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Jon Beason joins the Gettleman hate train

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Beason told Charlotte radio station WFNZ Gettleman said there was nothing wrong with his leg and he would play regardless. Despite Gettleman's doubts, Beason did not play the rest of 2011.

Gettleman's firing was celebrated by former Panthers DeAngelo Williams, Steve Smith and Josh Norman, who were all unceremoniously shown the door in Carolina by Gettleman. Beason said he was shocked by Gettleman's firing, but does not hold any ill will. 

"I moved on and wished the team well," he told WFNZ. "I was happy for the players to go to the Super Bowl."

Beason's injury led the Panthers to select Kuechly in the first round of the 2012 draft and he was the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year as Beason lost his starting job to Chase Blackburn. Beason was traded to the Giants in 2013 and said Gettleman's firing sort of brings everything "full circle."

"The way that the trade went down between the Giants and the Panthers when I moved on from the Carolina Panthers, it was done in a way that wasn't classy," Beason told CBS Sports. "I didn't want to be the disgruntled player who's saying this, saying that because he was traded. But at the end of the day, you're a first-round pick, you played extremely well for an organization, you're one of the key guys on the team, a new GM comes in and doesn't even give you a handshake on your way out the door.

Beason said there was a disconnect between Gettleman and Panthers coach Ron Rivera, so Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, whom Beason called "Big Cat," stepped in. Beason said the disconnect was with how Gettleman treated players and he and Richardson did not have a great relationship.

 

 

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From what I've gathered reading these player comments today, Gettleman was a genuine asshole. It's one thing to make business decisions, but you should at least be cordial and show respect towards the player.

I mean we cut Roddy White and even he didn't go off on us like these guys are doing to Gettleman.

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Everyone who talked poo to people about the way Smitty and company were unceremoniously shown the door needs to really shut the hell up now. Not that I think G-man should have been fired, but I believe the players. There were apparently some deep-seated issues with G-man's people skills that transcended some easily perceived notions of collective butt-hurt.

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A handshake and an earnest "thank you for your services," is not too much to ask under any circumstances.

I was a Gettleman guy on several fronts, but I absolutely had problems with the way that he handled a few breakups. I never was, nor will I ever be, the fan that talks poo about every quality player that leaves Charlotte out of some perverse sense of loyalty to a GM that supposedly can do no wrong. Just call a spade a spade. How you treat people, even as you show them the door, matters! Present and future assholes, take heed!

That's the moral of the story.

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9 minutes ago, top dawg said:

Everyone who talked poo to people about the way Smitty and company were unceremoniously shown the door needs to really shut the hell up now. Not that I think G-man should have been fired, but I believe the players. There were apparently some deep-seated issues with G-man's people skills that transcended some easily perceived notions of collective butt-hurt.

give me a good reason why i should give a poo about a bunch of 30 something year old lazy unmotivated players having a hissy pity party bc they're being held accountable for poor performance suddenly after how many years of playing in a kush environment that pampered them with lavish contracts and didn't expect them to do anything more than show up on the field and sometimes not even that, when i'm more interested in seeing this team win championships.

 

the only reason why these guys are crying is because they came into the league with a certain understanding after being spoiled by hurney and the philosophy got turned on its side when he departed and got replaced by gettleman. and the biggest irony is that the teams these guys went to for sanctuary while they were ripping on the panthers' organization would've thrown them away that much quicker if they had played with the kind of entitled complacency they displayed here for so long. especially in the case of deangelo and smith.

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25 minutes ago, theDIRTYcode2 said:

From what I've gathered reading these player comments today, Gettleman was a genuine asshole. It's one thing to make business decisions, but you should at least be cordial and show respect towards the player.

I mean we cut Roddy White and even he didn't go off on us like these guys are doing to Gettleman.

Yep, not sure why so many have their heads in the sand on this.

Tough decisions have to be made in this business (or hell, any business for that matter) but the way Gettleman handled those decisions was poor at best and his smugness about it only made it worse. From a pure football perspective, I liked most of his moves, but it's not difficult to believe that the locker room may have been on the brink of mutiny.

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Just now, frash.exe said:

give me a good reason why i should give a poo about a bunch of 30 something year old lazy unmotivated players having a hissy pity party bc they're being held accountable for poor performance suddenly after how many years of playing in a kush environment that pampered them with lavish contracts and didn't expect them to do anything more than show up on the field and sometimes not even that, when i'm more interested in seeing this team win championships.

 

the only reason why these guys are crying is because they came into the league with a certain understanding after being spoiled by hurney and the philosophy got turned on its side when he departed and got replaced by gettleman. and the biggest irony is that the teams these guys went to for sanctuary while they were ripping on the panthers' organization would've thrown them away that much quicker if they had played with the kind of entitled complacency they displayed here for so long. especially in the case of deangelo and smith.

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