A report card on the last year's media

[erod]

If you'll allow for a bit of self-indulgence, please read this take from year ago, when ProFootballTalk ranked the Cowboys as the 24th best team in the NFL heading into the season. ESPN was even worse, putting Dallas at No. 28.

http://insidethestar.com/lazy-media-baiting-trap/

Could they have possibly been more wrong? What about three consecutive 8-8 seasons could have possibly led to a conclusion of absolute implosion?

Stop and consider. Here’s a team that has gone 8-8, 8-8, and 8-8 the past three seasons, with the same QB as now, the same coach, and the same GM. That there is a trend, folks, one that should comfortably and concretely put Dallas right at or very near No. 16.

Now, add a guard to a good young line and an offense that is safely in the top 10 in the league. Then, replace a cupboard full of nobodies with at least 10 legitimate NFL defensive linemen, as well as the return of healthy starters behind them. How can that not be at least slightly better than that awful defense a year ago? Objectivity says it likely can’t.

From all that, two very popular sources of opinion just determined that Dallas is worse than the Cleveland Browns. Huh?

Most people get fired for being that wrong at their jobs. Not the media.

All this is to say, don't pay attention to the doom and gloom of Dallas' running back situation, or the whatever trumped-up crisis they create.

And likewise, pay no mind to the angle they're currently concocting to make the Eagles, Giants, and Commanders any better than they actually are.

Watch for the bull. It's gonna get deep.

 

[AbeBeta]

The prognostication is just entertainment slated for slow news weeks. It gets hits.

Fans are still talking about and linking to it.

Seems like you've shown they are doing a great job.

 

[Setackin]

TBH 75% of us saw it the same way... and we were right to think that way at the time... who would have guess muarry would have a record setting year.

 

[Plankton]

Yes.

Most teams have one opponent on any given Sunday.

The Cowboys have three - their opponents, the zebras.....

......and the evil media.

 

[DallasEast]

Games are settled on the field of play. Always have been. Always will be. Media gurus. Know-it-all fans. The wino in the alley. Doesn't matter what any of them say. The only important thing is what the team does on Sunday... and what Blandino pulls out his butt cheeks, of course.

 

[Longboysfan]

I wonder what the Commanders and Giant fans think when they are picked in the top 10 all the time and fail.....

 

[AmericasTeam81]

**** the media

 

[Doomsday101]

Games are settled on the field of play. Always have been. Always will be. Media gurus. Know-it-all fans. The wino in the alley. Doesn't matter what any of them say. The only important thing is what the team does on Sunday... and what Blandino pulls out his butt cheeks, of course.

True and so called easy schedules are not always easy and perceived hard schedules not always that hard. Every season and every game stands on it's own

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The prognostication is just entertainment slated for slow news weeks. It gets hits.

Fans are still talking about and linking to it.

Seems like you've shown they are doing a great job.

Depend on whether you prefer objectivity and accuracy or if you prefer they get hits.

That is the point: they value hits no matter how non committal or specious the claim.

 

[waving monkey]

If you'll allow for a bit of self-indulgence, please read this take from year ago, when ProFootballTalk ranked the Cowboys as the 24th best team in the NFL heading into the season. ESPN was even worse, putting Dallas at No. 28.

http://insidethestar.com/lazy-media-baiting-trap/

Could they have possibly been more wrong? What about three consecutive 8-8 seasons could have possibly led to a conclusion of absolute implosion?



Most people get fired for being that wrong at their jobs. Not the media.

All this is to say, don't pay attention to the doom and gloom of Dallas' running back situation, or the whatever trumped-up crisis they create.

And likewise, pay no mind to the angle they're currently concocting to make the Eagles, Giants, and Commanders any better than they actually are.

Watch for the bull. It's gonna get deep.

yap they gotta write something and they have to write something often ,thats the rub

 

[Garrettop]

TBH 75% of us saw it the same way... and we were right to think that way at the time... who would have guess muarry would have a record setting year.

There was no intelligent analysis behind 5> win predictions.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Over the past few years, I find myself reading mainstream NFL media less and less for this very reason. I find that everything I need to know about the Cowboys I can get here and from the local/team reporters. It's a shame so many reporters allow their agendas or dislike for the Cowboys to get in the way of unbiased reporting. I must confess though that I do get a kick keeping track of the various power rankings, especially when the Cowboys rise to the top!!

 

[Thefeelofcotton]

I get it, the media are there to garner hits for their respective sites. To do that they have to have 1) good tag lines to draw people in and 2) go with whatever is popular at the moment. Usually when it relates to #2 bashing the cowboys is always at the top of the list for these reasons:

1) Everyone loves to hate on the Cow boys, so Cowboy haters will read it so they can beat their chest about how they're right and so and so from ESPN agrees with them.
2) The hardcore Cowboys optimists will go read whatever article and vehemently disagree, saying so in the comments section which again, drives hits.

If someone hates on the Raiders, well, the only people who care are Raiders fans. No one gives a rats behind about the Raiders outside of Oakland. The Patriots are a recently popular target, but that's because they've been consistently successful and the media needed to bring their prodigal son down to earth. Once that storm dies down, or the Pats fall into mediocrity once Brady retires no one will care about the Patriots.

The Cowboys, even when going 5-11 three straight years, garner attention and will be a big media draw, much like the Yankees and Red Wings. I just let everything roll off my back and let the Cowboys play do the talking for me. If we suck, we suck, if we dominate then we dominate. I live in Virginia and have to deal with the uber, and I mean UBER, jealous Commanders fans always making some off handed comment about my Cowboys gear. I tell them, "would you be happy with a 2-14 record if you beat the Cowboys twice?" every single one of them says, "Hell yes! Without a doubt." I respond by saying, "See, that's difference between the Cowboys and Commanders. I would be totally fine with going 14-2 and losing to the "Skins twice, if it meant the Cowboys won the Super Bowl." They usually get a look of "Wait, he's right. Championships ARE more important than team wins." Then I just walk away, knowing I won that argument. Either way, I don't let haters get to me.

 

[Nav22]

I think most people are picking Dallas to win the division this year.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The media's job in the end is to impact the bottom line.

That's why they don't lose their job despite an incorrect prognostication. I have no problem with an incorrect prognostication unless that is what the writer is based solely to do. Those writers have enough wrong prognostications and now it's a hurt to their credibility which hurts their chances of getting people to view their predictions which impacts the bottom line.

Where the media 'keeps their job' while other jobs people would get fired is that the bottom lines of much of the media are declining. The newspaper industry is just about dead. Sports radio hit its peak about 10 years ago and has been gradually declining into its own death. Even SportsCenter has reportedly seen substantial declining ratings. Yet, these media members still keep their jobs.

Of course, one could say that the internet is where the media belongs and that is doing well. But, I don't see any reason to lead me to believe that channel will not eventually decline massively as well.

I think it's easy to see. You have too many newspapers, radio and TV shows that are clown acts with little credibility. Sure, they will spike circulation numbers and ratings, but after a while it burns out the audience and they get fed up with it. It has a longevity issue because every column, radio and TV show starts to look and sound the same and without credibility to always keep the fans to tune in.






YR

 

[RS12]

A report card on the last year's media

You must be incredibly bored.

 

[scottsp]

From our perspective, this may be a slap, but handicapping the NFL from year-to-year is a virtual impossibility. This sort of thing serves only for purposes of entertainment (for some) because there is no real value in it.

Besides, many years I have seen Dallas viewed as an NFC contender only to come up short in December. The media's take didn't bother me then. Know why? Because I got it wrong, too.

 

[Doomsday101]

The media's job in the end is to impact the bottom line.

That's why they don't lose their job despite an incorrect prognostication. I have no problem with an incorrect prognostication unless that is what the writer is based solely to do. Those writers have enough wrong prognostications and now it's a hurt to their credibility which hurts their chances of getting people to view their predictions which impacts the bottom line.

Where the media 'keeps their job' while other jobs people would get fired is that the bottom lines of much of the media are declining. The newspaper industry is just about dead. Sports radio hit its peak about 10 years ago and has been gradually declining into its own death. Even SportsCenter has reportedly seen substantial declining ratings. Yet, these media members still keep their jobs.

Of course, one could say that the internet is where the media belongs and that is doing well. But, I don't see any reason to lead me to believe that channel will not eventually decline massively as well.

I think it's easy to see. You have too many newspapers, radio and TV shows that are clown acts with little credibility. Sure, they will spike circulation numbers and ratings, but after a while it burns out the audience and they get fed up with it. It has a longevity issue because every column, radio and TV show starts to look and sound the same and without credibility to always keep the fans to tune in.






YR

Where I have issues with media in recent era is they are more concerned to be the 1st to report something than they are about being right. To me the media should be able to provide facts and verify before going to press with it. Now days that seldom happens it is about getting the report out before anyone else, facts be damned

 

[erod]

Where I have issues with media in recent era is they are more concerned to be the 1st to report something than they are about being right. To me the media should be able to provide facts and verify before going to press with it. Now days that seldom happens it is about getting the report out before anyone else, facts be damned

This Brady case is a great example. There are about 100 different story lines on this right now. You have to throw out everything from Boston, because those folks only report with their Steve Grogan jerseys on. You can't listen to New York, because too much Jets/Giants/Bills bias is there.

It's as if not a single reporter is approaching the story with any objectivity whatsoever.

You have to read all media just to sort out an "average" of the facts. It's ridiculous.

 

[Doomsday101]

This Brady case is a great example. There are about 100 different story lines on this right now. You have to throw out everything from Boston, because those folks only report with their Steve Grogan jerseys on. You can't listen to New York, because too much Jets/Giants/Bills bias is there.

It's as if not a single reporter is approaching the story with any objectivity whatsoever.

You have to read all media just to sort out an "average" of the facts. It's ridiculous.

Pretty much or people in the media can stop being lazy and actually do real reporting. I doubt that will happen anytime soon