NFL offseason thread

didn’t think I’d see a Germaine or Hoying sighting on this thread

 

Saw Hoying look like P. Manning in a Kickoff Classic game against BC at the Meadowlands. Then again, with Eddie George and Terry Glenn on board, it probably wasn't that hard.

 

My theory - only that - is there’s some sore ass at Georgia, which had some ninth-grade-looking guy getting his ass handed to him at Alabama instead of Fields winning at Alabama - saying mean shit about him.

 

That’s a dangerous game to play though. If word gets out that you are stabbing guys in the back that way, it can boomerang back onto your recruiting in a hurry. And football coaches are nothing if not the biggest gossip whores going.

 

Agreed. But somebody said something. I don’t think Dan Orlovsky just made it up.

 

I would think it is more likely coming from the pro side, where there is incentive to drive down the stock of someone you aren’t quite in range to get. (Plus the whole love of gossip thing. I’m convinced sports journalism owes much of its growth to the inability of 90 percent of Football Men not to run their lips all day. God bless them.)

 

I don't think he made it up. He was just stupid enough to repeat it.

 

Before those shitty tweets, aren’t the Raiders considered one of most diverse franchises?
Flores
Shell
Upshaw
Allen
Jackson
Brown

 

The Raiders have little to apologize for to the PC police. Throw in Amy Trask as the first female President of an NFL franchise - one of the reasons Al Davis was somewhat reviled by the rest of the league is that he didn't pay a lot of attention to the "we've never done that before" ethos that is rampant within owners. Davis didn't come from money, nor was he "of the establishment" since his AFL days - I'm guessing some of that rubbed off on his son.

 

"PC Police"?

Mark Davis decided to tweet out a slogan used by police to mock Black men they have killed. He didn't mean it that way, and he apologized for it and made it clear he didn't know the context. It was still a monumentally stupid tweet, and his father's hiring practices don't really change the fact that it was monumentally stupid.

 

George Floyd family responds to Raiders tweet


Too often what is happening on social media is viewed as carrying far greater weight than actual things happening in the real world. You want to harsh on the Raiders for an ill-conceived tweet? Fine, but then you should also be lauding them 10 times as loudly for their hiring practices and other positions that actually have real impact.

 

And it was still a monumentally stupid tweet.