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When showing pre-season highlights of our game, do they show anything we did? Nope, just what Clowney did. Yes he's the #1 pick and all but this wasn't a 16-13 game, it was 32-0. Pre-season or not that's impressive but ESPN didn't even mention the score.
 

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Neither did NFL Network. Big deal, better the cards get no hype. BTW, they won't spoil your sleeper pick of John Brown in your fantasy draft this way.
 

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When showing pre-season highlights of our game, do they show anything we did? Nope, just what Clowney did. Yes he's the #1 pick and all but this wasn't a 16-13 game, it was 32-0. Pre-season or not that's impressive but ESPN didn't even mention the score.

I don't know why you're getting still pissed about it...it's been going on since the Cards left Stl. Besides it preseason & the networks are gonna focus on the big name rooks anyway.
 

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Golic on Mike & Mike giving John Brown and the Cardinals some love this morning :)
 

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Gambo said this past Friday someone would break out that wasn't expected to. and be the big subject come Monday. Logan Thomas or john brown I'm thinking.
 

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The media's love affair with the now destitute Cowboys and ignorance of the Cardinals is not old, it is ancient man lol
 

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We all know we're going to be shafted compared to some teams and some high draft picks, or ones with the media love affair ( Manziel, Sam, Clownedy)

But it's just the extremes. It's like watching a report about a game where someone hit 7 homeruns in a game but we don't know it because Johnny Football got the coverage of the game because he threw out the first pitch and it deserves the coverage instead.

Any game, and I mean ANY game that ends up 32-0, shouldn't just have a Clowney and Watt play shown and that's it. You have to be a dumb idiot to just cover Clowney and Watt.

It's like watching a no hitter and only talking about the hot dog run.

Like seeing a 70 point performance in basketball, but all they show us is the injured superstar on the other team sitting on the bench in street clothes.

It's rank incompetence. Do they need to show five minutes of golf coverage instead?

How do you not even mention something from the winning side in a 32-0 game? Even worse did you see the way they talked about Manziel?

OMG the way they were pimping him, and he sucked, was unreal. By the end of hearing them gush over Manziel you would of though Cleveland won 32-0 themselves. Instead right at the end, they mention his drives only netted three point, and Detroit won the game.

They didn't just screw us, they literally were complete morons about covering the NFL that day.

They have scripted coverage, and they can't actually watch the games and report on them anymore, it's cover the talking points and well, that it. Journalism at it's finest, at least here in America. ESPN is the best journalism we have in mainstream media, and they suck.

Media tells you the narrative they think is important, and it's up to you to figure out what really happened.

Logan Thomas's performance was by far the best of any rookie, but they won't talk about him, it's more Johnny Moron and Clowney. If what Manziel did was so good for a rookie, and ESPN is trying hard to get us to believe that, what does Thomas's performance mean? Compare and contrast, whoops, ESPN doesn't want anyone judging reality. Don't show Thomas, it makes the Manziel propaganda look really bad and fake.

I'm just surprised they didn't bookend it with a story on Michael Sam. Followed by more Tiger Woods injury update and a picture of Lebron.
 
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We all know we're going to be shafted compared to some teams and some high draft picks, or ones with the media love affair ( Manziel, Sam, Clownedy)

But it's just the extremes. It's like watching a report about a game where someone hit 7 homeruns in a game but we don't know it because Johnny Football got the coverage of the game because he threw out the first pitch and it deserves the coverage instead.

Any game, and I mean ANY game that ends up 32-0, shouldn't just have a Clowney and Watt play shown and that's it. You have to be a dumb idiot to just cover Clowney and Watt.

It's like watching a no hitter and only talking about the hot dog run.

Like seeing a 70 point performance in basketball, but all they show us is the injured superstar on the other team sitting on the bench in street clothes.

It's rank incompetence. Do they need to show five minutes of golf coverage instead?

How do you not even mention something from the winning side in a 32-0 game? Even worse did you see the way they talked about Manziel?

OMG the way they were pimping him, and he sucked, was unreal. By the end of hearing them gush over Manziel you would of though Cleveland won 32-0 themselves. Instead right at the end, they mention his drives only netted three point, and Detroit won the game.

They didn't just screw us, they literally were complete morons about covering the NFL that day.

They have scripted coverage, and they can't actually watch the games and report on them anymore, it's cover the talking points and well, that it. Journalism at it's finest, at least here in America. ESPN is the best journalism we have in mainstream media, and they suck.

Media tells you the narrative they think is important, and it's up to you to figure out what really happened.

Logan Thomas's performance was by far the best of any rookie, but they won't talk about him, it's more Johnny Moron and Clowney. If what Manziel did was so good for a rookie, and ESPN is trying hard to get us to believe that, what does Thomas's performance mean? Compare and contrast, whoops, ESPN doesn't want anyone judging reality. Don't show Thomas, it makes the Manziel propaganda look really bad and fake.

I'm just surprised they didn't bookend it with a story on Michael Sam. Followed by more Tiger Woods injury update and a picture of Lebron.

Brilliant!
 

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What a night for the Cardinals. The first-team offense had two drives. Carson Palmer (five of five, TD pass) led one, Drew Stanton (four of four, TD pass) the other. Arizona skunked Houston 32-0. That’s a garish-enough score, but just think of the way the Cards’ offense went through a team with pretty good defensive talent. Said in some form for the 949th time summer (and it’s only Aug. 11), “The NFC West could be all-time great.”

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"Carson Palmer and the Cardinals offense looked in midseason form against the Texans. (Matt York/AP)"

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/11/johnny-manziel-preseason-browns-michael-sam-rams/2/
 

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The problem with the Cards when it comes to media coverage is that they have one of the smallest followings in the league. The national media is going to focus on those stories that people want to see and the Cards don't provide that right now. Winning will fix that eventually but it's not going to happen overnight.
 

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The problem with the Cards when it comes to media coverage is that they have one of the smallest followings in the league. The national media is going to focus on those stories that people want to see and the Cards don't provide that right now. Winning will fix that eventually but it's not going to happen overnight.

This...ESPECIALLY in the preseason where wins/losses/scores don't matter.
 
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The problem with the Cards when it comes to media coverage is that they have one of the smallest followings in the league. The national media is going to focus on those stories that people want to see and the Cards don't provide that right now. Winning will fix that eventually but it's not going to happen overnight.

Find me 6 people out of the greater Houston area who gives a flying flip about the Texans. I guarantee you we have more fans than they do.
 

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I'm wondering if CardsFan88 has an opinion on this. Not quite sure.
































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Excellent post.
 

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Find me 6 people out of the greater Houston area who gives a flying flip about the Texans. I guarantee you we have more fans than they do.

you're talking about the Number 1 pick in the NFL draft who's been compared to legends. I guarantee you more football fans are interested in seeing what he did the first time he stepped on the field then how the Cardinals did in a meaningless game that doesn't count in the standings.
 
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