Pauser:
Sounds like you might not have caught the TWO interviews (these weren't short comments) and follow up on Twitter with the Retweets from Gore and Coach Boyko.
The Lions had Manny lined up for a TSN 1040 the next day with the MOJ where they played his comments in full.
Moj asked him about it after he played the tape and he doubled down on them. Then Moj again said he wanted to give him every chance to back track but he chose not to.
You raise a good point about Sherman and here's what the Seattle coach did:
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Pete Carroll didn't like Sherman's rant vs. Crabtree yet as the TSN 1040 crew question - where were the Lions on this one? Why didn't the Lions get to him before he doubled down on this rant re: the Als? Their questions - and they echo mine and I am sure any others who understand that if you lose you should be looking in the freaking mirror not trashing the guys who won!
As Manny (Rick Moffat of TSN radio gets credit for saying that Manny put the ARSE back in Arceneaux - so I do know his name.First, Pete Carroll took to the mic Monday and said that Richard Sherman understood why Sunday's highly publicized rant at Michael Crabtree was a bad thing for the Seahawks.
Then Sherman reportedly took to his cell phone to confirm he received his coach's message.
Carroll said he pulled Sherman aside earlier Monday and made sure his fiery cornerback understood that his postgame rant against Crabtree, the San Francisco receiver, was overshadowing the Seattle Seahawks reaching their second Super Bowl in franchise history. And the Seahawks coach said Sherman seemed to get the message.
"He was really clear that the last thing he wanted to do was take something away from our team, what we had accomplished," Carroll said.
Later in the day, ESPN reported that Sherman texted reporter Ed Werder with a personal apology for Crabtree. The text reportedly read:
"I apologize for attacking an individual and taking the attention away from the fantastic game by my teammates ... That was not my intent."
Here's the follow up scenario for next week's game vs the Als:
> Team trending in the tank heads to MTL and the storyline is the Manny Show as neither he nor the Lions nor his team mates have said this is wrong.
> If I were the Lions HC I'd be pissed off that this clown did this after quitting on the play. I'd be pissed at Boyko and Gore for their retweets supporting not him - but his statements.
Quite frankly this is the closest I've come to tossing in the towel in support of this team given their attitude and I sat (often alone) as an ST holder during the down years when I couldn't give my ticket away and I'd have a lot of space there.
There is clearly major problems as the media stories suggest and these guys are around this team.
I can stand losing if everyone is doing their jobs - coaches and players.
But I can't stomach someone yapping off about a team that just won the game. If they're so bad dude how come you lost? While in the world of Manny and Gore it's someone else's fault.
No accountability in this side at all.