new-orleans-saints
Sad way to go out.
"I think there's probably some correlation to [how things went down with the Bears]," Bartelstein said. "It hurt him a lot the way it went down with the Bears. He wanted to finish his career with the Bears, so I think there's a part of it. But how much, it's hard to say."
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7131226/agent-center-olin-kreutz-walking-away-new-orleans-saints
Sad way to go out.