Michael Lombardi has taken a lot of criticism over the ultimate week for his remarks on Antonio Pierce.
For those that overlooked his opinions on Pierce, they can be determined here and on YouTube at the bottom of the page.
In two separate podcasts Lombardi blasted Pierce for 1) making the “Mahomes Rules” comments and 2) failing to understand what the ‘Raider Way’ is simply about.
“This guy is using me crazy,” Lombardi said in reference to Pierce on The GM Shuffle podcast. “Can he simply shut up? Why won’t any person in the Raiders tell him to shut up?”
The following show, Lombardi picked up the place he left off.
“The ‘Raider Way’ isn’t a word,” Lombardi said. “It’s about ‘this a prototype of the participant we prefer at this position. This is a prototype of a participant we favor at that position.’ That’s the Raider Way. What’s so comical is what he’s speaking about is because he’s from Compton, he thinks he knows the Raider Way. It’s a joke.”
Predictably, Lombardi was once met with backlash from Raider fans and spoke back to his critics on Monday…
“All last week when I was on my vacation… my Twitter and my Instagram was getting stuffed from Raider followers about all this hate toward Antonio Pierce and towards what I said and then I come to find out today when we have been getting equipped to tape the podcast that Dov Kleiman… he’s an combination on Twitter. He combined two suggests and put it into one, so he took my sentences, and he patched them together to create a sensation, which is totally unfair [and] absolutely unethical.”
“Nobody listened to the podcast and now not solely did they now not hear to the podcast, they listened to the taping collectively of two podcasts, which has me furious. They are putting words in my mouth, which is completely unfair. That’s no longer the intent on Twitter. That’s no longer the intent of news. The intent of news is to have ethics and on a day that we are mourning the loss of Chris Mortensen, somebody who used to be very ethical, somebody who had excellent integrity, we’re making an attempt to deal with stuff that are attempting to damage people’s careers via putting stuff out there… and what’s even sadder is all the humans commenting on it never did any research. They by no means went and watched or listened to the podcast.”
All matters considered; the feeling doesn’t alternate a lot when listening to Lombardi’s comments in the context of two separate podcasts.
It might no longer have been fair to previous each remarks together in a social media post, however the message nevertheless comes throughout the same.
Furthermore, it’s completely truthful for Lombardi to not like the way Pierce has been speaking in the media.
It’s also honest for Lombardi to think Pierce doesn’t understand what the ‘Raider Way’ is all about (even although the definition of the ‘Raider Way’ is of course subjective).
In the end, Lombardi made the choice to make a couple of robust takes. That’s what he is paid to do. A lot of human beings did listen to his feedback on the podcast. And, for higher or worse, this is the way the information cycle performs out in the cutting-edge NFL…
