Dan Morgan retires (again)
Question: What do Brett Favre and Dan Morgan share in common?
Answer: Both have retired in each of the past two off-seasons.
Dan Morgan, who was attempting a comeback with the Saints, has decided to call it quits again, according to Brian Allee-Walsh of the The Times Picayune.
The news of his retirement was first made public on Twitter by his agent Drew Rosenhaus: "Dan Morgan has informed the Saints that he has decided to retire due continued injuries..."
Morgan retired from the Saints in May 2008 and sat out last year, but he had been working out with the Saints this off-season.
"You don't get surprised by anything anymore,'' [coach Sean] Payton said. "With him, it's a second go-around. But in fairness to him, the difference this time around is that he had gone through the offseason program whereas the first time there was very little invested when he decided to sit out a year.
"In this case, he had been here for pretty much all of the offseason program, seven or eight weeks of lifting and running. So, it's a little bit more of surprise being that he had been here through it all.''
Morgan, the Panthers' first-round in 2001, made the Pro Bowl in 2004. In his seven years in Carolina, Morgan played 59 games (an average of 8.4 games per season) and never played more than 13 games in any season.
Answer: Both have retired in each of the past two off-seasons.
Dan Morgan, who was attempting a comeback with the Saints, has decided to call it quits again, according to Brian Allee-Walsh of the The Times Picayune.
The news of his retirement was first made public on Twitter by his agent Drew Rosenhaus: "Dan Morgan has informed the Saints that he has decided to retire due continued injuries..."
Morgan retired from the Saints in May 2008 and sat out last year, but he had been working out with the Saints this off-season.
"You don't get surprised by anything anymore,'' [coach Sean] Payton said. "With him, it's a second go-around. But in fairness to him, the difference this time around is that he had gone through the offseason program whereas the first time there was very little invested when he decided to sit out a year.
"In this case, he had been here for pretty much all of the offseason program, seven or eight weeks of lifting and running. So, it's a little bit more of surprise being that he had been here through it all.''
Morgan, the Panthers' first-round in 2001, made the Pro Bowl in 2004. In his seven years in Carolina, Morgan played 59 games (an average of 8.4 games per season) and never played more than 13 games in any season.
