Marshawn Lynch fines

[D. Bergin]

I'd take Marshawn on my team in a heartbeat. I love the guy. Plenty of athletes are media whores and like to play up their image and speak to the press as much as possible.

The ones that aren't. Leave them alone if they want to be left alone. Pretty sure Marshawn was recruited for his athletic skills.....not his media skills.

NFL is just making a martyr out of the guy. For those that say "just follow the company line and do what you're told, you're making a lot of money".........is not a way of thinking everybody agrees with.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

NFL is just making a martyr out of the guy. For those that say "just follow the company line and do what you're told, you're making a lot of money".........is not a way of thinking everybody agrees with.

I think you're talking to a straw man here, Dave. No one said that - they said that it's written into his contract, so just do it. He could have spoken for his 5 minute requirement while the "media whores" as you call them, did the full 30 or so. He could have kept it short. He could have fulfilled his contract with no pain. Instead, Marshawn became the media whore - HE is the one who made himself into a martyr. The media is loving it - they have a story. Only the NFL is pissed, and for them it's just a matter of being able to give themselves a crotch grab...kind of ironic, actually.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I think you're talking to a straw man here, Dave. No one said that - they said that it's written into his contract, so just do it. He could have spoken for his 5 minute requirement while the "media whores" as you call them, did the full 30 or so. He could have kept it short. He could have fulfilled his contract with no pain. Instead, Marshawn became the media whore - HE is the one who made himself into a martyr. The media is loving it - they have a story. Only the NFL is pissed, and for them it's just a matter of being able to give themselves a crotch grab...kind of ironic, actually.

Well apparently he disagrees with a blanket clause in his contract (or the NFLPA contract), that he didn't have much of a choice in signing or being a part of if he wanted to drag himself out of the poverty he grew up in.

These guys are basically kids, pulled out of college and thrown into a world foreign to them. Thrown a lot of money and told to grow up and toe the line. That some of them would develop individual personalities that questioned certain things as they got older, should not be a shocker.

I Just saw an E60 episode on Marshawn. He did the crotch grab thingy at the end of a TD run against the Saints in the 2011 Playoffs. Nobody seemed to give a crap then............but now all of a sudden, people are offended.

It's all silly. Most of the drama the NFL creates for itself is fairly silly.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Well apparently he disagrees with a blanket clause in his contract (or the NFLPA contract), that he didn't have much of a choice in signing or being a part of if he wanted to drag himself out of the poverty he grew up in.

That's true, and now he can rebel against it, which I think he should. But he's doing so in a very childish way.