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[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I'll defer to you on the actual demand for their services, but you read the bios and it will say something like "Jeremy Green was a scout for an NFL team for x years." To my knowledge, and I don't know the internal structure of Scouts Inc, so I won't speak on that, the ESPN.com/Scouts Inc. writers are people who are absolutely not wanted by any NFL team, regardless of their past experience.

Not even remotely true that they are not wanted by any NFL team. Case in point, the Broncos just hired Keith Kidd to be their director of pro scouting.

Then you read the content, and it's just common knowledge, reputation, favor-driven bollocks.

It's not that ESPN.com doesn't have plenty of quality content, obviously they're the worldwide leader for a reason. I just prefer not to pay to read poorly informed opinions. I can read Clayton/Mortenson for free, so that's what I do.

I sense that the poorly informed for you means opinions you don't agree with. That's fine I guess. Your absolute confidence in yourself I'm sure will get you where you want to go.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Not even remotely true that they are not wanted by any NFL team. Case in point, the Broncos just hired Keith Kidd to be their director of pro scouting.

Duely noted. I was unaware of that.

I sense that the poorly informed for you means opinions you don't agree with. That's fine I guess. Your absolute confidence in yourself I'm sure will get you where you want to go.

Nope. I may be guilty of generalizing all people who write for scouts inc into one group, but ESPN charges for their content so they should be (in theory) held to a higher standard.

Whatever the standard was supposed to be, I feel pretty confident that they haven't upheld it.

It's not like I'm trying to be mean here, it's that oftentimes, they'll produce totally (seemingly) unedited stuff. There are free blogs all over the internet, hundreds upon hundreds of draft sites, some even with media credentials, that easily produce quality at an equal or greater level than ESPN makes you pay for.

I don't expect you to not defend them or something, but it seems to me (an outsider) that if you are going to charge for your content, there should be something special or desirable about it.