Mike Shanahan is essentially a slave owner forcing other negros to fight each other

[Bearshomer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tom-joyner-on-rgiii-mike-shanahan-and-django/

 

[ijustposthere]

Honestly, I don't know if players are supposed to play injured or not. When they are pulled by the coach, the player gets criticized. If they stay in and play like hot garbage, the coach gets criticized.

 

[TheWinman]

This is such a tough thing to really grasp on who is right or wrong. Shanahan is coaching a game, he was probably the least informed on the severity of RG3's injury during the game.

 

[onebud34]

What the ****

 

[BearsMod1]

i thought the whole nfl was slave trade?

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Honestly, I don't know if players are supposed to play injured or not. When they are pulled by the coach, the player gets criticized. If they stay in and play like hot garbage, the coach gets criticized.

I'd expect the player to want to play and I'd expect the HC to protect him from himself.

 

[KittiesKorner]

oh ho ho ho ho

 

[Pegger]

Should Shanahan of pulled RG3? Sure.

Should James Andrews of requested more time with RG3 to actually evaluate the injury? Sure.

Should RG3 of actually communicated he was hurt and could no longer help his team win? Sure.

Should Snyder stop running the Redskins like a profit center, open his wallet and fix the field? Sure.

Can't blame it all on Shanahan, but he's a part of the problem. Personally any 4 of those people can be blamed for RG 'knee' staying out there and getting reinjured.

 

[Jester]

Wow, does everything have to boil down to race with some people? I guess so....WTF?

 

[ijustposthere]

I'd expect the player to want to play and I'd expect the HC to protect him from himself.

Same here, but in the end the decision made will get criticized.

 

[ClydeLee]

Same here, but in the end the decision made will get criticized.

Which doesn't really matter since the people criticizing the players are usually numbnuts.

 

[PrideisBears]

There was no winning in that situation like ijustposthere stated

 

[Teddy KGB]

Mike Shanahan is essentially a slave owner forcing other negros to fight each other

Wait, I thought that was Rory?

 

[Thomas31]

Oh boy. Here we go.....

I will not say that Shanahan acted like a "slave owner". That is an EXTREMELY incendiary and explosive comment to make......wow. And of course the response from some whites will be "there black people go bringing up the race card again", (when it's just one person). But I will say that Shanahan is an egomaniac who will do anything to win, including putting his players at risk.

Anyone could see that RGIII was hobbling bad out there. You're a veteran coach. He's a rook. You DON'T listen to a rook in a playoff game telling you he's ok, when you clearly see that he isn't. A perfectly healthy cousins could have come in and ran the offense. Now partially torn LCL and ACL.

Good job Redskins......



BEARS

 

[Warrior Spirit]

There was no winning in that situation like ijustposthere stated

There definitely was in this situation. The story already broke before the game that Shanahan had ignored the doc's advice. When seeing RG3 further aggravated the injury, the decision should have been obvious. You also have a backup that has proven himself capable. Why the **** are you so hesitant to hand him the reigns with a 14 point lead? Seattle did what they should and game planned according to the Griffin injury from there. Not only did Shanahan jeopardize the health and welfare of his franchise QB but he put his team in a bad position.

 

[Stalin828]

It was a bad call to let him play. The only thing that annoys me about the situation is the reaction. So, Shanahan is the devil for letting RG3 play in a playoff game with a partial LCL tear (which in general is less dangerous than an MCL tear in football). Cutler was demonized for not playing in a playoff game on a partial MCL tear. I know, anything to get ratings, but the hypocrisy is ridiculous.

In any event, fucking around with knee ligament injures is stupid. RG3 should have been resting on the bench from the first sign of ligament injuries because it is too easy to injure them further.

 

[Urblock]

Rory can act like a dick but I don't recall anything racist.

 

[TheRivalry]

Thank you tom joyner for demonstrating what I already knew. Black people are at times as dumb as white people when issues of race are discussed. Any meanful discussion about whether or not RG3 should have been playing become meaningless once you've decided to compare slavery with professional football.

 

[Punished]

i thought the whole nfl was slave trade?

Actually the whole world is, most people just don't realize it

 

[Pegger]

Shanahan has already hinted they will be changing the turf to something a little better for the knees.

To me that's the best media distraction. Spend the 500K+ to change the field to fieldturf and people will stop talking about what Shanahan should have done.