View Full Version : Priest Holmes retires.
Admin Steve
11-21-2007, 02:37 PM
Another ex Raven from the Super Bowl team retires.
Good luck dude!
CHICAGO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Three-time Pro Bowl running back Priest Holmes of the Kansas City Chiefs ended his remarkable comeback by announcing his retirement from the National Football League Wednesday.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7094670,00.html
highwater
11-21-2007, 03:20 PM
I give major props to Priest for coming back after almost two seasons without playing at all, due to his original neck injury sufferred in 2005. Show of hands, how many people thought he'd try to come back at all?
Congrats on a great career, especially for an undrafted FA. And enjoy that Super Bowl ring.
HoustonRaven
11-21-2007, 03:30 PM
Class act and NEEDS to be put in the Ring of Honor (is he already there?) post haste!
We can't put every Raven who was a great guy in the ROH.
flraven
11-21-2007, 04:13 PM
Priest is definitely a class act. I got his autograph at an Inner Harbor rally during our Super Bowl run and he thanked me for asking for his autograph.
God bless him and wish him well on his future, whatever it may hold. (RB coach somewhere?)
flraven
11-21-2007, 04:19 PM
We can't put every Raven who was a great guy in the ROH.
I remember you posting in another thread that the Ring is not the "Ring of Guys We Really Liked". That made me chuckle, because you're right.
While Priest is a class act, and performed well as a Raven, I don't think he belongs in the Ring. What I will say is that maybe we shouldn't have drafted Jamal in the first place and let Priest be the featured back. Once they let him run instead of "Six-Pound" Bam Morris, he was great.
HoustonRaven
11-21-2007, 04:20 PM
We can't put every Raven who was a great guy in the ROH.
Huh? He has more TD's, about as many yards and one more pro bowl then Byner. Not to mention, a very pretty Super Bowl ring. If Byner qualifies, so does Holmes easily.
Byner doesn't qualify. He is up there but he shouldn't be. If we go by your standard we could fill the ring up in 20 minutes.
HoustonRaven
11-21-2007, 04:30 PM
Byner doesn't qualify. He is up there but he shouldn't be. If we go by your standard we could fill the ring up in 20 minutes.
Again ... huh? :insane:
We've had exactly one RB better than Holmes and Byner .... his name is Jamal Lewis and he deserves it as well. And your "20 minute" statement is a non sequitur, having no facts behind it. We havnt had an offense good enough to meet your standard! We set the RB standard with Byner, someone with very respectable stats and did a lot of volunteer work outside of football.
Not to mention his foundation that was a God send for inner-city kids who wanted to play football.
ROH for Holmes is a no-brainer.
flraven
11-21-2007, 04:33 PM
Then while we're at it, how about Errict Rhett?
Seriously, Priest was a great back for us, but doesn't rate the Ring. If you put Priest in there, then Vinny and Michael Jackson would be right behind them.
jmho.
HoustonRaven
11-21-2007, 04:40 PM
Then while we're at it, how about Errict Rhett?
Seriously, Priest was a great back for us, but doesn't rate the Ring. If you put Priest in there, then Vinny and Michael Jackson would be right behind them.
jmho.
Are you kidding me???? Rhett played two years and doesnt even come close to Byners of Holmes.
Byner set the standard for Ravens RB's and Holmes has better stats than Byner. If Byner is in with his stats and accolades, then Byner with the better stats and work for the Baltimore community deserves it was well.
purplepoe
11-21-2007, 04:43 PM
Huh? He has more TD's, about as many yards and one more pro bowl then Byner. Not to mention, a very pretty Super Bowl ring. If Byner qualifies, so does Holmes easily.
I think everyone agrees that Byner shouldn't be there.
Byner should in no way be used as a measuring stick for other possible inductees. The reason he is in is because of one man; Art Modell.
Holmes was a nice player but in no way deserves to get into the Ring of Honor IMO.
He played 3 seasons here, rushed for 2102 yds and 10 TDs.
PP
flraven
11-21-2007, 04:52 PM
Are you kidding me???? Rhett played two years and doesnt even come close to Byners of Holmes.
Byner set the standard for Ravens RB's and Holmes has better stats than Byner. If Byner is in with his stats and accolades, then Byner with the better stats and work for the Baltimore community deserves it was well.
Actually, I was kidding you about Rhett.
Priest Holmes, while a great player and a class person off the field, didn't amass the stats/years that would warrant the ROH. And I do really like Priest too, he was one of my favorite Ravens while here and I continued to follow his progress once he left for KC.
We've had exactly one RB better than Holmes and Byner .... his name is Jamal Lewis and he deserves it as well. And your "20 minute" statement is a non sequitur, having no facts behind it. We havnt had an offense good enough to meet your standard! We set the RB standard with Byner, someone with very respectable stats and did a lot of volunteer work outside of football.
Being the second best back a team has had in 12 years is NOT a high recommendation, and it seems it is your whole case.
Not to mention his foundation that was a God send for inner-city kids who wanted to play football.
That's nice, and if he had some nice stats to go with it I would be right there with you.
ROH for Holmes is a no-brainer.
Makes sense, since I have a brain I am not agreeing. If I was "blessed" like you I guess I would get your point.
highwater
11-21-2007, 08:09 PM
Are you kidding me???? Rhett played two years and doesnt even come close to Byners of Holmes.
Once again, if you are being sarcastic about Byner, you're not doing a very good job of conveying it. You need to work on your sarcasm.
But if you actually really think Byner belongs in the Ring, you would be the first Ravens fan I've run across who thought that.
Byner is up there because he is a friend of Modell and Modell thought he deserved it for his time with the franchise (including front office time), which was spent almost exclusively in C-choke in regard to playing. The guy bounced out of here as soon as Snyder offered him a gig dusting the offices down in Dead$kin$ land. Frankly, when he did that we should have yanked it down. I would stick his name on the lower ring at the end and accidentally hang a Budweiser banner over it.
HoustonRaven
11-22-2007, 05:29 AM
HW and Greg,
My point was if Byner was up there so should Holmes. I clearly see Im in the minority.
Greg -- being a smartass is not your forte. I was not questioning if you had brains or not -- relax! :)
highwater
11-22-2007, 07:18 AM
My point was if Byner was up there so should Holmes. I clearly see Im in the minority.
I understand your logic, but our point is that Byner shouldn't be in the Ring in the first place. He should be regarded as an outlier, a political entry that had little to do with what he did for the Ravens. By your logic, Eric Rhett really should be in, because he did more on the field for the Ravens than Byner did.
festivus
11-22-2007, 08:43 AM
Houston, everyone sees your point. It's just that your point - "If X is up there, Y should be too" - is stupid. Nobody accepts that, and if people did, every mediocre starter who ever wore purple and black would be up there.
That's not how the ROH, or indeed any HOF, should work.
Also I find Greg to be an outstanding smartass, and normally his posts are pretty well researched, too.
You are a decent smartass, to your credit you are coming along. You could do with more fact-checking, but you're getting there. :thumbup: ;)