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I love covering the NFL, but there is some stuff going on now that is taking away some of the love.
There is a line from an old Leonard Cohen song, “I’m sentimental if you know what I mean, I love the country, but I can’t stand the scene.”
I feel that way about covering the Jets right now.
I love covering the Jets.
But the media landscape is getting hard to take.
I did a radio show today in Albany.
They asked me about a story that went viral today from a NYC paper that the Jets have made multiple offers to Fitzpatrick.
I’m sick of this. I’m tired of being asked about stories being thrown against the wall for click-bait.
Sick of Pro Football Talk and Mike Florio promoting these stories on his popular website and giving them legs.
His website is immensely popular to his credit, and when he links to a story, people take notice
Florio is an enabler for one particular writer. He’s like Howard Rubinstein to this writer, providing him constant PR. Whatever he writes, whether it has veracity or not, Florio links to it.
I get asked about this click-bait crapola all the time. Leave me alone with this nonsense!
I just want to cover the Jets and the NFL. Focus on football. Not chasing windmills.
Dude, of course the Jets have made more than one offer to Fitzpatrick.
Why is this story a big deal?
Because the writer is a really good at dropping stories at opportune times and playing they aggregators like fiddles.
Yes, there has been more than one offer.
This isn’t to say any of them are good offers in the eyes of Fitzpatrick and agent Jimmy Sexton.
We all know the deal.
They’ve offered a three-year deal and a one-year deal.
Wow, what a great scoop.
The Jets media scene is hard to take these days.
Honestly, if I were a free agent player, and did my research on this place, I’d sign elsewhere. Go somewhere with less media. It’s a quality of life issue. People can get on your nerves around here.
This one writer does like a half-hour interview with Eric Decker at mini-camp. It should have been cut short by team officials. It went way too long.
And the writer doesn’t publish the quotes in the days that followed.
He waited until now, right before camp, to get the Decker quotes out now about Fitzpatrick, to stir things up.
I saw this interview going on. It was like a fishing trip. Keep throwing lines in the water, with the hope of catching a few big ones.
The guy kept going at Decker over and over again. If you do this, you are likely to get something.
Two beat writers left the Jets’ beat last week. Two in one week.
One to cover Rutgers and the other, I’m not sure. I hear he he might have something else lined up.
Isn’t the NFL where you strive to end up as a sportswriter? It’s the top league.
But these two cats came to hate the media scene around here.
It stinks to high heaven.
Fitzpatrick got multiple offers.
Stop the presses.
July 25, 2016
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