Comments on: Maurice Jones-Drew: NFL wants players to be robots

By: buccaboo

buccaboo — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:10:17 +0000

The NFL under Goodell is getting ridiculous. He is so far left that his head can’t turn right.

HAHAHA Did you know his wife is a Fox News Channel Exec?? Or was?

By: granadafan

granadafan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:30:50 +0000

A smack on the head for the first armchair sociologist who says this is racism.

By: mikebrownmakesmefrown

mikebrownmakesmefrown — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:57:22 +0000

I agree 100% Goodell is ruining the NFL more and more on a daily basis. Why is he trying to get everyone to be softies like the Colts. Remember in 2002 or 2003 the MNF against the Ravens and Steelers. I believe ESPN and everyone else hyped up all the trash taking before that game. If I remember correctly there was a 10-15 minute clip of all the quotes and threats that led up to that game. Goodell please resign before you ruin the game beyond repair.

By: FinFan68

FinFan68 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:50:41 +0000

What does trash talking have to do with football…other than sometimes making the league and those associated with it look bad? It doesn’t. Games are won and lost on the field. Actual game preparation helps but trash talking doesn’t really add anything to the game. A little good-natured trash talking doesn’t hurt and that is not what the league is targeting. They are targeting the ridiculous threats to injure and the crass vulgarity (Cromartie, and others) that tarnishes the brand. If all you have is trash talk then you don’t have anything at all. The Welker/Mangold stuff was fine. The Cromartie comments and the Sharper/Shiancoe garbage was not. There are issues that a player would have a legitimate right to complain about but this is not one of them.

By: linemoose1

linemoose1 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:44:50 +0000

That’s right trash talk is just that talk …..u can’t expect these millionaire friends on each team to really hate each other it would hurt there profit margins!!in tatums day opposing players really hated each other and that made for passionate football!

By: bluvayner

bluvayner — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:40:50 +0000

That’s a riot! Grew up in the Tatum era, yet he wasn’t even born when Tatum retired.

Personally, I grew up in Boston during the Cy Young era.

By: JakeDSnake

JakeDSnake — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:38:30 +0000

You can tell MJD grew up a Raiders fan: he has trouble with the Raiders timeline. Raiders fan think the Raiders won a SB a whole lot more recently than 27 years ago (before MJD was born). It’s not surprising a Raider fan born in 1985 thinks he was around for a guy who retired in 1980.

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:05:12 +0000

“Yeah, Mo, robots. We gonna call you R2D2, you little fire hydrant. Ha, ha, ha,”.

By: footballer43

footballer43 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:00:41 +0000

As odd as it sounds the NFL is ruining the NFL. These new rules are over top. I know they are attempting to protect the players but it is still smash mouth football!

By: frankvzappa

frankvzappa — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:41:29 +0000

its time to look at the big picture as it relates to this article…over in the NBA, commissioner David Stern (member of the neo-nazi globalist US policy making CFR (who are in far more control than any president) is making refs dole out technicals if the players say even one word to them…this, like the NFL’s attempt to turn players into robots, is part of a much larger agenda…they are trying to turn our entire society into unquestioning, unthinking robots who serve the fascist surveillance state like good robots…any questioning of authority will not be tolerated, even when that authority is a bunch of nazis who have taken over your country in order to destroy it and merge it with the global labor pool as the one world fascist government run by international bankers comes into existence…get ready for your national id cards, be ready to show your papers on every street corner and transportation station…get ready for TSA fondling you to enter a grocery store, and i hope you dont mind this barcode on your wrist, because otherwise you cant eat…how bout we try and WAKE UP…our athletes and celebrities are the ones who should using their fame to speak out against the nazification of this country, and soon after, the world…

By: bodybaggame

bodybaggame — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:38:59 +0000

Wait….So he says he grew up in the Bay area in the Jack Tatum era, but Tatum retired 5 years before he was born? You, seriously can’t make this stuff up…Too funny

By: mornelithe

mornelithe — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:30:43 +0000

There’s a line between trash talk and simply running your mouth when you really have nothing to run your mouth over.

The team the Jets played earlier in the year, is not the team they were dominated by in the latter. For people who railed against how Brady learned the game, they seem to be wasting a whole lot of time in front of a microphone, instead of watching the plethora of film of where they went wrong last time.

The field is where things are decided, trash talk outside is meaningless and unnecessary hype to a game that’s already pretty important for both franchises.

By: ballergac

ballergac — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:29:20 +0000

Really? MOST exciting two days of football EVER? No. But exciting yes. But I do agree with MJD to a point, trash talk is ok but I think the language of the talk is what the NFL is trying to cut down on. Think Ocho Cinco, how entertaining it is when he trash talks, he’s not acting like he’s going to kill someone. At the end of the day, it’s A GAME. You win some, you lose some. Play fair, hard, leave it all on the field and that’s it. There’s no place for F bombs regarding other players, teams etc. In the adult world we are use to it, but remember children and young teenage high school or college players watch and tune into these same headlines and the message shouldn’t be it’s okay to act this way. So the NFL is right to address it.

By: cliverush

cliverush — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:17:12 +0000

Bart Scott, in a public verbal threat against a member of another team, would be libel to criminal charges if this was done on the street. What allows these thugs to get away with this behavior? Fans, that’s who. Fans in the media, the league office or just about anywhere. This anti-social behavior comes at a time when players are looking to involve the Congress in settling the NFLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Watch out as this will give a forum to their more liberal brothers and sisters in the room who just might want to prosecute for acts on the field after public threats. Bart Scott could end up in jail, where many Jet fans can welcome him.

By: spamrok

spamrok — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:09:03 +0000

“And I’ll note that Tatum retired five years before Jones-Drew was born.”
Haha!!! But somehow you grew up during the tatum era. MJD, we don’t want you to act like robots. Just adults. You know, like the rest of the world.

By: commoncents

commoncents — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:56:47 +0000

Goodell is the worst pretender of a comissioner that the NFL has ever had. It’s all about image, with no substance. Goodell needs to go.

By: galvestontexans

galvestontexans — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:50:19 +0000

Wonders how long it will be before Goodell turns the NFL in to flag football

By: SpartaChris

SpartaChris — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:42:07 +0000

No, MJD, the NFL doesn’t want you to be emotionless robots. What they want you to do is appear to have an element of class away from the field. Publicly calling a guy an “-Effing A-Hole” to reporters and threatening physical harm isn’t exactly what the league has in mind when it comes to representing the brand well.

By: bigbabies

bigbabies — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:39:24 +0000

We must adhere to the rules if we want to suckle from the power teat!

The NFL under Goodell is getting ridiculous. He is so far left that his head can’t turn right.

By: silentparrot

silentparrot — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:34:20 +0000

I’d like for robots to be players. Maybe the UFL should try that.

By: redrew

redrew — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:26:33 +0000

Tatum played until 1980. M J Drew was born in 1985. Now you can see why the NFL won’t all players to speak.

By: jgagnon10

jgagnon10 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:23:30 +0000

MJD is right goodell is a joke always has been since the pacman days…..if only ppl realised it then and weren’t always saying that “Goodell is cleaning up the league blah blah blah….” well i hope you all are happy with what you wished for cuz now he’s cleaning up the league….completely cleaning every aspect of what makes football good and throwing it away

By: goodjet

goodjet — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:16:17 +0000

I Hate this new (wussy ass) NFL —- I Hate Roger Goodell — I Hate all the Stupid crackdowns — I Hate Roger Goodell — I hate all the Dumb-Ass fines — I Hate Roger Goodell — And not only that — I also really do Hate Roger Goodell — Hate him!!!!

By: skunkgoosefly

skunkgoosefly — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:13:47 +0000

The League is turning the game into all business and no fun. I like the trash talking, on and off the field. I think it shows they’re focused and ready to do some damage to the other team. I want tuff and rugged players out there with emotion. Not robots.

By: Moonman

Moonman — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:12:45 +0000

Also, I would like to note that I would prefer the NFL to use robots going forward. Since robots have no souls, we can stop this nonsensical fining policy for head to head collisions. Football can go back to being the violent, menacing fun it’s always been. Thanks to MJD for the idea.

By: buccaboo

buccaboo — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:10:14 +0000

I agree. No celebration, no trash talk, no big hits. When you hear a player speak, they say the same things as any other player. Don’t say anything negative and always respect your opponent.
THIS IS A BLOOD SPORT FOR GOD’S SAKE!!
I think football is becoming tennis!

By: neverend1

neverend1 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:09:13 +0000

“nfl is changing”

can someone spread some light on this? players have never talked trash before and suddenly the league is going through some special phase that will increase the ratings with as high as they are?

By: joefromphilly

joefromphilly — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:08:34 +0000

Who cares if YOU are queasy? There was absolutely no reason to cram your irrelevant opinion in there

By: pervyharvin

pervyharvin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:07:57 +0000

Can we have another Brett Favre story?

By: scytherius

scytherius — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:07:56 +0000

He is absolutely 100% correct. A bunch of old, white billionaires who, for the most part, know NOTHING about this great game are gonna destroy it. Just wait til they lock the players out.