Rumor: Holt to be Traded or Released?

Really Lost One · Sep 27, 2008

It seems as though nothing is going right in St. Louis now-a-days they can't win, they benched there QB for Trent Green someon there running back hates now it seems they may be looking to move All-Pro Wideout Torry Holt......

Rams receiver Torry Holt has joined the growing chorus of players who disagree with the decision to bench quarterback Marc Bulger.

And Holt's position could be the icing on the cake that gets him sent out of town.

"I was shocked, man, I was really shocked," Holt recently said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I went up to Marc immediately and apologized to him as a receiver and for our receiver group and the offense for not making enough plays to give him an opportunity to stay on the football field with us."

But Holt is looking forward to playing, even without Bulger on the field. "It gives us a platform to escape all this madness," Holt said. "You can get away from everything that's going on and actually go out and play a game that we've always loved to play since we were youngsters."

Holt might escape the madness in a different way. Per our pal Howard Balzer of InsideSTL.com, the same person who tipped Balzer off to the release of cornerback Fakhir Brown also has told Balzer that coach Scott Linehan is trying to trade Holt, and could release him.

The problem is that Linehan and Holt, as Balzer explains it, "despise each other."

As we've mentioned in connection with Roy Williams of the Lions and Tony Gonzalez of the Chiefs, the fact that a team is so clearly bad so early in the season makes a trade of a veteran who's closing in on the end of his contract more plausible.

Especially where the coach and the player despise each other. The duo had multiple disagreements in 2007.

Holt is under contract through 2009 at a base salary of $5.65 million this year, and $6.65 million next year.
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http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/Holt_could_be_traded_or_cut_very_soon/339983

This is interesting. I don't know how credible the source really is though. I mean, I guess I could see Holt being traded, after all, he isn't too happy with the organization, and he is getting up there in age. Why stay and rot in St. Louis? But flat out releasing him is just ridiculous. Don't see that happening. Although I hope he does get released and the Eagles pick him up!

Moo2K4 · Sep 28, 2008

Considering the source doesn't even know how to use proper grammar or punctuation (note the first paragraph, lol), I'm not sure how serious I'm taking this. The Rams would be dumb to flatout release him anyways. He's still a great and productive WR in the NFL, so they'd be better off trading him and at least getting something out of him.

#1_War_Poet_ForLife · Sep 28, 2008

Holt on the Eagles. Damn.

BasX · Sep 29, 2008

Grammar Fail FTW

JE · Sep 30, 2008

BasX said: ↑

Grammar Fail FTW
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Consistency fail.

JE · Sep 30, 2008

I don't think Holt's going anywhere.

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