After ESPN's day-long coverage of Matt Walsh's Spygate revelations last month, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady criticized the Worldwide Leader for spending an inordinate amount of time on the issue -- an opinion that Brady arrived at without having watched ESPN's coverage.But now someone who did watch that coverage is weighing in with a similar opinion to Brady's. Le Anne Schreiber, ESPN's ombudsman, writes today that the network went overboard in covering the Spygate story, and she especially singles out NFL analysts Cris Carter and Mark Schlereth:
Schlereth imagined how such tapes might affect the outcome if film was shot, edited and utilized "during the course of a game" ...Schreiber is right that Carter and Schlereth wrongly suggested that Walsh's tapes were used during games. In reality, the tapes were used between games. But for the most part, what I've found from fans is that those who like the Patriots think ESPN and the rest of the media have been too hard on them, while those who dislike the Patriots think ESPN and the rest of the media have been too easy on them.
"To think that a Super Bowl might be slanted in a team's favor!" Carter fumed.
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6-12-2008 @ 8:40PM
BlueStarDude said...
I didn't watch a lot of the coverage because I always thought it was mostly a non-story (and so I usually skip blog posts related to this topic, but not this one). but Mark Schlereth is one of the better former-player analysts on ESPN. Don't always agree with him but I'm always interested to hear what he has to say. If ESPN is looking to do some serious self-criticism, Schlereth isn't one of the problems.
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6-14-2008 @ 9:07AM
lk said...
Do you really have to watch the coverage to know that there has been too much coverage of spygate, (which really should be called videogate, since spying is allowed). I eman really, they make a story out of everything. Even this story...hello.
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6-14-2008 @ 9:10AM
lk said...
I would also like to say that this woman's story which sort of calls out the media's coverage of spygate, is no where to be found on espn's main page. Can't imagine how much digging you have to do to read it. Once again, anything that might put a positive light on the Patriots is a tiny blip in the news. the real story of spygate is not what the Pats did, but rather how the media turned it into the worst crime of the century.
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6-14-2008 @ 10:19AM
murph207 said...
im sick to death of STINk and his opinions on this.. it was situational scouting THATS ALL it was! i wonder if he would feel the same way if we all called him a cheat for spending all thise years Holding! or for dopeing up his knees to play on sunday?
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