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David Newton getting too close to our players?


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5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Get press the fug out of the locker rooms. You're going to have your press conference, ask your questions there. You don't need to be up in the players' business when they're changing and either celebrating or decompressing. I mean, damn...

And it's a trap to get something out of them in the heat of the moment. Players either have to rattle off some generic non-statement, say something that could get them in trouble, or say nothing and get in trouble.

The NBA sideline interviews are the worst. The guys haven't even caught their breath yet and getting asked to assess the game they just played

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15 minutes ago, MechaZain said:

And it's a trap to get something out of them in the heat of the moment. Players either have to rattle off some generic non-statement, say something that could get them in trouble, or say nothing and get in trouble.

The NBA sideline interviews are the worst. The guys haven't even caught their breath yet and getting asked to assess the game they just played

That's not true. The media aren't allowed until after a brief cooldown period after the game. Press conferences don't provide the access a post-game interview provides, because in most cases, only the head coach and the starting QB (unless he played poorly) go to the podium.

If you were doing a feature on a guy for your hometown paper, and he's not Dave Canales or Bryce Young, how do you get his comments after the game? You think you can tweet at him and he'll respond?

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People love to hate the media, because they report facts people don't want to know, let alone read about. 

Not everyone who covers professional sports is a callous buffoon like David Newton, and not everyone who wants locker-room access post-game wants to be in there because they're gay or they're a woman trying to get laid. 

Many of these people need this access to gather comments, again, from non-head coach and non-QB members of the team, so they can properly do their jobs. 

In football terms, it's as uneducated an opinion as "why do players need practice? Just more time around a bunch of guys. If that's all they want, go to a gay bar or something. They don't even play games at practice. Just show up on Sunday and do better than the other team. It's not hard."

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4 minutes ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

I've never understood media being in locker rooms. Makes so sense

The whole roster doesn’t do press conferences. Say you’re writing a story and you need a quote from an up-and-coming defensive player who’s by no means a household name. How else do you get access? Hope for an autograph session? 

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1 minute ago, Joe Bear said:

The whole roster doesn’t do press conferences. Say you’re writing a story and you need a quote from an up-and-coming defensive player who’s by no means a household name. How else do you get access? Hope for an autograph session? 

Because it's not that important?

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Just now, Jon Snow said:

Because it's not that important?

But — it is important when it’s your job. No outlet is running a feature story on a player without a quote from said player. Can’t ask Bryce about every guy on the team. 

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