This may be old news to many of you, but I haven't seen a thread. Yesterday I watched a recording of NFL Gameday and Deion Sanders was pretty dismissive about the Jets. I generally try to take the media with a pinch of salt, but something he said really annoyed me. He said that he didn't think the Jets were really a threat because they were 4-12 last season and Brett Favre was the only difference. This was so uninformed, inaccurate and lazy that it amazed me that the NFL Network would allow one of its analysts to be so ill-prepared. This is the sort of thing you expect some casual fan off the street to say, not a highly paid "expert". Kris Jenkins is by far the biggest change on the Jets this year and a big contribution is being made by Calvin Pace. And even if the o-line isn't yet as dominant as we'd hoped, there are two new big-money players there as well. Sanders is welcome to his opinion, but when he smugly sits there, taking his fat pay check for pontificating about the NFL, he should first get a clue.
At least his "Let?s go Prime Time" ist entertaining. I don?t have a clue what Woodson gets paid for, thou.
Honestly, the new set of analysts pulled from the hot shot ranks of loudmouth wide receivers and DBs is virtually useless. I'm looking at you Deion and Meshawn.
Meh. All he cares about is the cowboys and flashy trash talking skill players. His opinion means very little.
i try not to take what the media says to seriously either way. most of the time they just hate on the jets because its easy. then sometimes you get a few on the bandwagon and its just annoying to listen to them talk about everything that the jets do well after listening to them bash the team a few weeks earlier.
I Wonder what his take on Miami or Atlanta is? Even mentioning last year at this point in the season means nada.
I hate Sanders. And can barely tolerate Woodson. All Dion brings to a conversation is his moniker and his self indulgent smile. Bottom line is that if you watch enough of the analysis shows you will find just as many people picking the Jets to win the East as you do having them to finish last. It's all talk that is fodder for our own conversations.
As a journalist it offends me that someone can get paid what I assume is a large amount of money and not have the professionalism to research their subject. That's what bothered me - not so much his negative attitude to the Jets, but the fact that it was sloppy work and he got paid thousands of dollars for the show (again, I assume).
I like Deion, but I had the pleasure of witnessing his worst game as a pro in person. His rookie year, 1989, Atlanta at the Jets. It was a bad year for us but that day Ken O'Brien had it going and Al Toon just worked Deion over all day. He was too big and strong for him and believe it or not just about as fast with a longer stride. Boy that was fun to watch, maybe it left Deion a bit scarred.
