Originally posted by azcardsfan1616
You dont get it you dont have the right to bitch because the writters do know about the cards just no one cares. They have their job as a sports writter for a reason, if you think they are doing such a bad job why do you read press releases and believe them true. You are steamed because you think the cards get no respect and you are right but the cards do not earn respect from writters around the country. If you were not a card fan would you want to hear a story about arizona, do you think anyone else cares? It is all about the people and what the people want to do is read stories abut players they have heard of and teams that are good. You have your opinion and that is fine but dont be steamed at the writters be mad at the cardinals for making this situation, if they won once in a while you might get a story. Start looking at things with some realism instead of a fan. I am a die hard fan but i look at things with realism. Life is not fair so you just have to suck it up, grab some wood build a bridge and get over it.
Your right, they have a job to do, and that is why we as Cards fans have every right to be steamed when they dont do ALL of thier job. Part of that job is to make sure they have thier facts straight. Most of them dont bother because of that lack of respect your talking about they feel they can just state blatent opinion and make things up to sound good because noone will really care if it is wrong.
That is what I am steamed about. If someone wants to write an article stating in thier OPINION of something on the Cards more power too them, I may very well disagree with thier OPINION, but I wouldnt get steamed. I do however have a problem with writers who decide to write articles as "fact" when they havent checked thier facts.
Here is the portion about the Cards in the sporting news article dated 3/28/03:
1. Cardinals. OK, they decided to start over at two key positions by letting QB Jake Plummer, WRs David Boston and MarTay Jenkins go, but where's the youth movement? Jeff Blake and Emmitt Smith would be nice additions for a veteran club, but at 32 and 33 respectively, they don't fit the long-term mix.
Following former Ravens cornerback Duane Starks' lead, Super Bowl MVP safety Dexter Jackson went for desert bucks with the ring already in hand. Jackson is only 25, and should be a solid contributor, but considering the Cards had holes in many places, spreading their spending would have made more sense.
First - Where's the younth movement??? OK, lets see all of our current WR class are within thier first 3 years in the NFL, is that not youth enough when you talk about letting DB & Martay go??? Is this a plus, maybe not, letting Martay go is no biggie in my mind, wether or not letting Boston go we wont know for sure until 2 things happen, #1 what does boston do over the next year or two, and #2 what do the young guys on the cards due the next year or two. But lets not whine about youth movement because we signed Blake and Smith,m when we also signed Jackson & Hodges both in their 4th year of the NFL.
Second - Speading that spending would have been nice. He makes the whole thing sound like we signed 3 guys, Blake, Smith and Jackson. No mention of the other 4 players we had signed up till then. No comment that we offered the house to Colvin and were attempting to "spread the wealth", No comment that we were still trying to sign Holliday.
And $5 says this guy wrote some article last year somewhere on how the cards were such a young team and probably should add some vetern leadership if they want to make it to the next level.
