Reggie Bush to be on SportsRadio 610 this afternoon

still no recap of what bush had to say on 610?

 

actually there has been a couple, and there is a very thorough one in the other marathon thread.

 

The chronicle should have all the quotes. He didn't say much of anything.

 

I said I was annoyed with the MEDIA's obsession over this, not the fans. And, yes, the media annoys the **** out of me with the way they have approached this. They do the same thing when they harp on ANYTHING.

For YEARS, their music section covered nothing but blues and blues rock, completely ignoring virtually every other style of music in the city. Every review of a national touring act could've easily included the sentence, "Yeah, but they are no Stevie Ray Vaughn." It got old.

This is the same.

I like to hear balanced opinions from my media outlets. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part. Mabye I should learn that media today is more about hype and hyperbole than fact and delivery of information. And, yes, I realize these are commentators and columnists, but does anyone remember a time when someone like Rich Lord literally actively campaigned for a team to make a decision based on his opinion? Or Mclain? Or Justice? Seriously, if I missed something like this before, let me know. This seems like outrageous behavior from the media in general, regardless of their position as a columnist or a writer.

Am I uncomfortable with how things are covered in the media? Damn right I am. And it has NOTHING to do with Reggie or Vince as players or people. It has everything to do with appreciating a diversity of coverage from my local media outlets.

I guess that is not only wishful thinking, but an opinion not shared by the majority.

So, I promise never to say anything negative about Vince or even someone who says something postive about him or even just about hearsay I hear about him. From now on, Vince is God, and I'm a ****ing stupid ****head.

Feel better?

 

The Roger Clemens media recruitment drive ring a bell?

Pore over enough microfilm and you'll find a slew of draft Akeem over Jordan columns from 1984, hire jack pardee, etc etc etc.

...no?

Edit: Generally I would assume that the proliferation of opinion pieces is due to the fact that hard news is virtually automated at this point - however columnists now have to fill out their daily columns, AND their blogs, AND do radio interviews, AND webcasts/podcasts -- etc. So how else are they going to generate content? Just report the same news you can get 24/7 anywhere in the world with internet access (which is everywhere)?

 

Tell us how you really feel!

The media is no better with regards to politics, btw.

 

The Clemens thing was also annoying. The Akeem and Pardee stuff was really minimal though. There wasn't NEARLY the outcry.

I think you are right about the reasons behind it. It's media over-saturation at this point. Why columnists should be asked to keep up blogs is beyond me.

 

I'm with you, Jeff.

I'm in the middle of this long, drawn-out, petty argument. I never watch college football, but watched the Rose Bowl because I wanted to see Reggie Bush (who would more than likely become a Texan) play. I wanted to see why all these NFL scouts said he was possibly the greatest prospect to maybe ever come out. Hell, even John McClain (who's opinion I REALLY respect on all NFL matters because he knows his sh** and knows people that know their sh**) said for weeks at how great the scouts he talked to thought of Bush. I wasn't dissapointed at all by his performance and was floored by what he and Young did in that game.

Anyway, only seeing one game of either's (Vince/Bush) career, I have been pining for some good, UN-BIASED talk about both so I could maybe make an informed decision on who I would rather see in Houston next season. But, all I have got from the local media is Young, Young, Young, Young, Young, etc. It's one thing to publicly mention who you would like to see them draft or even who you think would be the better pick or better pro. But, the "Vince is god" and no doubt win multiple Super Bowls (when he hasn't even played a down of NFL ball) talk is REALLY annoying, a little unprofessional, and uninformaive to say the least.

As for the national media, there is no question without hesitation on who will be and probably should be #1 - Reggie Bush. Every time a person in the know about the draft is on TV or radio, I tune and pay attention to get the latest info and feeling from around the league about the new rookie crop. It's ALWAYS been Reggie. It was easily Reggie before the Rose Bowl and it's still easily Reggie afterwards. And, the feeling about how great a prospect he is has never waivered. And, I'm not talking about armchair GM on message boards or sports talk radio. I'm talking about info from credible sources.

I'm still in the middle. As a Texan fan first and for most, I am ECSTATIC that such a horrible year couldn't have come at a better time. With such great players at the top of the board, they really can not go wrong. Whether it be Bush, Young, Leinart, Williams, Ferguson or Hawk; my favorite team will be getting a stud talent. It looks like it will be Bush and I'm excited to see such a playmaker weaing the blue and red.

The local media sucks, fans need to relax and look at this situation (no matter who the choose) as a "glass over-flowing" outlook.

 

Over the course of the last 90 days there's plenty of people nationally who have said otherwise. There's also non-Texas people who have said that Cutler is the best QB, or Leinart is the best QB, or that Young is a lousy prospect and will be a mega failure. For whatever reason (the position he plays, his cinematic Rose Bowl performance) he has been a lightining rod for opinions both positive and negative. Hell there have been national people who said that LenDale White would run for more yards than Bush (those people are now an endangered species) So is the craziness of the draft hype cycle in this day and age.

A lot of the national perception IS and has been that Bush probably will be the number 1 pick - but that's based more off of a perception of what the Texans seem to be doing (extending carr's contract, etc) and reports of where they're leaning. Honestly though outside of Texas (and even inside of Texas in some parts I imagine) nobody really gives much of a damn about the Texans in particular or who they draft as they're a pretty low visibility franchise.

I don't know if anybody nationally has really cared enough to come to the consensus "bush is teh best in the draft" opinion - I guess you can say that's what it is by default and then it sort of feeds off itself. I can also tell you that that might not be the case if the Texans returning starter was Tony Banks and the perception was that they were going to pick Vince.

 

See, now why couldn't the thread just end there?

 

Bingo. It amazes me that people can't grasp this concept.

Believe it or not, the media doesn't like to be negative. It means you lose contacts within that organization or with the player(s). It means you expose yourself to much humiliation by those fans if you're wrong. It means you put yourself on the line. Likewise, as I said earlier in this thread, fans don't like to be negative regarding their teams. Not when the stakes are this high. Most fans convince themselves that taking an elite talent such as Bush is the right thing to do and downgrade all other options to convince themselves of that.

The Texans have shown they're committed to David Carr and that they're going to take Bush, and that's fine. But that's a huge factor in why the media's ranking the players as they are. If you guys remember, at the end of the 2001 season, most scouts ranked Carr in the 8-10 range in terms of prospects. But when the Texans took him, most said it was a good selection and didn't have any criticism whatsoever.

 

So I wasn't going crazy!

I was on my way to LA from Houston this past Wed around 8:30 and when we got to the part to go through the metal detectors i just noticed a guy surrounded by about 5 guy with suits, business looking, and that's when i said to myself...damn this guy looks like Reggie Bush. As i got closer to him i noticed that it was him.

Then i wondered why he was in town at this point, then figured there must have been some work out with the Texans or something. I just got a chance to get on th eboard and see that he was really here.

Thought i would share my first encounter with our potential number 1 pick.

 

Um, Bush was ranked at the top of the draft for months prior to knowing which team would have the first pick overall and what their RB or QB situations were. Remember, it was called the "Bush Bowl".

 

of course that was long before VY gave any indication he wasn't returning to UT the next season.

 

Very true. I'm just saying that NFL scouts and football minds had him ranked extremely high long before knowing that the top drafting team had their QB locked up.

I'm not going to argue. I've stated my opinion above on how excited I will be if either becomes a Texan (though I probably favor Reggie by a thin hair), and I don't to be labeled being on one side or the other.

 

honestly, i'm not arguing either. but the bush bowl was labelled the bush bowl before all the votes were in! having said that...it proved to be true. we're taking reggie bush.

 

wait. so you're saying that Bush is the number one rated prostpect because the Texans don't need a quarterback? I really don't think it works that way. I seriously doubt you do too.

So if the Texans did need a quarterback, would Leinart be the #1 prospect on all the draft boards or maybe Vince Young? Is that your argument? I'm not buying this one. If the Texans came straight out and said, "we aren't taking Bush" are you saying that all the experts would then drop him as being the best prospect in the draft?

 

i really dont feel like searching a 'marathon thread' for a recap so if someone who knows exactly where its at, repost it in another appropriate thread.

 

wow...so much for having a thread just about Reggie Bush that didn't have any ProVince/AntiReggie posts.

pgabriel, i respect you as a cc.net poster but man...using SKIP BAYLESS as a credible source?? COME ON