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Mike Florio Invited the Wrath of the New York Jets Media
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Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk wrote this Thursday:
The rough-and-tumble (supposedly) New York media blew its chance to ask Aaron Rodgers some tough but fair questions about the Robert Saleh firing. https://t.co/hlhq3xSe5Y
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) October 10, 2024
He gave the Jets press corps a D- because, in his mind, they didn’t push hard enough to get answers from Rodgers on Saleh’s firing.
He criticized a reporter for asking a series of three questions, which allowed Rodgers to avoid 2 of the 3, which is fair criticism. You shouldn’t give someone an out by putting too much in front of them. But if you know anything about Florio, he’s had this thing against Rodgers for years now and he’s never satisfied with anything anyway, evidenced by his Woodward and Bernsteinian pursuit of the Jonathan Gannon tampering truth. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?! Florio, you’ll recall, floated the idea that NFL bettors might have a case for a class action lawsuit against the league because the Cardinals’ tampering influenced the Super Bowl results, which, if you were actually watching the game, you know Andy Reid just put on a second-half masterclass and the Eagles’ pass rush couldn’t get home on the crap field despite being amazing through the previous 19 games. Super Bowl 57 was Super Bowl 52 without the strip sack.
Nonetheless, Jets media and others pushed back:
The rough-and-tumble Mike Florio sitting behind a laptop waiting for real reporters to do their work so he can copy and paste their stories and columns and pass them off as his original thoughts. #askyourownquestions https://t.co/noxvlQjdAX
— Jim McBride (@globejimmcbride) October 10, 2024
Yes, the purveyor of journalism is an aggregator who spends most of his time re-posting everyone else’s work.
— Zack Rosenblatt (@ZackBlatt) October 10, 2024
The same dude who hides out in the basement and keeps Aaron Rodgers’ name in his mouth wants us to grill the man? He can come do it, but he won’t.
— Antwan V. Staley (@antwanstaley) October 10, 2024
If you’d like to get off your high horse & come attend something in person we’d love to have you.
Would love to hear your criticisms face-to-face. https://t.co/V622R1VJLG
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) October 10, 2024
The thing about Florio is that he’s got a reputation for being something of a narc/complainer hybrid. This is the same guy who kept pushing the “Howie Roseman tampered with Saquon Barkley” thing and pressed Roseman on the Gannon stuff, which resulted in Roseman just avoiding the questions, so we got nothing out of the effort. Florio has been whining about Lane Johnson’s get-off for years and when you build that reputation, you don’t get much sympathy from the rest of the media, and NFL fans at large. The Jets beats could have put on the best press conference performance of all time this week and he still would have found something to complain about, because that’s what he does.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com