# Pro Football Talk Hits a New Low **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 28, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809 "2010-01-28T21:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809/1 "2010-01-28T21:18:07Z")
Mike Florio turned his football blogging hobby into a paid gig with MSNBC. He’s a big Favre fan and was noticably bummed about this year’s NFC championship game. He’s so bummed that he’s posted a story today [quoting Saints’ Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams out of context](http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/28/gregg-williams-suggests-the-saints-want-to-injure-manning/). Williams does say that part of the Saints’ game plan will be to hurry Peyton Manning and collapse the pocket and put a hit or two on him. He does not, as Florio says he says, indicate that he wants his D to injure Manning. Awful blog; awful reporting. Wonder how it’s stayed up most of the day. What do you football fans think? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809/2 "2010-01-28T21:27:59Z")
Meh…Florio is a good source for information, and a laughable source for opinions. This story contains two of his standards --" it sounds like…" and “In other words”. Florio (and Rosenthal, to a lesser extent) take stories and add spin. If you look through the spin, you either find good stories or non-stories. Wanna guess which one this is? ---
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809/3 "2010-01-28T21:37:37Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > If you look through the spin, you either find good stories or non-stories. Wanna guess which one this is? I’ll take non-stories for $1,000, Alex. Still, it’s frustrating since Gregg Williams is such a good defensive mind and a really nice guy to boot. His [foundation](http://www.greggwilliamsfoundation.org/)pays for a lot of good projects in the town where he grew up. He’s improved the Saints’ defense. He took a big chance on [Anthony Hargrove](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/lee_jenkins/01/28/anthony.hargrove/index.html). He seldom gives interviews and crap like this makes it less likely that he will in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809/4 "2010-01-28T22:11:39Z")
dude relax… its florio… i enjoy his blog but i understand that mike is NOT a journalist… G williams is a great d co-odinator… only question is will he get another shot at a head job?? i’m inclined to look at buffalo as a train wreck and less on his back… ---
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-football-talk-hits-a-new-low/526809/5 "2010-01-28T22:16:52Z")
> [@Chicagojeff](#): > > dude relax.. its florio.. i enjoy his blog but i understand that mike is NOT a journalist.. Too bad then that NBC put him under their umbrella. If it’s not journalism it ought not to be hosted by a media site, that or they should have disclaimers.