El Guapo
Cheesehead
I'm not usually a big fan of the media, but Tom certainly threw the grenade right back to the sender on this one.
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/pack...nesday-at-a-glance-b99325324z1-270262581.htmlTHUMBS DOWN
General manager Ted Thompson let the media know — again — that he doesn't like them doing stories predicting who is going to make the roster. He said most of the time they're wrong and he feels it's offensive to make a player competing for a job have to read that he might be cut. Thompson is right that there are jobs on the line and players feel pressure from family and friends to make the team. Maybe roster predictions add to that. And certainly the media has its faults. But anyone who works in the NFL needs to have the hypocrisy buzzer pushed on them any time they lecture on insensitivity to players. These are the same guys who make the players strip down to their underwear in front of dozens of scouts at the combine, take medical reports of players and share them with other teams, ostracize players who don't attend "voluntary" workouts, fight with agents over a few dollars in injury settlements and force an injured player such as receiver Jared Abbrederis to take a pay cut even though he busted his butt in camp and got hurt on the job. Players might not like what's written about them, but they face far more indignities from the NFL system than they do someone's roster prediction.