One Hawks player told me he found out Lloyd Pierce was fired from Twitter. There was no heads up.
Pierce coached the team in practice today in Miami.
Lunes, Marso 1, 2021
[Kirschner] One Hawks player told me he found out Lloyd Pierce was fired from Twitter. There was no heads up. Pierce coached the team in practice today in Miami.
[Chandler Jones] Also feel bad for my guy RW3 lol
https://twitter.com/chanjones55/status/1366457502036992001?s=20
[Rapoport] The Washington Football Team is expected to part ways with QB Alex Smith in the coming days, sources tell me and @KimJonesSports. The AP Comeback Player of the Year has said he still wants to play, and at age 36 may have a chance to do so.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1366407556525096964?s=09
[King] Have the Bears emerged as favorites to potentially land Russell Wilson? “TE Jimmy Graham is a good friend of Wilson’s, and he’s told him good things about the team and the city. Wilson loves the sporting zeal of the city, the love for the Bears... I think he loves the city.”
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Blast from the Past: "The Greatest CB NOT in the Hall of Fame" Ken "The Rattler" Riley
Welcome back to the 5 minute time killer series of players that you loved, supported, and thought maybe didn't get enough credit throughout or after their playing career.
Ok so Ken Riley. Have you heard of him? If you're under 30 and not a Bengals fan, chances are you haven't. When I say he is the greatest CB to not be in the Hall of Fame, it's true. Hell you could even say he is the greatest PLAYER to not be in the Hall. Let me break down for you:
Ken Riley came out of tiny HBCU, Florida A&M in 1969. Drafted in the 6th round and 135th overall to the Bengals.
Coming out of college, Riley was just under 6 foot, standing in at 5'11" and weighing 181 pounds. Typically in this era, I'm not sure why, but I always think of massive secondary players, huge shoulder pads, a two bar facemask, and stick'em. So when I saw his physicals, I thought undersized for the time he played in. Did that matter to Riley?
Short answer: Hell no.
Long answer: Dude was a baller. While at Florida A&M, Riley (a star QB) led the Rattlers to a 23-7 record and 3 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles. In addition to being a skilled athlete, Riley also excelled academically. He earned his team's scholastic award and a Rhodes Scholar candidacy. In 1977, Riley was enshrined in Florida A&M's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Paul Brown selected Riley in the 6th round of the 1969 Common Draft and converted him to CB in training camp. This was the 2nd to last year before the AFL-NFL merger.
At the time Riley was drafted, there were no black starting quarterbacks in the league, hence the position swap.
He made an immediate impact his rookie year. He made his first interception in his fifth game, doing so against the Broncos. He would have four interceptions in the final five games for the Bengals.In nine starts, Riley had four interceptions while returning 14 kicks for 334 yards with two receptions for 15 yards.
Ok not bad. But it gets oh so much better.
For 1970, Riley did not have an interception in his first 11 games. However, he broke the drought against San Diego and had four interceptions in the last three games of the year, including his first two-interception game in the season finale against the Patriots.
He kept improving during his tenure, gaining respect amongst his peers and teammates, but rarely on the national stage. That changed in 1975 when he picked off 6 ints, going on a 5 game int streak and recording his first pick-6 and an All-Pro nod.
This guy always got interceptions. Highest total being 9 in 1976 and 8 in his last year in 1983.
Career totals: 65 interceptions (4th All-Time at the time of retirement), 596 return yards, 5 touchdowns, 18 fumble recoveries, 96 fumble return yards, 334 kickoff return yards, and 15 receiving yards and a 3x All-Pro.
So why didn't he get more attention? First of all, he played for a franchise that wasn't the Steelers, Raiders, Cowboys, Packers, or 49ers during this era.
It seems like everyone from those teams got in and got more attention on the national stage.
Second of all, the competition he was going up against was stacked. Willie Brown, Mel Blount, Roger Wehrli, and Mike Haynes. (Probably more names I'm forgetting)
Oh and fellow teammate Lemar Parrish got to pro-bowls before Riley predominantly due to his flashy kick off and punt returns.
After retiring as a player, Riley spent two seasons as an assistant with the Green Bay Packers before taking over as coach at FAMU, where he went 48-39-2 from 1986-93. He won two Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles and was a two-time MEAC coach of the year. He took over as athletic director from 1994-2002. During those years, the Rattlers won 35 MEAC championships in 11 total sports.
For a man who had been elected to everything from the Black College Football Hall of Fame to his hometown Polk County Hall of Fame, Riley, like his supporters, had no answers.
"People ask why I'm not in and I say I don't know," Riley told Bengals.com last season. "I'm really embarrassed by it because I've got my high school petitioning. The county commissioners petitioning. I appreciate it, but it's embarrassing. I'm not like that. I guess I just didn't get the exposure."
I could go on and on, but if you're not convinced by now the name Ken Riley should be in the HoF, then nothing will.
Teammate Louis Breedan, a fellow Bengal Great, asked,, "How great is that? How great is it that he had 65 interceptions at a position he never played until he got to the NFL? That's how frickin' good Ken Riley was."
Tragically, Riley will not see himself enshrined as he passed away last year from cardiac arrest.
Full disclosure, I am not good at writing about skill positions. I played on the offensive/defensive line in my playing days, but I did my best to give Riley the credit he deserves. (Also on mobile, typing with a thumb, and holding my newborn so...shits hard at times.)
Thank you so much for reading this shit post in a unbearably boring off season. If you got a player you want me to write about, I have some time to kill at the moment. I take recommendations for players that have been retired at least a decade.
2021 Q1 Fireside Chat: Low-Effort Tweets, a Community-Driven Blacklist, Charity Posts...and more! Share Your Feedback and Vote in our Poll!
Hey everyone!
The season is over, the Bucs are Super Bowl champs, and it's time for the periodic airing of grievances. But before we start we'd like to introduce our newest mods. Everyone welcome and heckle:
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criminysakes
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DrewLockedandLoaded
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No32
and the baffling but welcome return of LL_Cruel_J
And now on with the show!
Rethinking Low Effort Tweets:
We talked about this in the last FSC. Below is the text, and you can review the original discussion here. Right now we are asking for you to formally put your vote in using the poll at the bottom of this post:
Current r/NFL rules on self-posts stipulate that Redditors are required to post "well thought out ideas/interesting scenarios" and "uncommon/interesting observations."
The rules also explicitly do not allow "short-form hot take commentary" which "...includes self and link posts." We recognize that shallow Twitter hot take posts have become a prevalent part of sub discussion (e.g. lol Jets are bad, wHy NoT bIenIeMy tweets).
After listening to the community's feedback on the consistency of the mod team with regards to enforcing "hot take commentary" rules, we recognize there might be a double standard for what we allow from Twitter versus what we allow from a Redditor.
Examples of Twitter Hot Take Posts:
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[Greenberg] I have no doubt the #Jets practice offense, but when they play you genuinely wouldn’t know it.
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[Greenberg]I have watched a lot of bad football in my life. I’ve never seen a team as bad as the 2020 New York #Jets. There isn’t anything they do well. They are unprepared, undisciplined, and look like they absolutely hate playing. If ownership isn’t embarrassed by this they never will be.
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[Benjamin Solak] The Jets fired Todd Bowles to hire Adam Gase
Putting an end to low-effort Twitter hot takes on r/NFL is a common complaint. We'd like you to sound off below on where you stand, and vote in the poll at the end of this post.
Establishing a Blacklist:
Continuing the trend established above with Twitter hot take posts, we'd like to bring up the idea of a community-driven "blacklist" for discussion. There are some prominent sports figures/accounts who exist only to troll and draw attention to themselves. Their commentary rarely generates meaningful discussion, and much of the time the comments descend to a combination of personal attacks and fanbase attacks.
The mod team wants to ask the community two questions here:
Should a community-driven blacklist of Twitter personalities and websites be established?
If yes, which accounts/websites would you add to this list?
In the event a blacklist is established, in the spirit of transparency, the mod team will publish this list in the Wiki section and update it as accounts/sites are added or removed.
Post your thoughts in the comments below and respond to the poll at the end of this.
Charity-Related Posts:
Some of you hate them, some of you want them. To be honest, we don't have a clear picture. What would you like to see? Comment below and respond to the poll.
Open Forum:
What else do you want to talk about? Anything is fair game. Bring it up below!
Fill out the survey here and let us know what you think:
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