As it turns out, Sam Bradford’s holdout had less to do with cowardice than with avarice.
It doesn’t make him any less selfish, or any less greedy, but it does make him look like less of a wimp.
Bradford wasn’t scared of outplaying Carson Wentz after the Eagles traded up from No. 8 to No. 2 in the draft. He just saw a chance to cash in more quickly and more surely in Denver than in Philadelphia.
The narrative of Bradford as a yellow-belly never made sense, really. Bradford spent the last seven weeks of the 2015 season getting his teeth kicked, all the while playing as well as he had in any of his previous six NFL seasons.