Bob McNair has pissed off players around the NFL

[Elusive6thRing]

Said "We cani't let the inmates run the asylum" Deandre Hopkins is missing practice.

 

[BoysfanfromCanada]

Such a dumb thing to say on so many levels. Poorly worded for one, second, these "inmates" are why your team is worth anything. This league is nothing without the players (ask Series A in Italy, the soccer league there)

 

[blindzebra]

Said "We cani't let the inmates run the asylum" Deandre Hopkins is missing practice.

He said prison not asylum which is even worse.

 

[dwreck27]

I get what he means but he used the worse choice of words

 

[BlueStar22]

I don't get what he says. What these owners misunderstand is that they are partners with the players. They don't own the players. It's only going to get worse and I'm here for it.

 

[Risen Star]

It's a metaphor. He wasn't calling the players inmates and he wasn't calling his own franchise a prison. Anybody who doesn't know this is a complete and total victim mentality moron.

Goodell is to blame for all of this nonsense. He appeased this BS and it has gotten out of hand.

 

[Risen Star]

I don't get what he says. What these owners misunderstand is that they are partners with the players. They don't own the players. It's only going to get worse and I'm here for it.

The owners are not partners with the players. Players come and go. Not a single player in the league today will still be there in 20 years. Owners will. Players are spare parts. The owners have the power. In a real power struggle between the two the players will fold long before the owners ever would.

 

[Risen Star]

When I heard about Hopkins missing practice because of something McNair said I stupidly thought he must have really said something way over the line. Then I saw the quote and it just reminded me of how much we've deteriorated as a society. This is laughably stupid.

 

[jrumann59]

When I heard about Hopkins missing practice because of something McNair said I stupidly thought he must have really said something way over the line. Then I saw the quote and it just reminded me of how much we've deteriorated as a society. This is laughably stupid.

Reminds me of the line "you people" in Tropic Thunder. Its an old saying. Should he have chosen better words as it pertains to the situation, yes, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he had no malicious intent when he said the words. Either way he was trying to say that the players are not running the show, he writes the checks, its his team(company), its his rules.

 

[revospeed]

NFL players should be paid millions of dollars to put up with the hateful diatribe that Bob McNair and his ilk spew.

 

[DejectedFan1996]

He said prison not asylum which is even worse.

Exactly.

Hope he never hears the end of this. Idiot.

 

[haleyrules]

It's an old saying and his remarks had no hidden meaning. I have heard that expression a 1000 times. This little media drama amounts to nothing.

 

[Section446]

He's not wrong.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It's a metaphor. He wasn't calling the players inmates and he wasn't calling his own franchise a prison. Anybody who doesn't know this is a complete and total victim mentality moron.

Goodell is to blame for all of this nonsense. He appeased this BS and it has gotten out of hand.

Exactly. I will say that typically the phrase I've heard is 'the inmates running the asylum', but I have heard 'Inmates running the prison.' Although I grew up around a lot of people that worked for the local prison.

The point is that with all of the important stuff that the players need to worry about, to put this quote on the same level of outrage is indicative of why the player's union is where it is today.





YR

 

[Mountaineerfan]

If they don’t like it go to Canada and see how much money you make.

 

[Sydla]

It's a figure of speech that is used all the time.

I have been on the sides of the players' here all along but this is just an overreaction and faux outrage. This is the type of stuff that undermines what they are trying to accomplish because this makes them look hypersensitive and petty.

 

[Nightman]

It's a metaphor. He wasn't calling the players inmates and he wasn't calling his own franchise a prison. Anybody who doesn't know this is a complete and total victim mentality moron.

Goodell is to blame for all of this nonsense. He appeased this BS and it has gotten out of hand.

100%

Supposed to be tough guy, warrior athletes but they can't handle a metaphor or the fact they aren't the Boss...... they are well paid employees but they are still just employees......

the NFL will go on without Deandre Hopkins or Duane Brown....... it is still going on without JJ Watt and Aaron Rodgers and Tony Romo

 

[dogunwo]

It's a figure of speech that is used all the time.

I have been on the sides of the players' here all along but this is just an overreaction and faux outrage. This is the type of stuff that undermines what they are trying to accomplish because this makes them look hypersensitive and petty.

No, the expression is inmates running the asylum. "Prison" makes it coded language. You don't get to decide who gets offended or not.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

No, the expression is inmates running the asylum. "Prison" makes it coded language. You don't get to decide who gets offended or not.

I've heard people use prison in place of asylum many times.

In fact when the word inmate is used it is usually associated with prisoners.



YR

 

[TheDude]

It's a metaphor. He wasn't calling the players inmates and he wasn't calling his own franchise a prison. Anybody who doesn't know this is a complete and total victim mentality moron.

Goodell is to blame for all of this nonsense. He appeased this BS and it has gotten out of hand.

Maybe we are on the downward life cycle of the species.