Leave it to Richard Sherman to once again hit the nail right on the head. I reccommend reading the whole thing but here's my favorite bits. http://mmqb.si.com/2014/04/02/richard-sherman-desean-jackson/
Really? He honestly thinks the main reasons the Eagles cut him are because of gang ties they have known about for years and them being racists , instead of it being a whole lot more about the money and a new coach that doesn't want a player who doesn't talk to coaches and refuses to show up for mandatory meetings? Yeah, he nailed it alright.
That Riley should have been somehow punished for saying ni***r considering the NFL's view on the matter, or at least it should have been viewed in a similar light as DeSeans "gang" ties.
Nowhere do I see anything saying the main reason DeSean was cut was for gang ties or their being racist.
He mentions only gang ties and race. Doesn't mention anything about a new coach, DeSean's history with the team and coaches, and most of all....MONEY. Didn't mention it once. Gang ties and race.
Well okay, I guess I looked at it in a different light. I saw it more as a encompassing take on the way the whole situation was viewed by the general public and the media rather than being a specific takedown of the Eagles...other than in passing and as a way of pointing out the overall hypocrisy of the big picture. It wasn't a focus on why he was cut, or whether that was right or wrong, and it barely touches upon that at all either way, really...in my eyes, it was a comment on the double standard and treatment of the "troubled" white person in the NFL and the "troubled" black person, and I thought it was well thought out and pretty on point in that regard.
I don't even think he was strong on that point. Riley Cooper wasn't not cut because he was white, it was because Jeremy Maclin got hurt. He made an interesting point about where they come from and trying to help others, but overall more fluff than substance about the actual situations.
