Comments on: Phil McConkey takes aim at NFLPA, Drew Brees

By: tkylet

tkylet — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:31:12 +0000

Wow! Drew Brees is greedy and a piece of crap for holding out for money. Money that he earned due to his importance to his team. Anyone would do that. Is he supposed to make less money so you might think he is not greedy. How stupid. Also, Brees has done so much around New Orleans to help those that have lost everything and that is not including all the other national charities he is involved in. What a greedy jerk, huh? He came to New Orleans because Peyton believed in him and after making a trip through one of the heavy hit areas in New Orleans, he and his wife felt that they could do a lot to help the city and he has so that is true. It may not be the only reason but it is one of the reasons. Also, if retired players can’t get the medical attention they need then that is a problem but if they are complaining because their pension isn’t enough to live the life style they want to live then oh well. They should have chose another profession and u guaranty if they did choose another profession they would not be able to negotiate or sue for a bigger pension and that is if they would have a pension at all. There are many things retired players can do to make money after football. It may only pay $100k a year but that is more than a lot of people make especially without a professional college degree. The only time I see where a retired position should be taken care of for life is the president. They just started taking care of them for life. They used to not get paid much money at all and get hardly any expense account. Many presidents were broke after their term was up and to keep them from devaluing such a respected position by lending their name to endorsements to make money to survive, they are now taken care of to keep the position respected and not a joke. These guys are just mad because they didn’t invest their money and they never made the amount players make now. So they now just want a bigger check every month instead of working for it. Guess what, I got into my business too late and now it is fizzling out. If I timed it right I would have made a lot more money. I can’t sue anyone. My timing is wrong and now I have to try something else. Also, I spent money like I was going to keep making a lot of it and now I don’t make what I used to make so I should have invested that money instead of spending like I would always be making it. That is my fault for making those bad decisions. Quit crying and blaming others for your mistakes. Obama got reelected so you will have free medical soon anyway. What more do you need? Sorry for the rant. I am just sick of people thinking society owes them something and I am sick of people really over valuing their self worth. McConkey wants Brees to give millions to him for aports cars and mansions instead of building homes for the people of New Orleans who lost everything and live in FEMA trailers. That is pretty much what he is saying. Pathetic.

By: goodolebaghead

goodolebaghead — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:29:01 +0000

Never seen a ‘dirtbag’ give so much money to charity before. I mean seriously, this guy has given millions upon millions to charities all over the nation.

By: dremmel69

dremmel69 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:17:33 +0000

Okay, let’s try it this way.

Mike Florio is an amazing football mind!

All contributors to profootballtalk.com are wonderfully eloquent football analysts!

Indeed, profootballtalk.com is the premier forum for all things football superhappyfuntimeloveit goodness!

Yet, that does not change the fact that players, past or present do not want a safer game………

By: snaxdsp

snaxdsp — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:47:25 +0000

Phil who? This guy has been bagging groceries for 20 years and all of a sudden has something to say? Shut up and go cut my lawn. For all you Brees haters, you would give anything for him to QB your team

By: kimbo71006

kimbo71006 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:40:07 +0000

kimtrouard: McConkey is the first player to actually talk about taking responsibility.

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How is it taking responsibility when you’re pointing the finger at someone else?

No one forced any of these players to play what is at best a physically dangerous game and they KNEW IT before they signed that zillion dollar contract.

Responsibility rests with the person looking back in the mirror – themselves. They are the ones that chose to take the risk and now they want someone else to pay for their own choices?

This is exactly what is wrong with our children and our country today. A lack of personal responsibility about choices that we make of our own free will.

By: kimbo71006

kimbo71006 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:35:32 +0000

News Flash!

You’re not a fan of Drew Brees if you can’t stand him. Move on, we don’t need ya.

Also – football players get paid millions and millions of dollars to essentially “play a game.” They are aware of the risks of injury to their bodies–bones, joints, ligaments, heads, feet, hands, etc.

I find it utterly amazing that they play the sport, reap the benefits of money and fame and then have the nerve to say – oh but I got hurt and it’s all the NFL’s fault.

Guess what – you have FREE WILL to play football or not – no one is twisting your arm. It’s time that you take responsibility for the career you chose, warts and all.

Just like the rest of us do. Take responsibility for the decisions and choices YOU make.

I agree that it’s all about what I can get in the end. It’s all about the money – always and this is the deepest pocket to dig into.

I’m with Brees on this one.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:02:38 +0000

torontofalcon says:

Drew Brees is the biggest dirtbag in the NFL. All he does is think about him self, and make stupid excuses. Only saints fans like him, that tells you something about the guy.
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I’m not a Saints fan, and I love Brees. So there.

I find McConkey’s rant interesting. Is it purely coincidental that his career was spent with the Giants–whose owner is the biggest supporter of (some say puppeteer of) The Great Roger Goodell Himself Live And In Person–who in turn has had a vendetta going against the Saints?

By: jackbauerqb

jackbauerqb — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:30:40 +0000

I agree with Drew Brees. The NFL could give “some” of these players enough money to get out of debt and $1 Million dollars and in five years the same guys would be up to their ears in debt “asking” for more help.

By: backindasaddle

backindasaddle — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:58:41 +0000

Drew Brees is a huge hypocrite. He is squarely on record expounding liberal/socialist ideology, in essence, he’s a proponent of spending everybody else’s money….yet when it comes to him he holds out for every last nickel, shows total self centeredness, and then gets really stingy with his own bank account. He’s a fraud.

By: nygiants24

nygiants24 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:50:12 +0000

Nothinbutathang, I guess you werent watching that super bowl too closely. McConkey caught a TD pass. And Bree’s is a phony. He lets everyone believe he signed with the Saints to save NO after Katrina. He only went there because that was his best offer after Miami turned him down.

By: torontofalcon

torontofalcon — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:27:26 +0000

Drew Brees is the biggest dirtbag in the NFL. All he does is think about him self, and make stupid excuses. Only saints fans like him, that tells you something about the guy.

By: nothinbutathang

nothinbutathang — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:58:55 +0000

Who is Phil McConkey? I watched that superbowl, couldn’t tell you if he was on the field, or holding a water bucket on the sideline.

By: jarhead60

jarhead60 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:21:52 +0000

I agree with “4thqtrsaint”

Does the union have any money to pay a settlement?

By: ampats

ampats — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:17:26 +0000

kimtrouard and pro-Brees commentors,

Do you have any understanding what the strike in 1987 was about? Do you realize that there was no such thing as free agency? The game has changed tremendously as a result of these players actions.

By: cags777

cags777 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:14:05 +0000

Oh please, Brees supporters. You and I know that if an opposing player took out Brees on a play, Brees would come back and try suing the NFL over player safety issues while the NFLPA would defend the opposing player. Now, I don’t doubt some truth as to former players making bad decisions. But McConkey is right on the money calling Brees out for his hypocrisy, along with the hypocrisy of the NFLPA.

By: 4thqtrsaint

4thqtrsaint — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:07:39 +0000

Like him or not, Brees is 100% right. Its not the fault of any current player or anyone else that these guys made bad life decisions. I’ve made them too. I blame nobody but me.
There are players playing right now that are dead broke or near broke. Michael Vick went broke by making bad decisions.
The guys that need to get paid from injury is one thing. What they do with their money is something else.

By: yssupasigninnamnotyep

yssupasigninnamnotyep — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:02:51 +0000

Brees is such a no-class punk…wish someone would put a bounty on him. Oh wait…

By: coseybedaman

coseybedaman — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:55:17 +0000

The retired players should not be poor, brain damaged, and committing suicide. I am sorry, but no matter how you want to look at it that is wrong. The NFL should be taking care of these players, and it would be relatively easy to do so with the amount of money the league generates. Instead of raising ticket prices $5 to pay for new luxury boxes, how about they raise the tickets $5 and give it to all the retired players. They are going to raise them anyway, Id like to see it go to a good cause at least. Its all about greed, nothing more

By: eustus

eustus — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:54:25 +0000

Once you are a member of the NFLPA, you’re a member for life? That sounds odd to me. Normally, once you stop paying dues (which you usually do when you retire), you lose your membership in the union.

I don’t think former players are unionized so suing the union shouldn’t be an issue.

By: thejohnsmith1122

thejohnsmith1122 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:52:14 +0000

I agree with McConkey…just because I want to see the NFLPA get sued. That aside, I disagree with McConkey for calling Brees out. Brees is completely correct in what he said about players not spending responsibly.

Millionares or average joe, we all become bankrupt the same way…by spending more money than we make.

By: bigjdve

bigjdve — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:51:25 +0000

kimtrouard: McConkey is the first player to actually talk about taking responsibility.

By: realdealsteel

realdealsteel — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:50:24 +0000

Phil Mcconkey was a nothing player who benefited from playing with some of the best offensive lines in football.

The only way that McConkey played was because he washed the balls (balls being testicles) of Bill Parcell’s that Parcell let him play. McConkey had little to no talent and was basically a team joke. He was the NFL’s answer to “Rudy.”

McConkey needs to shut his mouth and thank the heavens that he has an NFL pension because McConkey had no right to even be in the league.

McConkey was nothing but a jock holder for the real players on that team. Shut up McConkey!!

By: randolph32

randolph32 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:42:11 +0000

The only thing I like about Ditka anymore is his support of the old, retired player who doesn’t have a pot to pea in or a window to throw it out….

By: biggregg44

biggregg44 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:38:58 +0000

Brees is right, But so is Phil. Both sides are at fault with some of these issues. Firing shots back and forth through the media will not benefit either side

By: ccjcsr

ccjcsr — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:35:50 +0000

Phil makes these comments as Drew Brees just collected his W-2 where it shows he made 40 mill this yr!

By: tcostant

tcostant — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:34:38 +0000

Ironicly the BFLPA told players to take the pension early because football players die earlier than the rest of population. No kidding…

By: moagecu

moagecu — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:34:06 +0000

It’s nice to see someone call drew out, besides the many fans that can’t stand him anymore.

By: puckthefatriots

puckthefatriots — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:32:34 +0000

Thank you McConkey. Drew Brees is lost in his stardom. Completely out of touch with real world.

By: dat504

dat504 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:30:02 +0000

Yeah, it’s all Drew’s fault. It has nothing to do with marrying a groupie or investing in condos on the moon.

By: franktherat96

franktherat96 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:27:07 +0000

Brees is 100% right!

The truth must hurt Phil. Brees is right. So many players, even players today make bad decisions and want someone to bail them out. The only people that would be hurt by these comments are those that it hits home with.