Why Cowboys Fans Should Quit Watching ESPN

[dcstands4]

Good read from another blog...what do ya think?

Outside of those directly effected within the organization, you would be hard pressed to find someone more than me who is more fed up with the constant mediocrity that has plagued the Cowboys over the last 15 years. Maybe that is why I am sensitive to the negativity that is spewed towards my franchise. I do not think I am being overly unfair when I say that the thoughts and opinions being projected have to be at least partially based on negative bias.

We’ll start with Ron Jaworski and his quarterback rankings. He says he broke down every single pass thrown in 2012 to come up with his best quarterbacks going into 2013. The usual suspects (Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, etc.) are on top as you would imagine. The “young guns” (Luck, Kaepernick, Wilson and RGIII) show up in spots 10-13 but where is our overly scrutinized and oft criticized Tony Romo? 15th. Exactly average and below other quarterbacks such as Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Schaub and Jay Cutler. I honestly do not know if this is a joke or the ultimate slap in the face.


Full:
http://thelandryhat.com/2013/07/28/why-cowboys-fans-should-quit-watching-espn/

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Please don't tar and feather me when I say this, but the media bias angle is overblown, in my opinion. Media coverage on the Cowboys isn't positive because the results we've seen on the field of late are sub par. The two are directly related.

 

[CowboyStar88]

It's ESPN shock journalism at its finest. The only good about ESPN is when they do the 30 for 30 stuff other then that most of the "reporting" is garbage is all based in emotion and not factual. You will never get balanced "reporting" from biased people.

 

[RS12]

Winning trumps everything. That is all.

 

[DC Cowboy]

Please don't tar and feather me when I say this, but the media bias angle is overblown, in my opinion. Media coverage on the Cowboys isn't positive because the results we've seen on the field of late are sub par. The two are directly related.

 

[lane]

Please don't tar and feather me when I say this, but the media bias angle is overblown, in my opinion. Media coverage on the Cowboys isn't positive because the results we've seen on the field of late are sub par. The two are directly related.

what if i agree..but tar and feather is still a viable option?

 

[JWitten]

When Dan and Keith left I slowly stopped watching ESPN all together. With the NFL and MLB having their own networks I don't even miss it anymore. It seems they want to sensationalize everything anymore and I just want the highlights.

 

[Idgit]

National media coverage of the Cowboys is binary. When we're not a top contender, it's overwhelmingly negative. When we are, it's overwhelmingly positive in the opposite direction. This is only to tap into the strong feelings of love and hate that the Cowboys engender in NFL fans. It has little to do with any agenda, and it's only loosely tied to the team's prospects.

Local media coverage is just bad because so many of the guys doing the job aren't any good at what they do, and you can see them manipulating stories one way or another in order to affect readership. It's tacky and manipulative and aimed at influencing ignorant people, which is why so many find it offensive.

 

[big dog cowboy]

All this has worked my last nerve with ESPN. I will certainly no longer be using them for any football purposes outside of their fantasy league

This truly made me laugh.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

what if i agree..but tar and feather is still a viable option?

Yes. But you have to find and catch me first.

 

[TwoDeep3]

What astounds me is people quote blogs by fans as gospel and rail against the enterprises that do have reporters and inside contacts.

The LandryHat is a fan site. So their opinion I can get here from a half dozen other people who usually have more knowledge than the writers there.

As far as ESPN, there is information there worth gleaning.

I don't take every word they say as burning bush, nor do I get offended when they make a remark.

I tend to be much more antagonistic with people like Dale Hanson of the local press who makes 600K a year to air his complaints about Jerry for being fired because he is a blow hole.

But in the big scheme of things this team flows within the yin and yang of commentary. Win and things will be roses.

Don't and it is usually the steaming matter that fall from a tall bull's butt.

 

[landryscorner]

I dont watch espn haven't for a long time...but if you suck as a team and have no positive things going on for how long? and that includes drafts what do you expect from the media???? How great we are?? How awesome are defense is? How our Offense is a scoring maching? Just go back and look at our seasons man what did you expect?

 

[Avery]

I have a hard time reading a lot of fansite blogs as well as ESPN articles for essentially the same reasons. Many of these sites such as SBNation, Bleacher Report, etc. are just regular joes who are not professional journalists weighing their opinions on things. Many of these writers craft 'shock' pieces to generate hits to their page (the more page views = more money for them) or puff pieces that accomplish the same thing. The quality varies widely from writer to writer.

Professional journalists are no different; how do you get hacks like Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless or any of the DMN retreads at ESPN that spin an article about how horrible Romo has done in the playoffs and in big games yet three days later will flaunt how fantastic and exciting and that 'this is the year' he takes a step forward and cements himself as an elite QB. They're consistently inconsistent.

Trust the product that you see with your own eyes vs. relying on others to tell you how to think.

 

[KJJ]

All I had to do was read the title of the thread to know what the theme is. Maybe if the Cowboys wouldn't keep going 8-8 and missing the playoffs ESPN would have some positive things to say do you think? Cowboy FANS put more stock in their own biased opinions and the biased opinions of other Cowboy FANS than they do the experts some of which actually played the game.

 

[Pandora]

What a terrible, terrible article. The author is as inarticulate as Calvin Watkins and Bryan Broaddus combined.

His whole argument seems to be "I don't like what they write, so I won't read it - and neither should you." And that really isn't worth commenting on.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I would rather someone not like ESPN because it gets on their last nerve and therefore make an intelligent decision to quit watching it. As opposed to someone who hates ESPN but continues to keep ESPN in business by watching it over and over even though they say they hate it.

People at places like ESPN get as much out of people who hate them but have no ability to quit watching them as they do those that do like them...especially people like Skip and Stephen A Smith.

With that said I think the title of the article should be Why SOME Cowboys fans should quit watching ESPN.

 

[TX_Yid]

I haven't watched ESPN since Ed Werder went after Terrell Owens. They aren't a "news" organization, they are producing whatever TV they can to get people to watch. It is ALL about ratings for them.

It's like a gossip column for high schoolers. I get 100 times the information from reading this site alone.

 

[Tobal]

I don't watch ESPN and its more about the content in general, it's like their magazine. 100 pages and 3 of those pages interest me. I like Mort so I watch his show and enjoy it for the most part.

 

[Seven]

Please don't tar and feather me when I say this, but the media bias angle is overblown, in my opinion. Media coverage on the Cowboys isn't positive because the results we've seen on the field of late are sub par. The two are directly related.

I agree. When the article begins with the obvious......mediocrity, which is generous, IMO.......what other conclusion is there? What are they supposed to report? As falls Whichita Falls...... so falls Wichita, right?


FTR - I havent watched espn in years. Not to jump on a band wagon or to agree with a faction but because I think the show is immature and completely void of any professionalism. It's a tabloid, IMO.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Outside of some sports programming and those 30 for 30 shows, I just watch Mike and Mike in the morning... And in a pinch, I'll watching ESPNNews.

Everything else, I don't bother watching. It's not even about perceived Cowboys hate or whatever, I just don't particularly care for the format used on many of the sports networks. Not a big fan of folks debating manufactured stories with manufactured opinions.