Patriots Rumor ESPN hitpiece on Patriots (Rift with Brady/Belichick/Kraft) - Merged

[AtomicDawg]

Literally was the top comment in response.

These media hacks are so freaking predictable.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Mike sux he never has anything to add to these stories to confirm or deny them.

Why does Reiss suck? If BSPN got involved they would A) would raise their journalistic standards and B) piss off the hard core Pats fans who find value in his reporting.

 

[Former Fan]

Not completely true. There's also Bruschi and Louis Riddick.
Riddick is the best non-Patriot media guy in the country.( although he did play briefly for BB in Cleveland).
He is one of the only national media guys who tells the truth about the BB/TB12 era: that what the Patriots have done since 2001 is mind-boggling and due to hard work,sacrifice and intelligence, not to bogus cheating scandals.
He's a very sharp football mind and sees through BS. Former player and front office guy.
Yeah, but I agree those guys are the exceptions at the ESPN cesspool.

Sorry, I barley know who even works at BSPN anymore. I just know lots of people here still advocate for Reiss. Bruschi is not a reporter, and this other guy I've never heard of. If he works at BSPN, I'll likely never see his work. I won't lose any sleep over it.

 

[RobertWeathers]

This maybe belongs in the Garoppolo thread, but it is stunning to see that he has been canonized after 5 games. While I don't imagine the Patriots will find a QB as good as JimmyG to succeed Tom, people are out of their minds if they believe that he will enter the QB pantheon (i.e. Marino, Montana, Staubach, Manning, Rodgers, Brees, Brady). First, I've always been very concerned by JGs small stature and his ability to take hits. But now that I hear Guerrero locked him out of TB12, I'm even more concerned by his lack of flexibility!

The Garrapolites have been stuffing the ballot box.

 

[Joey007]

These media hacks are so freaking predictable.

The joke doesn’t even make sense. Everyone’s pretty much heckling him for that one. It’s actually pretty weird though considering how often he normally defends the Pats.

But this whole thing is his story, so he obviously has his feelings hurt about this.

 

[Uncle Rico]

OK, so I read the story, read some posts here and now I'm seeing what the football people are saying on Twitter.

Here's the thing:

I keep seeing the word "bombshell" to describe the piece.

Can someone please tell me what the "bomb shell" is? In journalistic terms, what is the nut graph?

Anybody?

 

[RobertWeathers]

"Those interviewed describe a palpable sense in the building that this might be the last year together for this group." Palpable sense in the building = we're just throwing **** at the wall with zero conviction.

Which brings me to my actual point here: are we really supposed to believe that Seth Wickersham of all people has dozens of sources in the Patriots organization, while the local guys have basically nothing? It just fails the plausibility test IMO, I don't buy it. If there was a story here, I think the Tom Currans and Mike Reisses would know it. Probably not all the details, but they'd know there's some fire here. That they're stating otherwise so emphatically indicates pretty strongly to me that this is just another ridiculous ESPN smear job. They might have a couple low level staffers willing to anonymously sensationalize ****, but that doesn't make an actual story.

Oh but Felger has been saying Bedard knows something....

 

[BradyFTW!]

And look how right you were! Kraft led us to a complete disaster and should have been forced to sell the team. You boys in the bleachers knew better than the Boardroom what was what! Oh, what could have been!

Yeah, I've never really understood going to bat so hard for Parcells. He's always kinda struck me as a Jeff Fisher type; good at turning around a bad program, which to his credit he did here, but beyond that I think the main thing he had going for it was that he was lucky enough to employ Belichick. There's a reason why once that partnership ended, Belichick built a dynasty that far surpassed what they did together, while Parcells... well, we saw what he did in Dallas and Miami.

 

[AtomicDawg]

OK, so I read the story, read some posts here and now I'm seeing what the football people are saying on Twitter.

Here's the thing:

I keep seeing the word "bombshell" to describe the piece.

Can someone please tell me what the "bomb shell" is? In journalistic terms, what is the nut graph?

Anybody?

The "bombshell" is that 3 men who have been working together for 17 years appear to hate standing in the same room together and because of this the team is in trouble. At least that's what I gather from some who believe this.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I wish I could program PF to automatically add another "winner" to this post ever hour for the next six months.

Agree completely, best post in this thread.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Oh but Felger has been saying Bedard knows something....

So one guy who's consistently full of **** with an anti-Pats axe to grind says another guy who's trying to keep his ill-conceived Boston Sports Journal afloat (and whose credibility has tanked over the last couple years) knows something? Something that they haven't divulged but are sitting on for some reason while ESPN turns the story in question into a national headline that's going to essentially monopolize football coverage the day before the playoffs start, driving clicks from all across the country? Bedard made a story out of claiming that Guerrerro told a guy not to do squats, if he had anything here he'd be screaming it from the rooftops

So... I don't really buy it. If Bedard knew something, he'd be capitalizing in a big way right now. His website needs to the exposure, and having an actual scoop here could deliver it. The simple answer here is that he doesn't have anything notable.

 

[NYPatsFan]

Mike sux he never has anything to add to these stories to confirm or deny them.

Disagree. This is a huge story for ESPN and Mike works for ESPN. The fact that he posted this piece with actual quotes from real people who disagree with the ESPN article, is about as far as he can go without jeopardizing his job.

 

[Deus Irae]

OK, so I read the story, read some posts here and now I'm seeing what the football people are saying on Twitter.

Here's the thing:

I keep seeing the word "bombshell" to describe the piece.

Can someone please tell me what the "bomb shell" is? In journalistic terms, what is the nut graph?

Anybody?

Bombshell! Seth Wickersham caught, once again, writing a sloppy, misleading, and (perhaps deliberately) a sometimes false article.

 

[VectorPrime]

Reiss is great and the fact that so many on this forum **** on him because he sometimes is critical of the team is sad.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

It's nice to see but be real -- that's PR boilerplate and would have been issued word-for-word the same regardless of how false or how true Wickersham's article is.

 

[Bruins29]

It is nice to see that this era of the Patriots not only has redefined the standard of what a GOAT sports franchise is, but at the same time can turn middle age male professional sports writers and media members into gossipy 12 year old girls.

Amazing

 

[RobertWeathers]

So one guy who's consistently full of **** with an anti-Pats axe to grind says another guy who's trying to keep his ill-conceived Boston Sports Journal afloat (and whose credibility has tanked over the last couple years) knows something? Something that they haven't divulged but are sitting on for some reason while ESPN turns the story in question into a national headline that's going to essentially monopolize football coverage the day before the playoffs start, driving clicks from all across the country?

Eh, I don't really buy it. If Bedard knew something, he'd be capitalizing in a big way right now. His website needs to the exposure, and having an actual scoop here could deliver it. The simple answer here is that he doesn't have anything notable.

Bedard has jack squat. I bet Felger is a silent partner.

And who the F would spend money on that site? Chris Price is a good guy and Miguel is aces but spending money to read Bedard's crap is a waste of $.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

And if the Pats signed a FA it might have offset th potential 3rd rounder for Jimmy G.

 

[bormio]

Now when they win the SB, BB and Brady are going to have to kiss to show everyone they love each other.

 

[RobertWeathers]

It is nice to see that this era of the Patriots not only has redefined the standard of what a GOAT sports franchise is, but at the same time can turn middle age male professional sports writers and media members into gossipy 12 year old girls.

Amazing

My 11, 13 and 15 year old daughters take great offense to you likening their gossip to sportswriters.