DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

It started innocuously, with the question of whether it’s harder to catch a pass while covered by Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore or to break up a pass while guarding Saints receiver Michael Thomas. Then, Dolphins receiver DeVante Parker chimed in.

Parker picked the Gillmore option.

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Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

Cringe. And I thought AI would wipe us all out, but it may keep us around for entertainment

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

Michael Thomas sure loves to talk ****! I don't care though as long as he's a Saint. I don't follow the athletes off the field....it is usually a big disappointment when you find out your heroes are clowns in real life.:clown:

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

Just glad he’s on our team. Didn’t he make a Redskins defender cry a couple years back?

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

We would despise Mike and call him a clown if he wasn’t in a Saints uniform.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

This forum would feel that way about most the roster.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

I love it. He will back it up too.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

To be fair, I think that way about any player that isn't a Saint... Its a distinction without a difference for me

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

I fell differently about the "innocuously" point of view... Anyone in NFL media knows you don't have to say Michael Thomas three times to get him to show up..

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

Neither of these two players represented themselves very well here, after the initial harmless OPINION of Parker (even if we don't agree with him). But Thomas, being the superior player over Parker, should probably have been happy knowing that he is just that. Parker is never going to face Thomas head to head. He has actually run routes against Gilmore, and will continue to do so in the future. Why would anyone expect that his answer would have been anyone other than Gilmore? How does THAT get under your skin, if you are Thomas?

There's pride, and then there's just petty jealousy of anyone getting more "love" than you. Imagine having what this guy has, and still finding the time to be butt hurt about something completely meaningless.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

BUT I GET "CAN'T YOU EVER BE SIRIUS?"
YET HERE WE HAVE TWO MILLIONAIRES PLAYING "AM TOO!" / "NO YOU NOT!" SEEMS SOMEONE ELSE NEEDS TO CONSIDER THEIR AUDIENCE HMMMM?

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

The attitude Thomas is displaying is the same attitude that has the media slobbing all over MJ’s knob. Thomas? Prima-donna and too sensitive? Jordan? Fierce competitor and alpha male. I like MT’s attitude. Keep manifesting a chip on your shoulder.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

I watched MJ throughout his career. Personally, I think he's a class act. Jordan is my 2nd favorite pro athlete behind Drew Brees. He never showed his ass in public. I didn't see the documentary but if it will change my opinion of him then I don't want to see it.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

You’d be in for a treat.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

You won't like MJ then. Nor will you like most of these players. They use this as motivation. I've trained with Olympians which are similar, if not more motivated than these guys - they will use anything to motivate themselves and their level of concentration, focus, and discipline is like nothing I've ever seen anyone do at anything. But, as Jerry Rice says, not everyone is trying to be the greatest, but those very select few at the very top are and they do things very differently. We think we know but as Jim Mora said, we really don't know - in this case we really have no idea how difficult it is to get and stay at that level.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

That's just sh1t-talking, and that is very tame compared to what is said on the field. It's actually part of football if you have ever played.

It has nothing to do with race, age, character... Namath, Bradshaw, Alzedo... If you want to hear the worst/best of it mic the line.

Mike is just having fun with him, in that way the smartest guy in the room screws with the people he knows think they are.

Competitive nature doesn't just show up on Sunday.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

MJ responded to people that personally challenged him, or said something negative about him. And his responses were face to face. And don't tell me that things would have been different if MJ had twitter in his playing days, because he is about as private as a celebrity can be, even now.

That's different from responding to something that was not a negative about you, but a compliment to an opponent the guy has actually faced, and making your spat public.

I don't think that makes him a "bad" guy. It just makes him look insecure. If somebody talks trash to me on the field, the first thing I'll do is prove him wrong, and then, yeah, I'll probably have something to say. I don't do twitter, because it's garbage. If I were a celebrity, I'd be even less inclined to join it. Way too public a place to have a cat fight.

Just my two rusty pennies.

Re: DeVante Parker vs Michael Thomas
 

To the points already made MT and MJ are similar. Believe as you wish, the only difference being platform availability and changes in communication.

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