Quote:
Originally Posted by HPF Bob
So you must ignore John Harris since he's just a team mouthpiece? I prefer someone who actually knows some team sources and attends practices rather than someone who just puts numbers in a cuisinart and believes brilliance comes out.
If they are too pollyanna, like Harris, I just take it and feed it through a reality check before I buy into it but at least I'm hearing from somebody who is there.
|
I just don't like guys whose career depends on access, because access depends on teams being happy. This means they can't ever be anything but a mouthpiece. So you aren't hearing from someone who is there, you are hearing what someone who is there wants you to hear. And the NFL is absolutely the worst about this. NFL teams are run by control freaks obsessed with controlling what is said in the media. So they 'leak' things to tame journalists to control the narrative. That's how every guy who leaves a team gets character assassinated after he's gone.
Barnwell is definitely too stat heavy sometimes, but he does plenty of stuff that isn't. Guys like Werder and Clayton only do "here's what my sources are telling me" stuff.