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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
Exactly. So you had prior views and they were confirmed by an article that could just as easily be made-up fan fiction based on the same priors you already had.
There are only 32 head coaching jobs in the NFL. They require a lot more than just being an OC to attain. Entirely possible he wasn't a good interview. Entirely possible his past at Colorado hurt him. Entirely possible his other history hurt him. And entirely possible he wasn't able to escape from said history and get out from under the shadow of Andy Reid and the wing of Patrick Mahomes.
I never thought EB was that special because I felt he was largely a product of Mahomes. Same as I felt Fangio would've never been Broncos coach had the Bears not traded for Khalil Mack.
But you don't get to write an article that reads like you're sophisticated journalists and it's okay if only 50% of what you have to share is true and the other 50% is made up. That's the problem here.
I somehow don't think Clay and Marty became the KC Woodward and Bernstein and outscooped every other journalist who would've loved to break this news if it were true. I think their standards were rock bottom, they took what was given to them, and they wove a narrative that they felt suited their purposes and "made sense" based on their priors and the priors of a lot of the fanbase.
There's nothing admirable about that.
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My prior views were confirmed by prior articles written years ago at his jobs at different schools and seeing some of the behavior displayed his time here only adds to that.
If other journalists in town actually did their job maybe this article doesn't get written but the truth is the media in this town is so bad and to have one guy take time to make an account on here and offer one response? Kinda odd.
I also disagree with you on Albright. He's broke some pretty big stories like Tua last summer, Ruggs, etc. I can understand why you think the story was done in poor taste I just find it a bit ironic these local media folks are acting like it's so outrageous yet all there shows were gladly covering it today for ratings.