Players cooling to Zorn

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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

If you'd like to start a spread sheet sometime in Jan 09 regarding the predictions people here make about who will be signed by the Redskins in free agency and then match it against reality, you'll find the batting average is pretty low - - not good enough to bet in the Baseball HoF. I'm not talking about people saying who they would LIKE to sign; I'm talking about predictions about what the team will do.

PFT is mainly a clearing house - - but they do break stuff once in a while and for an operation that is ever so slightly smaller than ESPN and FOX Sports, that would indicate to me that they do have some sources of their own.

Regarding current stuff, PFT is providing a far more in depth and understandable analysis of the StarCaps case than you will find at ESPN sites or at FOX sites. They are probing Ed Werder's story about the Cowboys intrigues looking to identify the source; Werder and ESPN aren't doing that.

PFT "broke" and followed through on the "Chris Landry plaigiarism" business.

PFT's coverage of the lawsuit by retired NFL players against the NFLPA and the subsequent findings about the NFLPA assets has been far better and far more extensive than anywhere else I've seen.

PFT was all over the story of the Rooney brothers being involved in gambling interests - - in violation of NFL rules -- long before that story got any national attention.

That list is off the top of my head, so there could well be some other "gems" in their postings over the past couple of months.

I am NOT saying that PFT is all good or that it is "THE place to go for NFL news". It is not. But to say that everything they post there is fabricated nonsense is simply not the case. And that is what many folks here say...

PFT does break some juicy news every once and a while. And I agree they have done a good (but pretty longwinded) job of covering the StarCaps case.

The Chris Landry plagarism bit- I found that to be ridiculously self-serving on PFT's part. Especially when they did a live blog covering the Landry interview that addressed said plagarism. IMO their entire coverage was an attempt to publicly discredit another NFL related news site, and Florio is so pompous, I certianly wouldn't put that past him. Did anyone really know who Chris Landry was prior to this case? Does anyone care who Chris Landry is now that this story is out? Come on.

Most media outlets focus far too much on the negative nowadays, but PFT takes it to the extreme. Florio rarely says anything positive about any player or team, and if he does, it usually involves some backhanded compliment or sarcastic joke. I find PFT to be a mocking, arrogant, unf-ingbelievably negative site.

And Florio does make it a regular practice to throw as much shit against the wall as possible with the hope that a high % of it sticks. I think it's funny how someone can be so amazingly skeptical, negative, and critical of players, coaches, and the league that ultimately results in him getting a paycheck and having a career.

Sometimes the rumor mill is entertaining, and sometimes the pics of the day are funny, but I won't ever refer to that stuff as good journalism.