Lombardi hits The Weekly World News (football edition) in the mouth - New England Patriots Forums

JSn · 10-02-2008, 05:34 PM

I know, I'm posty today. Sue me.

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This article below was in ProFootballTalk written by the owner, Mike Florio. I have never talked to him, as I do not respect the manner in which he is constantly used by his sources to be a mouthpiece for their own interests. I do know which Raider source that is using Florio for his agenda and have heard the gossip transpire first hand.

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But this story was typical of the manner of stories thrown up on that site as “news”, such as his story last summer that Randy Moss might get cut, before he went on to score 23 touchdowns. And since he never mentions our site nor links our breaking news we assume he will never read this story. And if that is the case, we hope he understands our intent here is to not engage in a war of words, but simply defend against a baseless accusation.

***Jackson 2*** · 10-02-2008, 06:20 PM

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I know, I'm posty today. Sue me.

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Stay posty. That's a great one. Thanks.

Ichiro · 10-02-2008, 07:54 PM

I LOVE Mike Lombardi's blog. What a breath of fresh air!

***alamo*** · 10-02-2008, 08:33 PM

I am generally a fan of PFT and Mike Florio, but the Al Davis coverage was astonishing in its uncharacteristic enthusiasm and imbalance. I can easily agree with Lombardi that Florio allowed himself to be unduly influenced by sources with an axe to grind.

That having been said, PFT plays an important role. Do we really want almost all our football "inside news" coming from Clayton/Mortenson/Schefter/Glazer/Casserly? They all generally do good work and have their moments, but they all represent a decidedly league-influenced viewpoint.

As long as you understand how much and where you can trust PFT, it's a good site.

Brady to Brown · 10-02-2008, 08:41 PM

OMG someone who has a large reader base calling out PFT.

Love it.

***fgssand*** · 10-02-2008, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by alamo

I am generally a fan of PFT and Mike Florio, but the Al Davis coverage was astonishing in its uncharacteristic enthusiasm and imbalance. I can easily agree with Lombardi that Florio allowed himself to be unduly influenced by sources with an axe to grind.

That having been said, PFT plays an important role. Do we really want almost all our football "inside news" coming from Clayton/Mortenson/Schefter/Glazer/Casserly? They all generally do good work and have their moments, but they all represent a decidedly league-influenced viewpoint.

As long as you understand how much and where you can trust PFT, it's a good site.

Hey, I read PFT as well (along with just about everything else football), PFT is like the Enquirer or TMZ whereas the National Football Post is much more credible and has real NFL people writing for them.

I agree with your point about needing information beyond league influence, but PFT tends to throw everything out there just for a website hit.

SVN · 10-02-2008, 10:45 PM

and florio responds
ProFootballTalk.com - LAST WORD ON OUR AL DAVIS STANCE

seriously..how ridiculous the nfl season has become...its really more about what happens during the week than sunday - the *****ing,the rumor mongering, two websites going against each other, people taking shots at one another and responding back with their own 'shots'
we all sucked into it because of the drama waiting for sunday to come

***alamo*** · 10-02-2008, 10:47 PM

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OMG someone who has a large reader base calling out PFT.

Love it.

I would definitely dispute that Mike Lombardi has "a large reader base". It's only the last couple of months I've become aware of him as a blogger, via links here.

PFT is much much bigger and well read. Alexa ranks PFT 8,390 among web sites, and Nationalfootballpost.com 260,753rd.

SVN · 10-02-2008, 11:01 PM

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I am generally a fan of PFT and Mike Florio, but the Al Davis coverage was astonishing in its uncharacteristic enthusiasm and imbalance. I can easily agree with Lombardi that Florio allowed himself to be unduly influenced by sources with an axe to grind.

That having been said, PFT plays an important role. Do we really want almost all our football "inside news" coming from Clayton/Mortenson/Schefter/Glazer/Casserly? They all generally do good work and have their moments, but they all represent a decidedly league-influenced viewpoint.

As long as you understand how much and where you can trust PFT, it's a good site.

he was on dan patrick show today and again talked about BB and moss.he thrives in rumor mills
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/danpatrick/

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Davis also claimed that Bill Belichick tampered with Randy Moss, but the Patriots coach denied it and the NFL won't pursue it because no formal tampering charges were fired. Furthermore, the Raiders traded him, so it's a difficult point to make.

how difficult it is for florio to actually look into what davis said and see how much is BS before making a ruckus about lombardi and treason.