San Francisco 49ers radio analyst Tim Ryan will be sitting this weekend out after comments he made on KNBR’s Murph and Mac Show in San Francisco.
On Wednesday Ryan said Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s dark skin helps him disguise a dark football when running fake handoffs. For those comments the team suspended Ryan for Sunday’s 49ers game against New Orleans.
The team released the following statement: “We are disappointed in Tim Ryan’s comments earlier this week, and have suspended him for the upcoming game. We hold Tim to a high standard as a representative of our organization and he must be more thoughtful with his words. Tim has expressed remorse in a public statement and has also done so with us privately. We know Tim as a man of high integrity and are confident he will grow and learn from this experience.”
Ryan had this to say about his choice of words: “I regret my choice of words in trying to describe the conditions of the game. Lamar Jackson is an MVP-caliber player and I respect him greatly. I want to sincerely apologize to him and anyone else I offended.”
And so it goes……