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Tony Dungy wouldn't have taken Michael Sam

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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    Looks like the thought police win again.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    He might have a bit more credibility if he hadn't coached Marvin Harrison for years. Coaching a gay player should be easier than coaching a murderer. IMHO.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    allpurpleallgold said:

    He might have a bit more credibility if he hadn't coached Marvin Harrison for years. Coaching a gay player should be easier than coaching a murderer. IMHO.

    Was there a media circus surrounding Harrison?


    I think that's what Dungy was getting at here.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,549 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited July 2014
    allpurpleallgold said:

    He might have a bit more credibility if he hadn't coached Marvin Harrison for years. Coaching a gay player should be easier than coaching a murderer. IMHO.

    A future hall of fame WR and a guy who hopefully can be a situational pass rusher. There lies the difference.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    allpurpleallgold said:

    He might have a bit more credibility if he hadn't coached Marvin Harrison for years. Coaching a gay player should be easier than coaching a murderer. IMHO.

    Lol yes because Marvin Harrison came out before the draft and said "I have killed somebody". Great comparison.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    CuntWaffle said:

    allpurpleallgold said:

    He might have a bit more credibility if he hadn't coached Marvin Harrison for years. Coaching a gay player should be easier than coaching a murderer. IMHO.

    Lol yes because Marvin Harrison came out before the draft and said "I have killed somebody". Great comparison.
    That would have been courageous if he did...
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    What Dungy said in the follow-up makes sense to me. You don't want OWN cameras hovering around training camp.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,549 Swaye's Wigwam
    Now Dungy is sticking his foot in his mouth. I initially sided with him because it's common sense that a pro football organization doesn't want a media circus around a 7th round pick. In his follow comments, he admits he doesn't agree with Sam's lifestyle. I would have to think that his beliefs played a part in his comments. If I was Sam and Dungy reached out, I'd tell him to fuck off.


    http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/07/23/tony-dungy-michael-sam-comments
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Now Dungy is sticking his foot in his mouth. I initially sided with him because it's common sense that a pro football organization doesn't want a media circus around a 7th round pick. In his follow comments, he admits he doesn't agree with Sam's lifestyle. I would have to think that his beliefs played a part in his comments. If I was Sam and Dungy reached out, I'd tell him to fuck off.


    http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/07/23/tony-dungy-michael-sam-comments

    "I was not asked whether his sexual orientation should play a part in the evaluation process. It should not."

    People know he is a devout Christian so him not agreeing with the lifestyle was pretty much already assumed with the outrage.

    Again the point is he was asked a question whether he would draft him, and he gave his honest answer. If he would have said "no comment" their still would have been an outrage. So his only angle would to blatantly lie.

    I do agree that the follow up interviews to clarify his comments usually just end up hurting the person more and should probably just refuse to do them.... but he would eventually get cornered by some member of the media sooner or later and would have to answer.

    Sam had a shitty combine and pre draft work outs and dropped miserably down the ranks of draft charts because of that. So now the question is a 6th/7th round talent who will get more media coverage than maybe only Johnny Manziel worth it? Rams thought so, good for them. Maybe Sam turns out to be a fantastic NFL player... then a lot of teams who thought about drafting him but also wanted to avoid the distractions (and if you believe for one second that a bunch of teams didn't do this you are either extremely naive or just a fucking moron) will get a big slap in the face.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Dungy's comments have fueled the fire and will create more potential distractions for the Rams.

    As I stated before, Dungy's got a platform to express his opinions and he's going to use it. Nothing wrong about that. A more savvy individual would have stepped around the Sam issue and still made his point about dealing with off the field distractions.
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