No regrets, rancor for Morgan

Linebacker Dan Morgan said that he has no regrets, and no bitterness toward the Carolina Panthers for releasing him today.

"I’ve never been one to look back and regret things," he said by phone this evening. "You can’t worry about things you can’t control. If you did, you wouldn’t be able to keep your sanity. And if I let that stuff get to me, I’d have been out of football a long time ago."

Morgan’s injury problems are well-documented; I won’t get into them here. Maybe because of past concussions, he should not play again. But Morgan, who is nearing the end of rehabbing a torn Achilles tendon, still has the football itch and is determined to scratch it. And that’s his decision.

He has no idea where he will play.

"To be 100 percent honest, (agent) Drew (Rosenhaus) hasn’t talked to one team yet. I don’t know where I’ll end up or if anybody will offer me a contract. But I felt like last year before the injury, those first couple games I was hitting people and feeling good, with no problems. I still feel that way."

Wherever he lands, Morgan will remember Carolina fondly.

"I’ve had a lot of bad luck, but I’ve also made some great friends here," he said. "Carolina has a lot of class. This (release) was not really a shock because of (the injury) last year."

There will be more on this and on the release of guard Mike Wahle in tomorrow’s Observer.

--Stan Olson