Gerhart piss someone off?

right now it seems like he’s too soft…..even letroy guion gave him a hit in non contact practice.

until he stands up for himself and starts bruising people back like he did at sanford he wont gain much respect from these vets.

And I do believe he missed a some of the voluntary stuff because he wanted the “walk” at his Stanford graduation.

Anyways, I believe it’s mostly in good fun. Some seriousness to it, but it’ll be forgotten when the season starts.

I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with race… I’m very doubtful of that actually.

That Ray Edwards is kind of a douche?

He is the only guy openly complaining about his contract, yet he doesn’t deserve a new one. He keeps opening his mouth, spouting crap like “I’m gonna break the sack record this year” after putting up only 5 sacks per year. Gets suspended for a banned substance violation, and now this.

Rookies ALWAYS try to play harder than they should. That is what rookies have to do in order to make the team. I highly doubt whatever Gerhart did was intentional.

I mean, the guy went to Stanford so he obviously has some smarts, he knows it would be really stupid to risk injuring another player by intentionally hitting a guy harder than needed. Ray, on the other hand, does not seem to understand that.

Pat just likes to hit people, and when he hits someone it is almost always hard. It’s kinda tough not to hit someone hard with his size. He would have said the same thing had he knocked AP off his rocker.

he’s a rookie. he’s supposed to be treated like a chump until he proves his worth.

Maybe they want him to play angry. Or maybe it is, gasp, racism.

that’s right, they always coming down hard on the “angry pink man”.

The black/white thing kinda went away in pro football about 50 years ago.

and its funny because the training camp highlight video
http://www.vikings.com/media-vault/videos/Training-Camp-Highlight-Video—-810/7ffdbfa2-7fd5-4f93-a04c-ffc64d68e513
almost all the highlights are TG not AY kind of funny? Probably just want to show off the new draft pick.

If sportsmanship were easy, what would be the value of it? Anyone who plays sports discovers people are out to cheat, take cheap shots at you, and even go Jack Tatum on you. The good thing so far about this little camp incident is that whatever feelings are involved, no one is playing the victim card out loud, but rather going the no blood, no foul route.

It’s not like the New Orleans Saints are going to say, “Hi, Mr. Gerhart. Let us get out of your way so you can score some touchdowns. Nice day today, isn’t it?”

Anyone who can’t keep their emotions in check is likely to get suckered into a potential game-changing penalty. Chilly was right when he said this is an educational opportunity. Discretion is the better part of valor. It’s better to be smart and take your licks out on some other unfortunate team in some constructive manner.

If you can’t stand blood, you can’t be a good surgeon. If you can’t take it or can’t dish it out, you can’t play in the NFL very long.

Gerhart has said he doesn’t want to be compared to just John Riggins. As long as you are playing amid various races, there are going to be de facto interracial conflicts. I’ve been in the kind that got out of hand, and it wasn’t that I felt it was just because God put us in different colored birthday suits. A fight doesn’t mean it’s all about race. It sometimes means you have conflicting goals on the field and conflicting views about what constitutes fair play.

I’d be more concerned if no one got upset in the heat at camp. The phrase “going postal” caught on for a reason.

briefly

I JUST now realized that we’re talking about how he’s a white running back. I really truly to the depths of my heart hope that’s not the reason he’s taking a beating. Hopefully, it’s just rookie issues. I’d hate to see this kind of thing explode in, of all places, Minnesota.

A rookie.

And a running back.

And one of the few guys that the defense can really HIT.

I’m sure Young takes his licks, but it’s less publicized because he’s not a high-profile draft pick and he’s been through this a few times before.

The D starts on him early and often, welcome to the NFL. He does well this season, shows up next camp and the D is like yea, we are the reason you did so well last year, they all laugh and life goes on.

Until there’s at least a scrap, a shred, a scintilla (I’ll want my change back from that one) of evidence that there’s any sort of racial conflict going on, I think we’d be way of the line to suggest that’s the cause of whatever issues that Toby Gerhart is experiencing on the Vikings squad. Think about it for a minute, seriously. This not just the NFL, this is the Minnesota Vikings, and we have absolutely no reason to presume racially-motivated tensions, let alone issues and outright harassment. Even more than that, it’s downright insulting to the Vikings squad and the caliber of player they’ve proven themselves to be, to even suggest this sort of crap.

I think that we’ve been hyper-sensitive to inter-racial situations due to the nation’s politics and the way certain segments of politically active groups have a tendency to throw down the race card for any excuse at all, whether it’s justified or it. We see people and groups being accused of being racist without any basis other than that they disagreed with the accuser. Let’s not bring that crap to the DN, I think that the vast majority of us are much, much better than that.

Except for Vikings, who are purple people and thus awesome.

with more pro bowlers than you can count on two hands. When people want to make it on that squad they have to show their worth. They can’t rest on their laurels or their draft position. They can’t chill out because they got a great scholarship or whatever. The leaders on the team are going to make sure that person realizes he isn’t as good as they are and needs to get better to make the team.

I think the defense is doing a great job with this. This will make Tony tougher and better fast or get him our of the league. Either way is good for us. If he bails we put in Reynaud or Young if he succeeds then he’s alreay been hit by some of the best run stoppers in the league. Nuff said.