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Old 01-21-2014, 01:08 PM   #47
Jason Moyer
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I've grown to realize I hate sports reporting in general. 99.9% of it consists of either a.) former athletes who've put all of their energy into being good at a sport and think that that makes them better analysts than people who have dedicated their time into actually analyzing sports and b.) people with strong opinions about sports who are somehow qualified to analyze sports because they went to school for communications. Pretty much the only people in sports reporting who I can stand anymore are actual critical analysts (i.e. Bill Barnwell, etc) and the opinions of ex-coaches/GM's. Tony Dungy or Bill Cowher? Not my favorite media guys, but I could still listen to them talk about football all day long. Boomer Esiason or Erin Andrews? Not so much.

I'll give you an example here. Last night I was listening to a large, national radio show and the host kept saying that Belichick was outcoached in the AFC championship game. No facts to back that up, no explanation of why he was saying that, no answer to the question "IS THAT TRUE?", just a strong opinion without any sort of knowledge or experience to back it up, where an actual critical analysis of Belichick's play calling or game strategy would be interesting and useful.
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