His tenure in Cincinnati ended when the Bengals finished 4-12 during the season of 2010. which was Palmer's eighth season with Madden 23 Coins the team. Palmer claimed that he'd much rather retire at the age of 31 than to play for the Bengals in the future: "I have $80 million in my bank account. I don't need to play football for money. I'll play to enjoy the game but it must be somewhere else. I'm willing to live my life." Take a moment to think about it for a moment: Palmer, the first overall pick of the 2003 Madden NFL 23 Draft, younger that both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and was determined to never play football again at the age of 31. That's how much playing with the Bengals is a pain in the arse.

Bengals owner Mike Brown, who created his ever-present failure machine through the use of nepotism and frugality, was unwilling to let draft picks be free from a quarterback-starved league. "Carson signed an agreement. He signed a contract. He gave his word," Brown said. "We trusted his word. We rely on his promises. We expected him to perform in this regard. He's going to withdraw from his promise. We aren't going to reward the man for his actions."

Brown finally came to terms with halfway through the 2011 season, sending Palmer to Oakland to receive a first-round selection and a conditional second rounder, one of the reasons that the Raiders have been able to remain in a lower-performing league than the Bengals in the past couple of decades.

There's a reason that the Oakland fans who are fervently loyal to the team shout through into the Black Hole: because the physics of collapsed stars apply to Raiders. As quarterbacks travel across the boundary of being an Oakland Raider the photons they emit are slowed to zero, which means that we don't have the opportunity to see them disappear. Then we just look away.

Palmer did however manage to achieve escape velocity after a trade with the Cardinals in the spring of 2013. He led in leading the Cardinals to a 10-6-2 record as the first player within Madden NFL 23 history to throw for over 4000 yards with three different teams. He was even more successful this year, winning all of his six starts while the Cardinals made their way to Madden 23 Coins Buy an upper level of the NFC. The 11 touchdown passes he completed to three interceptions was his best ratio of his career.