It was in regards to Garrett giving his former teammate and Buck the 'scoop' on Tyron's back. Broaddus said he should have asked Garrett in the presser if it were true that he gave a tidbit to the national media, and then said it's fine if Garrett wants to act this way, but it's on him and on the media in general to start asking harder questions.
As if Jason Garrett is going to be stumped by something Brian Broaddus squeezes out regarding what he said to Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. Jason would drive right around that question and any follow ups like he was in slow motion. I don't understand why the local media thinks they're entitled to a story like that, anyway. Sure, it makes sense that they get first crack at most stories due to proximity alone, but the team hardly owes them right of first refusal on every back injury inside scoop. None of the fans care who broke that particular story, anyway.
They think they're entitled because that's the way this was set up from the beginning. Two writers, Frank Luksa and Blackie Sherrod, were very objective and had a balance for the locals to feel OK about their teams and they did this for the Rangers as well. When August would get here and it was time for the Rangers to break our hearts again, they would try and soften the blow as they went through it with us. They did the same with the Cowboys through the bad and good times.
When Booger arrived, he began an all out obvious campaign to get the media on his side and get as much gratis promotion as he could get. So he bent over backwards to schmooze the locals to try and limit the damage firing Landry did only those two didn't bite. Plenty did, Hansen and Galloway led the buffet line and had plenty of company. Blackie nicknamed Booger Smiley and it wasn't an endearing nickname as they knew his motives and were insulted that he could buy them with free booze and food. Luksa once commented to another writer for the DMN that he wouldn't shake hands with Jones with a watch on his wrist or buy a used car from him.
But this access to the Cowboys was a new gift they'd been given and there wasn't anyplace they couldn't go. They got spoiled with Booger's media access making them lazy and just assumed they were the chosen few. They got national bylines and interviews because they were "in the know". Lady JaGa just threw that in their faces with the SF and he may have done it on purpose. I don't think he was happy last year when the media was in his own locker room driving one of his players to the point of exploding. Like most of us feel, that's pushing it too far. But he doesn't control the locker room, Booger does and makes his own players open game for these people.
They acted like children when he blind sided them but hadn't Booger spoiled them to that point? They had every reason to believe they would get the story first. A word of caution to those vermin, He's got that team at 3-1 and is well liked in the community, better be careful how they try to play hardball as he's smarter than every one of them. Lady JaGa needs to develop he's own "look". Landry had it for players and Parcells had it for reporters, especially that moron Steve Dennis. Just stare at them in silence for a few seconds without that trademark smile and maybe let out an exaggerated breath.
