John Saunders 'parting shots' on Sports Reporters: Character Issues in NFL

[Dpantherman]

damnit embed request. Watch anyway please, I recommend it. ESPN screws me again!!!

[Lumps]

pwned

[DaCityKats]

i watched this earlier today and he is correct. you mean guys cant make mistakes when they are 18-22 years of age but old grown men can? double standard.

[Ruff]

Good segment.

I really like Sports Reporters.

[bes628]

I didn't listen, but I came in here just to say John Saunders can rot in hell.

[Millions]

Hate when people judge these guys like its impossible to learn from mistakes & mature.

[DaCityKats]

whoa somebodies got beef? the sports reporters is one of the best shows on espn.

[Brooklyn Bully]

While I agree 100% that Cam got WAY too much heat last year and before the draft and even to this very day, Saunder's argument is invalid IF guys like Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, and Vrabel had issues...when they were young. If so, you can use the argument that once a problem always a problem. But I also 100% believe that kids like Newton and Mallet can easily grow up and become men with no flaws. Let's hope the latter happens for our guy.

[King Taharqa]

Saunders is dead on. I think that was what was most dissappointing about this process. Watching adults and old people be so venemous towards these young kids that they knew very little about. For people to have already formed opinions and put these guys in a box already is ignorant. I think sometimes people either forget or dont care that these were student athletes and were not professionals.

[Awesomeness!!]

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[mav1234]

uhh. most character concern guys drop in the draft but still get drafted. cam newton didn't even drop at all. Mallett dropped, sure, but he still got drafted and I personally think he had some football-related questions, too.

guys drop for character reasons but still get drafted (which is basically finding a job). Likewise, many NFL players drop for character reasons as pros (as in some teams trade them or won't touch them) but can usually find jobs.

certainly there are double standards between positions but I don't see that big of one between pros and college.

[Davidson Deac II]

Don't like Sports Reporters at all, since 90% of what they cover is sports in the Northeast or Dallas/Lakers/. But I do agree with him. I know that I did far worse things than some of those guys did, and did change a lot when I got older.

[monstercat]

God knows I'm a completely different person than I was at 18. Urinating in public? Did it. DUI? Happened even before I turned 18, and I got away with drinking and driving more times than I care to think about, yet I'm not an alcoholic and wouldn't even dream of drinking and driving now. Smoking weed...did it many times when I was young and dumb. Stealing? Who here hasn't stolen something from work? Cheated on a test? Ditto, and I would be willing to bet that plenty of NFL football players either cheated or were graded with a wink and a big ole curve in college.

OF course, I have never been paid to play football, but I hear it happens a lot in the NFL...like 100% of the time, so who the hell cares?

[mav1234]

"stealing" something from work... so you walked out with a coworkers computer, monstercat? haha

the thing is that Cam's grown since he did the poo he did, so that is why he got picked #1... not because the poo he did wasn't a big deal.