The Dude

Jr was also a locker room cancer and twitter crybaby. APs problems were off the field and won't effect play or performance. I'll take a player like AP any day. It's not like Payton himself is a boyscout.

ChrisXVI

The problem with trying to debate something like this is that we'll just be totally speculating because none of us were in these locker rooms or know what it's like to be their team mate. All I can say is that I don't like the dude and it'll be hard to root for him. Won't be the first or last time that's happened so I'll survive.

burningmetal

Junior is more reviled around here because he "stole" a lot of money, by getting that big contract and then acting like an idiot. I seem to remember that his teammates had also soured to him. I don't know what Peterson's teammates thought of him, exactly, but I never heard anything negative from them.

My opinion is that the league is likely full of less then spectacular human beings, whom we don't hear about because they manage to keep it out of the open. But as long as those guys aren't causing problems in the locker room, they are productive, and you can afford them (which, this should be a relatively cheap deal) then as a team, you can live with them not being the greatest people in their personal lives.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.