Your bordering on a obsession need to try to discredit DR's reporting on this board is really pushing political levels of blatant hateful bias in this thread. Almost like you are suffering from "RDS" Starting with your complete misrepresentation of "damning evidence" in the form of Jeudy's following comments on the trade, and a implication of what it would actually "prove". Which seems to purposely fail to consider in the common sense deduction value involved of him being a player piece involved, and not somebody who was probably going to be a direct part of any trade negotiation that took place: “To be honest, I don’t believe it. I think that’s fake news, for real,” Jeudy said. “Why would somebody look at Madden rating. Be real. I don’t think that real, but it’s funny.”
Players and their agents are often involved actually, and Jeudy himself not believing while is not a proof, it's a data point to consider. It wasn't just that though, you seem to have purposely dropped that I also mentioned that the very guy she pointed out about low Madden ratings (Simpson) was signed on the very 1st day of the tampering period as our very first FA. You are trying to show someone "purposely fail to consider in the common sense deduction" by purposely failing to consider common sense deduction. That was a bigger point that you ignored on purpose, like an absolute hypocrite. And you feel the need to defend her now that much more reputable sources refuted another one of her failed "reports". I was right about her all along and you are as gullible as they come. "Be real. I don’t think that real, but it’s funny." Learn something from Jeudy. Or you are suffering from "BDS" ?
"Messenger" LOL. The whole point is that the message is made up and reputable folks are now saying it. But yeah, I don't like false "reporting" and whenever it happens, I will shit on her once in a while. No biggie Woody deserves plenty of blame too and I shit on him all the time, but only for the things he actually did, not made up by someone.
listen the so-called beat writers have been nowhere to be found for years. They write fluff pieces only. They were afraid to report on the Jets and get their access revoked. In some ways Dianna has been the only one with balls enough to report on anything. It doesn’t surprise me that others in the media are trying to refute her. They don’t like when someone new does their job better than them
Did they revoke her access though? I don't think so - certainly I see Blatt still there in spite of putting his name a lot next to Russini on numerous hit pieces. And also - you think Rapsheet or NFL network cares about access there? Of course not. She is not doing her job any better than anyone, quite the opposite - she is after juicy pieces, no matter how bad or illogical it sounds. If some "source" tells her what she wants to hear, that's all it takes. And now much more reputable folks who have no horse in the race have refuted her as well. Time admit when it comes to the Jets reporting she is full of shit and has always been. To me, unless corroborated by someone more reputable, can't trust these people. And yes if she or anyone else write some stupid shit about the team that doesn't make any sense, I can point it out, nothing wrong with that.
Your "Simpson had a bad madden rating" retort is actually another complete misrepresentation data point as well. With nobody (including DR) but you conveniently claiming what it could/would/should "prove" at face value."If it happened once it should be happen every time" isn't the common sense take there man. Again, your apparent need to hate there seems to be driving your entire view on anything she ever reports imo. One could also argue and/or point out that the Athletic's reporting on this Rodgers saga, from day 1 on, has actually been a lot more consistent with it's driving points then most before and after takes out there. Including your own.
This. The last few years was an utterly gross look imo on a lot of the people regularly covering this team and while all that crap was being shoveled on to us.
Someone needed to tell Jets fans about Brick Johnson. Connor Hughes was too busy fluffing up the team and Cimini would be more likely to write an article about how they decided to draft Keyshawn Johnson in 1996 before he tells fans about Brick Johnson in 2025… Russini is the only one with balls
All we know is that whomever made the proclamation that AR was asked to stop the Pat show at the meeting was absolutely, positively full of shit and there is zero evidence to that. Time to move on.
I don’t know about the reporting or what not, but honestly to me, it’s not very hard at all to believe that a team owner’s son would play Madden and would look at the rating and tell his dad about it. There is nothing in that talk track that is SO out of line…it’s totally believable. Thousands of people play Madden…hundreds of thousands. The ratings are a well known thing…shit, players themselves look at them and get offended when their rankings aren’t as high as they think they should be. So yeah, I do believe Brick plays Madden and looks at the ratings. And I do believe that he’d talk about it with his dad. And more fully, I DO believe that Woody is STUPID enough to give it a lot of credence. In fact, to be honest about it, I’d trust Madden’s player ratings over Woody’s any day of the week and twice on Sundays. So yeah, the only crazy part about the story is not so much that Brick (a) plays Madden, and (b) looks at the ratings, and (c) tells his dad about the ratings. That’s not so crazy. The really CRAZY part is that a dipshit owner like Woody would pay attention to those ratings and talk about them with his hand picked chosen professional talent evaluators about it. THAT’s the crazy part. That Woody would go to his GM and ask him to explain why he wants to sign or trade a player with a Madden rating of XX. But you know what, I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past this dumbfuck waster of an owner. So yeah, I don’t know with proof that it happens, but man on man I sure can believe it would. Because Woody is THAT fucking idiotic. I really have no words for how poorly I think of Woody and his “leadership” of the Jets. I think he’s an idiot who has hardly ever made the right decision. I think he’s a fucking clown that doesn’t learn from his mistakes and I hate so much that he happens to own the team I have grown up supporting and rooting for all my life and there’s not a damn thing I can do to get him out of our fucking lives.
You are just rambling at this point. Simpson was one of very few people specifically mentioned in the article for having low Madden rating, and yet we ended up with him as the very 1st signing on the very 1st day. If you are unable to follow the logic of contradiction here, your sense is anything but common. It's also kind of silly to say I hate her for pointing out that her inaccurate Jets reporting has now been refuted by actual credible folks in the industry. Learn something and don't be so gullible to these "reports" in the future. If you can.
Come on now, what balls are you talking about? Dick Chimney has criticized the Jets a lot. Besides, Russini is not even a Jets beat writer, she is a national "reporter", who for some reason focuses mostly on the Jets to the point you thought she was a Jets beat writer. LOL. And there is plenty of national reporters who love to shit on the Jets too. Have you heard of Florio and Cowherd? There is plenty of others too, now we can just add one more to the list, that's all. That's right, not balls - full of shit is correct. But some are still not seeing it... I do understand the desire to believe anything negative about Woody, because he has been such an awful owner and we haven't won in 14 years, but two things can be true at the same time: Woody is an absolute dumbass and the Athletic/Russini reporting on the Jets has been full of shit.
I don't think it's their job to find leaks and chase down leads, they are beat writers - by definition they cover the daily activity of the team. And while they are around the team enough to pick up leads, I would imagine that Cimini would be expected to pass that lead along to a feature writer (or Schefter) for their site who could get the full story and not just what a beat writer has time to do. Russini is not a beat writer and I've never seen anything that says she is assigned to the Jets.
What, exactly, do you think the job of a "beat reporter" is? Are they supposed to simply rewrite the puff pieces supplied by the organization? Reporters are there to tell us, the general public, everything that is going on inside the fence that we are kept out of - good, bad and ugly. There's plenty of ugly to go around in Jetland.
You can easily tell what their job is by the content they produce. Unless you think that every sports page in New York is fine with letting their employees be insubordinate. Occam's Razor that bad boy, Ralebird. You can do it.
They need to change Cimini’s title then because he doesn’t cover the daily activities of the team. I don’t dislike him, sometimes I enjoy reading his articles about the 1997 NY Jets. But based on your definitions those are features and not beat writing. Conversely the owner’s son in the locker room every game and involved in decision-making seems to me to qualify as daily activities of the team
