Sports Reporters are Insane

I am not a Brady Quinn hater. In fact, I like him. Notre Dame is my second favorite college football team. But Brady Quinn has done nothing in the NFL and is already being proclaimed the future of the NFL by Fox Sports. Their article is entitled, "Is Future Now?" I had to stop reading the article because it frustrated me so much. The writer suggests that the Cleveland Browns may have a quarterback controversy now that Brady Quinn played so well in last night's pre-season game against the Detroit Lions. I have three responses to this article: 1) it was the Detroit Lions; 2) it was the third and fourth string players playing prevent defense for the Lions; and 3) it was the Detroit Lions.

I'm not a Lions hater either. I love the Lions, but their reputation is well deserved. Many of the guys on the field playing defense for the Lions against Quinn will never see action in a regular season game. What he did last night was not that impressive.

My biggest concern, as a Brady Quinn fan, is that if they put him in as a starter in the third exhibition game, which is generally the game teams test their starters for at least a full half of football, they are going to retard the development of a potentially very good quarterback. The Lions did this with Joey Harrington. I've seen it countless other times. He should not be starting; he should not be donned, "The Future" of anything yet.

Many sports reporters these days, are insane. How many times do you see hype for unproven guys before they do a thing on the field? I'm surprised it is Fox reporters. Their regular news reporters seem to be among the best at reporting news. The Brady Quinn story is not a headline story. It is a back page story at best. The bigger story in the Lions - Browns game, was that the Detroit Lions actually won a football game. Granted, it is a pre-season game, but it is a much bigger story than Brady Quinn completing several short passes against the fourth-string defense of a terrible team playing prevent defense in the last quarter of a pre-season game. This would be like a gym teacher getting front page coverage for beating his 3rd graders in a game of dodgeball. It's not news. Drop the hype!