*The San Francisco 49ers suspended radio analyst Tim Ryan for one game after he made a comment about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, noting that he is skilled at faking handoffs because of his “dark skin color with a dark football.”
“He’s really good at that fake, Lamar Jackson, but when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing,” Ryan said on the “Murph & Mac” radio show.
“I mean you literally could not see when he was in and out of the mesh point and if you’re a half step slow on him in terms of your vision forget about it, he’s out of the gate,” he added.
Ryan made the comments on KNBR’s “Murph and Mac” morning radio show when the hosts asked about Jackson’s performance in Sunday’s game, which saw the Ravens beat the 49ers 20-17.
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The 49ers announced in a statement that the team was “disappointed” but are “confident he will grow and learn from this experience.”
“We are disappointed in Tim Ryan’s comments earlier this week, and have suspended him for the upcoming game,” the statement said. “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.”
The statement added that the team has “reached out to the Baltimore Ravens organization to extend our apologies and assure them the matter is not being taken lightly.”
Ryan apologized to Jackson and “anyone else I offended” in a separate statement.
“I regret my choice of words in trying to describe the conditions of the game,” he said. “Lamar Jackson is an MVP-caliber player and I respect him greatly. I want to sincerely apologize to him and anyone else I offended.”
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