Ryan Clark Calls Sean Payton a Thug

Somehow I feel like if Russ wasn't black then Clark wouldn't have made those comments. I'm a black man, but I do get frustrated with everything becoming different because of a person being black. Sean had Teddy here and everybody loved him. He brought in Jameis also. And while here, Drew was playing at a HOF level. You don't scream at the mistakes of a 1st ballot HOF guy who helped to change the entire perception of a franchise and uplifted a region after devastation. Drew earned a certain level of treatment with not only Sean, but the fanbase and organization and with his teammates.

I don't think Russ being black is an issue as he's about as clean off the field as a player can get. The point being left out by most fans and analysts is that Russ is playing terrible football. I watched two of their games and dude is not meant for Sean's system. He is not a pocket QB. He's a read one or two guys then run the scramble drill kind of guy and he's no longer just running circles around people. The parts of his game he should have been developing over these years to prepare him for his athletic decline he obviously didn't do. So now he can't run from people and he can't play in the pocket so his career as a top notch QB is likely done unless he goes to a team that implements a system that caters to his style which, at his age, I don't think a team should do.