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I think Hopkins has a little more leverage than you think, which is one reason I bet we'll hear more from McNair before Sunday.
I'm pretty sure Hopkins majored in sports management. Which would probably teach him how to, you know, deal with players without causing them to want to walk out on their jobs. Maybe McNair should check out a course or two.
I think we'll see some do just that. As Richard Sherman has pointed out, some players are beginning to understand the contempt that fans seem to hold them in. Fantasy football has certainly exacerbated that. Now the owners don't just view them as disposable commodities, but the fans do too. Players waking up to that is, IMO, the real story here. Now, the owners have all the financial leverage in the world, but I wouldn't discount the power of a labor movement that feels that it is fighting for more than just a few percentage points of the league's profits.
McNair used a poor choice of words. With NFL players getting arrested almost weekly on a year round basis and all the domestic violence that hit too close to home and made them uncomfortable. "Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians" would have been much better.
I'm pretty sure Hopkins majored in sports management. Which would probably teach him how to, you know, deal with players without causing them to want to walk out on their jobs. Maybe McNair should check out a course or two.
Also, the owners are welcome to fall back on all those other world class football players who aren't currently in the NFL.
Sure does. You'll see that when McNair does something else to show his contrition in the next 24 hours so he doesn't further risk alienating a sizable portion of the fans and players who have made him hundreds of millions of dollars for sitting on his ###.talks
This is an inaccurate and offensive post. I assure you that my uncle says something moronic way before his fifth beer.
As we see in college sports the game always goes on. Players come and go and are interchangeable. Plus the player pool is endless and there will always be another to step in.
I don't know how old you are, but I remember the strike season in 1987. Go watch some game tape of Sean Payton playing QB for the Bears and tell me the game will go on like that.
It did for a short period of time. You can't bundle the likelihood of someone like Richard Sherman or a longer term veteran with years of making millions under their belts with rookies and soon to be drafted players. Do you think it's likely that a Saquon Barkley would give up a path to millions? Guys who have only been on rookie deals or first contracts aren't likely to go anywhere either. I agree the NFL owners don't prefer that situation, but let's not overstate it to where the league is going to be entirely made up of replacement player level talents.
Yeah that's not happening. And it shouldn't.
What's everyone else's degree in? I know Watsons is in communications...maybe he can get a job broadcasting about these injustices?
It will never happen that way. Maybe I am wrong but I don`t see Antonio Brown giving up a million dollar a game payday. Or Suh giving up 1.5 million a game. Then you have the lower paid guys who are clawing for 20-50K per game checks that they need to live on.
Did a grown man tattle on me for something because he felt offended?
College football is pretty popular.
A few dozen open roster spots in the NFL would be an unacceptable dilution of the talent pool. At least, that's what the owners say when expansion gets brought up.
I suspect that Joe Bryant was offended when you made a crack about black people drinking malt liquor, but I could be wrong. The mods deleted your post in addition to a bunch of posts which criticized you, so you were obviously getting some special protection there.
This is why players shouldn't blow their money like so many of them do. They could live frugally, save their money so when they need to exercise the only power they have they can make it felt by the owners and league. Instead, I bet many of them "need" their paychecks, so they'll play.
Unfortunately most likely true. Instead of a $600-700k house they buy a 2mil + house etc. Their money but financial education should be stresssed by agents etc
Redskins.......... Oh, wait, that's their actual name. Good thing they aren't in 1st place or we would be hearing about that again.
Yeah, I tend to agree. I do think any person who owns or runs a company would catch flak for referring to its employees in that analogy if became public. Because of the highly tense situation this has become, he certainly should be more careful.
What do you think would have happened had the owner of the Penguins said this, or any other NHL team?
Context is everything. Yes, it is a commonly used expression (running an asylum that is) but his team has predominately black players and to refer to them as prisoners has negative racial and racist overtones from their perspective. Here is a comment on social media from an AA woman, which is an overreaction, but is typical of what I have been seeing today:
Yeah, not really sure what @massraider is referring to there. McNair gave $1mm to Harvey and has long been generous towards higher education. My alma mater, in particular, has received a great deal over the years. I was friends with many people on scholarships bearing his name, so I've been more aware of him than most owners at least.
Probably the opposite of what would have happened if any owner of an NBA team said this.
Predominately black players versus predominately white players. People whose race has a history of enslavement can be a bit overly sensitive to be referred to as a prisoner, which has overtones of being regarded as chattel.
Didn't we have the Clippers owner go down for something claimed to be racist too? What was that, for context.
Agreed. Even though it was in private, it probably wasn't the best choice of words, even though that is a take on a fairly common cliche. The fact that some are taking his comments literally or spinning it to act like it translates to something else is sad. Not surprising, but sad.“I never meant to offend anyone, and I was not referring to our players,” McNair said in a statement on Friday. “I used a figure of speech that was never intended to be taken literally. I would never characterize our players or our league that way, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/sports/football/bob-mcnair-texans.html?_r=0
Seems sincere. I get why people are upset (particularly Texans), but doesn't seem like a big deal
Whenever racial inequality ends, which has been the main issue behind the protests since day one.
