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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Regardless of what comes from the media, we also watch every game, and a lot of us watch every game 2-3 times and pick apart every play. I'll take a well informed fan's opinion over Joe Schmoe Yahoo.com sports writer any day.

The fact is most fans have a better idea of what's going on with their team than most journalists in the media, unless we're talking about local journalists that are focused on the Skins like the Wash. Post, Wash. Times, etc.

Watching a game over and over only allows a fan to talk about specific plays and who blocked good or missed a tackle. I guess thats a type of being informed but speaking for me, thats not really the stuff I care about too much. The non-player game watcher does not know details of the game plan going into the game, how/if it was revised during the game, etc. They can hypothesize but thats about it.

I do agree that national reporters have a superficial knowledge of teams and could never talk play by play with a film watching fan but IMO they are both providing guesses.

Nobody knows the team better than the local media as they are as close as one can get without putting on pads. I trusted George Michael & Sonny's opinion most.