What I got out of just watching the segment on NFLN was that Nance gets it, and it troubles and saddens him, and as he listened to him even Eisen looked uncomfortable. He was indicting the sports media. In their rush to gain a competitive advantage they are breaking all their own longstanding and well reasoned rules. Gee, the same thing they eviscerated BB for... Nance articulated something I was thinking earlier today, how the problem is compounded because as each one reports others feel compelled to immediately add layers based on that report. By the time you find out the original report was unfounded, it's too late to peel back those layers and put the proverbial genie back in the bottle. And potentially reputations if not lives are on some level irreparably damaged. He cited the Duke players as one example. And to what end, only so some mediot could be first and others could quickly add their two cents. He doesn't know what the answer is either because how can you enforce/police the rules short of endless slander and libel suits. Schefter seemed to be more willing to write it off to society as it is.
I was listening to Felger late this afternoon, as he flip flopped around on the fence, and at one point I was so incensed because he was making a case that Walsh's story rang true because he got promoted to a scout after that Superbowl. Only that's not true. Pioli stated several weeks ago that Walsh's move out of the video department to scouting was a lateral move. He remained in an entry level position, just assigned to another department where instead of taping games and practices he was editing footing packages for college players actual scouts were following. They are lazy and careless. They report second hand information and can't even get that right because they are too consumed with getting their poorly reasoned snap judgement on the record so some other half baked mediot can reference it.
Thanks Jim!
