Eugene Robinson tells team to not make his mistake

[Kevin Greene]

29 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

It was the NFL Man of the Year award.

The Falcons of that time looked at Eugene a lot like the Panthers now look at Thomas Davis.

If you can imagine Thomas Davis being arrested for trying to pick up a prostitute, that's how shocking this story was.

We're talking Panthers versus Falcons. So, no. I feel you're insulting Thomas Davis.

[bigskypanthersguy]

2 hours ago, Kevin Greene said:

We're talking Panthers versus Falcons. So, no. I feel you're insulting Thomas Davis.

 

[RelaxImaPro]

7 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

It was the NFL Man of the Year award.

The Falcons of that time looked at Eugene a lot like the Panthers now look at Thomas Davis.

If you can imagine Thomas Davis being arrested for trying to pick up a prostitute, that's how shocking this story was.

He had been a Falcon for barely a year when that happened... so no, I sincerely doubt that.  It was shocking to them for sure, but no where near the same level it would be for us if it happened to Thomas Davis.

[TN05]

8 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

It was the NFL Man of the Year award.

The Falcons of that time looked at Eugene a lot like the Panthers now look at Thomas Davis.

If you can imagine Thomas Davis being arrested for trying to pick up a prostitute, that's how shocking this story was.

Not the Man of the Year award. He got the Bart Starr award. The Man of the Year award is decided by a panel of judges - the Bart Starr award is decided by the players themselves (in a similar manner to Pro bowl voting). It also usually has a different winner than the Man of the Year award - last year, Peyton Manning won it; this year, Thomas Davis won it.

[TN05]

28 minutes ago, RelaxImaPro said:

He had been a Falcon for barely a year when that happened... so no, I sincerely doubt that.  It was shocking to them for sure, but no where near the same level it would be for us if it happened to Thomas Davis.

It's obviously not the same in terms of long-standing players, but pretty much everyone who has played with or met Eugene thinks he is a great guy.

[electro's horse]

Eugene Robinson was basically on a career trajectory to be a FOX/CBS in studio guy. 

instead he became a Panthers color guy.

[RelaxImaPro]

7 minutes ago, TN05 said:

It's obviously not the same in terms of long-standing players, but pretty much everyone who has played with or met Eugene thinks he is a great guy.

Oh I know Eugene is a great guy, I'm not disputing that.  I'm just saying the weight of TD doing that to us, who is a career Panther, a Panther great and will likely have a statue outside the stadium at some point would be way more crushing to us than Eugene doing it to the Falcons when it was his first year with the team.  It'd be more like Charles Tillman doing it to us.

[truthjuice]

I take it our guys all behaved and made it back by curfew. 

[Mr. Scot]

47 minutes ago, RelaxImaPro said:

He had been a Falcon for barely a year when that happened... so no, I sincerely doubt that.  It was shocking to them for sure, but no where near the same level it would be for us if it happened to Thomas Davis.

Eugenr had built that reputation even before he got there.

One of their players at the time said he was sure they'd lose now since one of their beat leaders had gone and screwed up.