
ESPN's DISGUSTING COVERAGE OF THE NFL DRAFT
Written by Robert Littal for http://www.blacksportsonline.com
ESPN needs to look itself in the mirror and realize they are not GOD. Just because you tell us we should love someone doesn’t mean we will. Just because for 6 weeks you told us that Brady Quinn should be the next Joe Montana doesn’t mean that we are going to believe it and when your Golden Boy doesn’t get drafted where you want him to it isn’t your job to tell us how we should feel about it.
It was sickening watching the ESPN staff fall all over themselves to protect their Golden Boy Brady Quinn. Here is a newsflash for you ESPN maybe he isn’t that good. I know that is hard for you believe but maybe he isn’t talented enough to be a Top 10 pick. Maybe the personnel men who lives are to break down film and evaluate talent came to the same conclusion that I did. Quinn is a good QB but not a franchise QB.
It made me sick to my stomach to hear Chris Berman utter these words that weren’t suppose to be heard on camera (a problem that ESPN had numerous time during the day):
“I just don’t like this”
To watch Steve Young work himself into an orgasmic state gushing over Quinn was enough to have me hit the mute button permanently. To watch Quinn after 45 interviews on the past 6 weeks all of sudden decide now he didn’t want to talk told me all I needed to know about him. When the NFL shuffled him off to the Commissioner’s “Private Quarters” so he could sob his pain away to me was utterly ridiculous. Do you think that they would have done that for JaMarcus Russell? While Quinn was crying about his falling to a later part in the 1st round. What about Dwayne Jarrett who was dropping out of the 1st round completely where was the sympathy for him? With Jarrett his slippage if you listened to ESPN was all about physical numbers, but with Quinn that didn’t matter because he has intangibles. Excuse me?
After an hour in the commish’s private quarters and a few calls from teams saying they would take Quinn soon he reemerged as a new man ready to handle all those tough questions from Suzy Kolber. When Quinn reemerged according to ESPN it was Russell Crowe coming back to battle in “Gladiator”. He was a warrior, he was a leader, he has so much composure and etc etc. This wasn’t the NFL Draft; this was the Brady Quinn Draft. ESPN became VH1 this was “Flavor of Quinn”.
Once Quinn was finally rescued by the Cleveland Browns (more on them in my draft recap) you would have thought that Cleveland had just drafted the next Peyton Manning. If you were drinking the ESPN kool-aid you would think that the Browns just made the Hershel Walker trade and that Quinn will lead them to multiple Super Bowls starting next year.....
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