02-27-2018, 07:10 PM
(02-27-2018, 03:26 PM)Joelist Wrote: You need to remember where the meme got started - it was when John Thornton had to go and flat out tell Marvin to sit him and play Pat Sims.
That is not exactly what happened. Thornton was just mainly playing DT on first and second downs, then about the middle of the season when we were 0-8 someone got injure and he started playing more on third downs. So he told Lewis it was fine if they played Sims on first and second down since he was playing third downs.
It was never Thornton going to Marvin and saying "Sims is better than me. Bench me and play him." It was more like "Since this season is trash I don't mind if you want to play the rookie to see what you have."
