More hilarity. Please don't click the link unless you really want to waste your time, 'cause here's all you need to know.
Richard Justice puts no faith into his co-worker's reporting skills (that being John McClain's) and bad mouths Alan Burge (yes, full disclosure a friend of ItB.com) in the process for citing McClain to prove his point, plus he goes on to bite the Casserly hand that feeds him (well, feeds him garbage apparently, which is hilarious, too).
Has the Chronicle Sports desk no shame? Yes, rhetorical, I know.
Quote:
"Although neither side will discuss specifics of the offer, it is known the Texans were willing to pay Robinson like Carolina cornerback Chris Gamble." ... John McClain, Feb. 20
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6273910.html
McClain went further on the radio and said that the offer exceeded Gamble's (in guaranteed money). I'm sure I wasn't the only one that heard it.
p.s., Don't get fixated on total value. This isn't baseball. Report the guaranteed money and the years.
[The devil is in the details, my friend. I've been around NFL negotiations long enough to know there's a front side and a back side to the contracts. One side can spin an offer to be worth one amount, the other side another amount. I don't trust anyone's reporting except my own on this. In Washington, Charley Casserly twice leaked me numbers that were lies. When I printed different numbers in the newspaper, he never objected. I don't believe Dunta Robinson would have turned down Chris Gamble's contract, but I'm telling you I don't have the numbers nailed down. I'm not going to guess or say I've got numbers in the neighborhood. At some point, I'll get the numbers and give them to you. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. All I'm certain of is that Rick Smith hasn't handled this deal well. He told the player one thing and then did another.--Richard]
Posted by: aj at April 3, 2009 07:37 PM
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Gee, I didn't realize we were friends...I don't even know you. Along with others, I was just letting you in on what your co-worker had previously reported about Dunta's offer.
[We're not friends. People like me don't befriend people like you. You have a column, right? You're a professional journalist, right? I'm more interested in what your reporting has come up with. Oh that's right, you haven't done any reporting. You steal from others and presume it's correct. Let me give you a basic journalism lesson, junior. Get out of your mother's basement and do some work of your own. If the only source you've got is someone else's work, then you should try another line of work. You people.--Richard]
Posted by: aj at April 4, 2009 08:26 AM
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http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice...soon_know.html
Justice still has yet to confirm or deny his co-worker's report, other than to rush to assumptions and tarnish it without reason, of course.