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I respect the job journalists have. However, I often am incensed at the way they go about writing the ultimate product. Greg Bedard at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an article titled Spiraling In Control posted on June 20th, 2009 makes the following observations:
He states that with Rodgers the Packers fell from 13-3 to 6-10 and in eight losses, were within a touchdown up or down at the beginning of the fourth quarter. He then tells us that given his statistical performance this can't be Rodgers fault, but that wins and losses are what count and that's just too bad for Rodgers. He tells us in the middle of the story that he does not believe his own story's premise, but he makes only the feeblest attempt to defend his assertion.
This is how a coward writes. He makes no attempt to shuffle through the debacle, the sometimes conflicting data and results. He does not do a good job of understanding where Rodgers fell short, not to mention looking at other areas of the team. If your editor insisted on an article on Rodgers, then you really should not submarine your own piece by telling us you don't trust its central fact mid-story.
An actual reporter would have dug into the vast and confusing number of reasons for the backtrack by the team. He might have to write an article about some other player or position on the team.
Let's do his job for him.
1. Poor judgments about the defensive line. I was already concerned about the pass rush prior to 2007, a season when Kampman, a part-time pass rush KGB and Corey Williams looked like men possessed. But Jenkins, Williams, Jolly and KGB got banged up and it wasn't the same pass rush by the end of the season. Going into 2008, KGB was coming off surgery, Jenkins might have proven he could not play at 100% all season and Williams was gone. Where we thought we had run stuffing depth was disproved after Pickett developed a bad arm and the run defense collapsed, especially after Jenkins was lost for the season. We knew there was little depth in pass rush from 2007, in 2008 we knew there was little depth in run D on the line.
No team can carry NFL starter depth at every position. But in Sanders defense, he needed a pass rush and run D from his front four in standard matchups. We did not have those players in 2008.
Your turn, someone do Reason #2 why the Packers Fell to 6-10.
He states that with Rodgers the Packers fell from 13-3 to 6-10 and in eight losses, were within a touchdown up or down at the beginning of the fourth quarter. He then tells us that given his statistical performance this can't be Rodgers fault, but that wins and losses are what count and that's just too bad for Rodgers. He tells us in the middle of the story that he does not believe his own story's premise, but he makes only the feeblest attempt to defend his assertion.
This is how a coward writes. He makes no attempt to shuffle through the debacle, the sometimes conflicting data and results. He does not do a good job of understanding where Rodgers fell short, not to mention looking at other areas of the team. If your editor insisted on an article on Rodgers, then you really should not submarine your own piece by telling us you don't trust its central fact mid-story.
An actual reporter would have dug into the vast and confusing number of reasons for the backtrack by the team. He might have to write an article about some other player or position on the team.
Let's do his job for him.
1. Poor judgments about the defensive line. I was already concerned about the pass rush prior to 2007, a season when Kampman, a part-time pass rush KGB and Corey Williams looked like men possessed. But Jenkins, Williams, Jolly and KGB got banged up and it wasn't the same pass rush by the end of the season. Going into 2008, KGB was coming off surgery, Jenkins might have proven he could not play at 100% all season and Williams was gone. Where we thought we had run stuffing depth was disproved after Pickett developed a bad arm and the run defense collapsed, especially after Jenkins was lost for the season. We knew there was little depth in pass rush from 2007, in 2008 we knew there was little depth in run D on the line.
No team can carry NFL starter depth at every position. But in Sanders defense, he needed a pass rush and run D from his front four in standard matchups. We did not have those players in 2008.
Your turn, someone do Reason #2 why the Packers Fell to 6-10.
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