Does anyone here get it? This team is declaring itself off-limits not only to the media, but to you the fans as well. You can watch them, but if you want to know what they were thinking when they made a good (or bad) play, what they think of the new direction of the club, etc., you are out of luck. Bellichek and Parcells never banned media discussion with the players. Assistant coaches, yes, because they didn't want anyone on their staff taking the spotlight away from them, but I don't remember reading about LT or Tom Brady ducking a gaggle of reporters. If Mangini is so afraid of letting his players talk to the press now, what does that say for him as a coach? I gotta agree with the beat guys on this one, that was a bad first day of camp.
Wow, are you :drunk: ? The Pats do not let players talk to the media EXCEPT for the times mandated by the league!!! This isn't one of them, so there you go. I do not need the NY Post writer in order to get team information.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Cimini had the same complaint. Holy Cr*p, this rules. :lol: http://forums.theganggreen.com/showthread.php?t=9033 I'll give Canned Ham the same line. Just wait until someone tells him it's a privilege for him to talk to anyone on the team as a joke (rubs hands together)! HAH!
I dislike it when the media itself tries to become the story. Just cover the news, don't try to become the news. Nothing like a self-centered, self-important reporter.
Here's mine Mark, As a Jets fan and season ticket holder let me take this opportunity to appoligize for the entire Jets organization for them not immediatly running over to kiss your ass yesterday. Obviously the new staff doesn't know nearly as much about football as KC Edwards. With Qb and RB questions they should know their time is best spent sucking up to you and not concentrating on silly stuff like training and the new playbook. Without Herm babbling on endlessly to you guys when taking a break from the KC real estsate ads, maybe this year you may have to actually do some actual investigative reporting instead of sitting around some press room getting spoon fed free grub and free info.
The bottom line is that these reporters simply don't understand that this is part of an overall plan and well defined strategy. This isn't the first time the media has been witness to the new regime withholding information. It seems obvious and simple, don't give out any information that could possibly help your opponents beat you. I'm not saying Brick would be giving out all kinds of infromation on game plan or specific strategies, but why give him to opportunity to give out something the opponents may be able to use against us? Either these guys are too stupid to see this or they just can't handle the fact that they're going to have to work harder and be a little creative now. They need to get over it and get used to it.
No, I'm not :drunk: Why is this a bad time for the Jets to talk to the media? What is it that they have to keep secret? Is this not in fact the best time for players to meet the press, when there is nothing bad going on? Does it not worry you a little bit that a player like Ray Mickens might be fined for merely offering some pleasant comment on the need for a new direction? If you think the press is so awful, why don't you move to North Korea. They're great at observing mandates!
That's fine. We're not going to get any good info from the players anyway. We get cliches and human interest crap, that's it. The only time I care to listen to the players is after games in the locker room or in press conferences. Anything until then is going to be garbage.
Just completed an email to Cannizzaro, here is what I wrote: Mr. Cannizzaro, Your most recent article, entitled "EMBARRASSING DISPLAY MARS 1ST DAY," could very well be one of the weakest pieces of sports journalism I have ever read. It shows a complete lack of creativity and exposes utter laziness. As a reporter, a writer, gathering news for an audience that is most likely comprised of Jets fans why would you neglect to use this opportunity more productively? You could have written about the positive aspects of what you saw/experienced, for example: "... Clearly, this young coach is drawing upon every bit of methodology that he has learned from Parcells/Belichik and employing it to the utmost. D'Brickshaw running away to avoid the press was a clear example of Mangini's influence and command over this young team. Hopefully, in time the younger players will learn to find a happy medium between the coaches "gag order" and attending to the fans and media, but on this day the new coach wins out and that's a good thing for the Jets and their fans..." Instead you chose to write an article that is smothered with negativity, from the scorned point of journalist that didn't get a real story. Boo-hoo. You lost sight of who your audience is and you would be hard-pressed to find anyone that will empathize with you on the receiving end of your whining diatribe of an article. I hope, for your sake, that you can take a step back and weigh this constructive criticism against the work you are doing. Consider the difference it would make in your writing if you took the initiative to find a positive slant to put on your reporting, rather than the negative. Nobody likes a pessimist, or a whiner. Good luck.
I agree that this is not exactly quality time for the media, or those that follow them. It's the precedent that worries me. I don't want the team kept behind an iron curtain all season.
I don't think anyone on the team should talk to Cannizzaro at all this season. I can see it now: reporter #1 asks D'Brick how his day was and he gives him a long explaination and the Cannizzaro asks well what do you think about TC so far and D'Brick says No comment!!!!
Yet another story from Cannizarro where the members of the media, and not the Jets, are the story. If he is not able to come up with any other story line about the Jets, he should find another job. Cannizarro has zero credibility left in my book, after he made the ridiculous Herm Edwards seem like Vince Lombardi when the Jets let him go, and after Cannizarro picks the Jets to win every week (and best bets them with spread in the Post pool). He is the least knowledgeable and least talented Jets beat writer, hands down.
Good analysis of the difference between talking a good game and playing one! Herm was quite the talker, wasn't he? I think I like our new regime, even if the local media isn't so happy about it!
ROFL - I have literally burst out laughing 3 times reading this thread. Good stuff! Hmmmm, maybe Penny wasn't the only one thinking media coverage is a privledge, not an obligation. :up:
Speaking of that, I hope no one around this thread was arguing with me a couple weeks ago about how I said Penny was fully justified, and right, about what he said. I know there were quite a number of people up in arms that felt he had no right tell the media it was a privledge to cover the Jets.
Ha! Yes, there was a lot pissing and moaning on that topic when he came out and said it. I have always thought he was justified myself, but there were a few that thought otherwise. Folks right now probably have a tendency to want to be positive and optimistic though about the new changes. It can be easy to agree now about the media, but may have seen it differently when we were losing or playing poorly when Penny said it.
