----------- If we're being honest, regardless of Josh Norman delivering the first jab, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of Michael Thomas returning a not-so-subliminal shot at a disgraced cornerback whose bark has long been bigger than his backpedal, though that's not necessarily saying all that much. I'm typically entertained by players carrying their issues with each other off the field and onto the internet, but that tweet feels a lot like punching down. Especially since the target of it, who took the "high road" by not "wasting his breath", has never been short of hot air whenever his play has actually allowed him to start huffing and puffing. To put it bluntly, one of the most dominant and trustworthy pass catching options in the entire NFL should have bigger fish to fry than the one that looked like he got caught out of water before being iced on the bench...
If anything was evident on Monday Night, it's that the Saints were going to go wherever they wanted with the ball whenever they wanted (see 26-29, 363 yards during a game in which they took their foot off the gas in the 3rd quarter). Therefore, Josh Norman's best defense against Michael Thomas - any time he happened to run a route into his particular area of the field, that is - was Drew Brees' desire to get complimentary receivers heavily involved in the offense for the first time all year. You can't guard Mike, and - even on the off-chance you could - it wouldn't be with the type of zone-reliant cornerback that gets rendered unplayable by his own coach's unspoken admission that they can't protect Josh (as evidenced below)...
It's true that Michael Thomas was "held" to a relatively pedestrian stat line (4-74) by his exceptional standards. However, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the guy who is one off the league lead in catches and leads the universe in catch rate wasn't feeling too bothered by how his blocking assignment was trying to bracket him...
Especially when that blocking assignment was this helpless in getting under his own damn pads...
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12/9/2020 10:06:54 am
Bulling is not acceptable even if it's between two players. I would say Michael should give to learn gentleness as he has truly lost touch with humanity. If you can not display sportsmanship you are do not deserve to play.
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