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My apologies if this has already been posted...I didn't see it...I sometimes appreciated Bob and his often negative view ...he seemed to try to level the Packer assessment which was often overly positive......but I was truly surprised by this statement in his parting interview---taking Favre over Rodgers---he seems to have a little memory loss for the second part of Brett's career in big games....bizarre too, thinking of our current defense and a running game featuring a wide receiver some how making it to the NFC championship..

McGinn: “Would I take Favre or Rodgers? Right now, Favre. Because he was there every single game and he inherited a team that was the armpit of the NFL. It’s one of the greatest reclamation projects in NFL history. Favre just did it all from nothingness.”

 

from: http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/0...inel-nfl-beat-writer 

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I have always appreciated his player ratings and extensive game reviews. I believe this quote characterizes his approach. 

"Modesty. I think that’s crucial. I think too many young reporters think they are the show, think they are the game. It drives me nuts. We have to know who we are. We are journalists. We’re reporters. Every scout and assistant coach, to me, knows 100 times more football than I do. The scouts in Green Bay can go down the hall and there is [defensive coordinator] Dom Capers sitting in his office with his tape on. They can sit there for 15 minutes. Dom, let’s talk about this coverage. I would love to have had a chance like that. I never did. So when you interview these people, don’t act like you know a lot. Be modest. Temper it down. Listen, listen, to what they’re telling you."

Bob says this while blathering on for years about the roster, the need to get bigger, the need to get smaller, older, younger, Ted's management of the salary cap, Ted being cheap, question McCarthys play calling and snap counts. Yet young reporters drive him crazy for acting like they know better than the coaches and scouts they cover while he does exactly that. 

Like the majority of sports journalists. Bob spends an awful lot of time talking out both sides of his own ass. 

Bob was at his best grading players on Tuesdays and his draft work. His over emotional editorial ramblings was when everything went to ****. 

I have a subscription to the Journal-Sentinel but it has gone straight down the toilet since the Gannett Co. bought it.  Original reason for subscribing was about 75% Wisconsin/world news based and 25% sports news based.  Now the news reporting is the typical USA Today poop and the Packer coverage has declined considerably since McGinn's exit.  Everything down to the generic website design pretty much sucks.  Considering that I've been thinking about ditching my Journal-Sentinel subscription, I'll probably go ahead with that and end up throwing some business in Bob's direction.  As long as Bob doesn't fall off his rocker during the next couple of weeks and does something crazy like adding Greg Bedard to the roster, I'm probably in.

I wonder if they would credential one of us? I once tried to get a photographer cred for a poster here but that didn't work.

If they gave Nagler a cred, I would think someone here might have a chance. This website has been in existence for 17 years or more.

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