POSTED 11:32 a.m. EDT, September 3, 2007
JETS CREATING BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL . . . FOR THE JETS?
Pausing between bites of pepperoni rolls and swigs of Diet Pepsi while tailgating prior to the West Virginia game on Saturday to check on the e-mails that had flowed into the PFT "in" box, we found a flurry of messages from folks who were pointing out to us a Saturday item from Rich Cimini of the New York Daily News.
Cimini, who as a member of the New York media necessarily regards himself as a cut above everyone else in the business, including the national guys, inexplicably misread a statement from Peter King's ranking of the top 500 players in the league.
Or was it a mistake? (More on that later.)
King, in ranking Jets safety Kerry Rhodes as the 29th best player in the NFL and Bills tackle Jason Peters as the 39th, justified his decision by saying: "I wouldn't move them down even if Bill Belichick called and said, "Neither of those guys could make my team."
Somehow, Cimini saw the hypothetical quote that was attributed to Belichick, without noticing the words that make the quote clearly hypothetical.
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