At this point, ESPN offers info best left at the bottom of the sea.
ESPN: the leader in sports entertainment… bring in the clowns.
Phinsnews recently wrote about how the sportsbooks gave Miami little respect with a prediction of 7.5 regular-season wins total and no playoffs in 2017.
Now we can add another doubter to the list: ESPN.
ESPN has not been kind to the Dolphins since the days of Dan Marino…most of which is earned because Miami has not been very well most of the last two decades.
However, ESPN seems to have some kind of weird fixation on some teams. The Pats love affair I get. But one of their sweethearts is a head-scratcher: The New York Jets.
They were bad last year and should be even worse this year, but for whatever reason ESPN loves to hype up and whisper sweet nothing about their of the Jets.
Maybe a head honcho at ESPN is a closet Jest fan or friend of Jets owner Woody Johnson?
Whatever.
ESPN released their offseason report card and analyst Bill Barnwell gave the Dolphins the worst grade of any AFC East team, with a D+.
ESPN A leader in sports information excrement
Armando Salguero wrote an excellent repudiation to Barnwell’s (and by extension ESPN) ability to assess the Dolphins. You can find it here. It’s a good read that demonstrates why ESPN is on its way to being called the Titanic.
The other AFCE grades were: Patriots B, the Bills B, and Jets a C+.
Personally, I think most pay per head review sites think the Patriots should get a good grade because they did an excellent job of making trades and getting players that should make them even better–which is downright scary, considering they went 14-2 last year and won the Super Bowl.
Then I would say that Miami should at least deserve a B for going out and getting guys at positions that were desperately thin at and for resigning our productive players.
Isn’t that what you are supposed to do in the off-season, fill positions of need and try to resign you better players?
The biggest complaint by Barnwell was that Miami overspent to keep their own players.
I totally disagree, because each player they paid could have received a more lucrative deal somewhere else, but instead they were willing to take a home town discount to stay in Miami–albeit that home town discount included a lot of guaranteed money.
Also, what’s the problem with paying good and productive players such as Stills and Branch? It shows the rest of the players on the team that the organization values hard work and production, and if a player produces, then he’ll get rewarded.
ESPN: ‘Sports fans are dummies… treat them as such, they won’t know the difference.’
Isn’t building in the right way to build a team? Also, how can you even say with certainty that we overpaid for someone until after you see them play next year? Didn’t he say the same thing about Cameron Wake last year? Or that the trade back with the Eagles was a loser?
In the end, after reading Salguero’s article it’s clear at ESPN you don’t need stinkin’ facts or a proven track record, the reality is what ESPN tells you. Slurp it up, dummy. Like it and believe it.
ESPN is sinking fast because its model of mixing politics with a bubble-gum approach to sports, along with a history of flop information has them in a nosedive. So, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling deep down that they gave the Dolphins a D+. Given ESPN’s track record and trajectory, the offseason grade will end up an A+. Go Fins!!!
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