rideaducati":24yjw0oh said:
Matt Maiocco is the most boring writer out there covering the niners. He's the same way on the radio. He has a lot of info, but refuses to give his opinion on anything and NEVER criticizes. I think he's more "old school" in his reporting in that he just reports whereas the "new school" reporters infuse their stuff with opinions.
I don't think it's a difference between "new school" and "old school", it's a difference between beat reporters and columnists.
I prefer beat reporters because they actually, like, report stuff, have access, break news, etc. A guy like Maiocco isn't throwing his opinions around because it's not part of his job description.
If I want to read opinions, there's no shortage of them here, at the webzone, etc., etc.
Guys like the Cohns and Kawakami are basically paid to be below average message board posters.
It's just not my cup of tea.
rideaducati":24yjw0oh said:
I have read many niner fans posts on niner sites that are saying the same things Cohn and Kawakami mention. Cohn and Kawakami just say a bunch of things that you don't want to hear. Sometimes, the truth hurts. I challenge you to go back and find where Cohn and Kawakami were wrong with their reporting. They haven't been. Their opinions have been, but their reporting has been spot on, and lately, they have gotten a lot more right than you have.
I think this impression might come from not having read them regularly over the years.
Grant C. and Kawakami say PLENTY of things 9ers fans would want to believe, the problem is that it's all BS too.
The summer before Harbaugh got fired Kawakami said that Baalke and Harbaugh had repaired their relationship and he predicted the 9ers to win the Super Bowl last year. It was just nonsense.
Like a bad messageboard poster Grant Cohn latches onto to a marginal player every offseason and obsessively hypes him up as the second coming. It too is nonsense. Grant's also been insisting that the 9ers need to replace Anthony Davis for three years now because Davis made fun of him on twitter in 2012. It's just ridiculous. Grant also spent a whole season talking about Kaepernick never throws passes in pre-game warm-ups. It was just an insane claim. Totally insane, and he hammered on it for a year while everyone who had ever been to a game before was totally perplexed about what he was talking about.
As for Lowell Cohn, he's his own brand. I mean, here he is from during the 9ers negotiations for Kap's deal (which ended up being VERY team friendly).
Remember this column came from three pieces of actual news: 1) Kaepernick was looking for around 18 APY, 2) Kaepernick said he wouldn't hold out if a deal didn't get done that offseason, and 3) Kaepernick said he wanted to structure the deal in a team friendly way so that the 9ers could retain other key players. 1 & 3 ended up happening and the deal was struck before #2 could have. Here's what Lowell Cohn turned that into:
Take what the Boston Globe is reporting about Kaepernick. He wants a contract extension from the 49ers. He wants a big-money contract extension. He wants Jay Cutler money. He wants Tony Romo money. He wants more than those guys get.
FYI, Cutler signed for $18.1 a year, $38 million guaranteed. Romo signed for $18 million a year, $40 million guaranteed.
If Kaepernick doesn’t get that kind of dough, he says he’ll go back to kindergarten and knock over his blocks and hold his breath until he turns blue. Check that. I got carried away.
He actually said, according to the Globe, he’ll play out the final year of his contract, base salary just south of one mil, and negotiate after next season instead of settling for what he considers a contract unworthy of his eminence.
Someone should slap a Boston cream pie in Kaepernick’s smug face.
Why?
Start with this. During Super Bowl Week, he made the rounds of radio talk shows in New York. It talks! He went on with Murph and Mac and, in a sensitive, reasonable voice, said he’s not looking to break the bank in his next contract. What a guy. He’d accept a reasonable contract, not a whopper, so the 49ers can have enough money to sign key players like Donte Whitner and keep the team together. Kaepernick wanted everyone to see him as the ultimate team player.
Now this. It’s like he’s saying, “To hell with the team. I want mine.”
There are words to describe his position starting with “hypocrite” and ending with “phony.” You can fill in words in between.
This is REALLY who you prefer to beat reporters? :lol:
He'd be a worse poster than 98% of the people here.
