Mike Florio, NBC's Puppet Bitch And #1 Dick In Sports !!
So NBC has been "affiliated" with Profootballtalk.com since 2009 a website which this fucking piece of shit who knows nothing about football created in 2001 by Mike Florio himself. For a while Mike Florio was intelligent enough to only post rumors about the NFL and its players and teams, but after a year or so he turned into the biggest fucking douchebag and the most biased "writer" when it comes to the NFL.
Many times Florio has posted errors about players, teams and the NFL as a whole yet NBC allows this idiot to keep posting and updating his website daily where he consistently insults not only players but the NFL and it's fans all together.
On his website he has a comments section for every article he publishes or other writers and contributes publish there as well, but if you happen to say something negative or disagree with what Florio has to say he censors your comments or deletes them all together.
The errors he has reported over the years are mind boggling, in 2007 he reported that Terry Bradshaw had died in a car accident and then in 2012 he posted an article bashing NFL players for missing a game if their child was born on gameday.... are you fucking serious !!! ? Here is that article...
Players missing games for babies being born raises plenty of questions
Posted by Mike Florio on November 7, 2012, 3:48 PM EST
More than a few NFL players have made known this year their intention to miss a game in lieu of missing the birth of a child.
If push comes to shove, however, should they choose to be present for the pushing and not the shoving?
It’s a thorny issue. My position was and is that the players have made a lifestyle choice that entails being available 16 days per year, no matter what. If they choose not to plan their nine-month family expansion activities to coincide with the eight months per year when their work activities don’t entail playing games that count, why should their teams suffer the consequences?
For more comments that likely will provoke plenty of comments from some of you, here’s a slice of Wednesday’s PFT Live.
Who the fuck does this asshole think he is criticizing and talking shit about NFL players? You don't plan around the fucking NFL to have a Family, you don't need permission to have a Family because you work for the NFL and you sure don't need to apologize to your team for your child coming into this world when they do so.
Today Florio posted this article about Phil Simms:
Posted by Mike Florio on November 21, 2014, 2:22 PM EST
Last night’s game between the Chiefs and Raiders ended up being much better than expected. Then again, the bar was low.
But the surprisingly strong performance from Oakland and the late victory from the previously winless home team and its ability to hold off a Chiefs franchise that had been 7-3 represents an exception for Thursday nights in 2014. Actually, it represents an exception for most prime-time games this season.
Phil Simms of CBS, the outlet that broadcast Thursday Night Football through Week Eight and that now loans Simms and the rest of the production team to NFL Network, doesn’t appreciate the concerns that have been raised about the quality of the weekly short-week games.
“That’s a lot of talk from other people with games on other networks, and I want to say to them, ‘Look in the mirror and see how your games are going,’” Simms told 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City on Thursday. “I see blowout after blowout in some of these night games, and nobody talks about the quality of play there. You know, I’m a little offended by it, and I want to tell them to be quiet and worry about what you do, and we’ll worry about what we do at CBS.”
Simms expressed specific objection to criticism of last week’s Thursday night contest. (Frankly, I don’t think it was a bad game, and I don’t recall hearing any complaints about it.)
“I heard some, you know, experts, you know, commentators, talking this past week about the Buffalo-Miami game,” Simms said. “I thought it was very well played, an exciting game. Tense, hard hitting. Everything you’d want in a game. . . . Buffalo has struggled moving the ball against everybody. What’d you expect their offense to come out there and be great? So I get a little ticked off about those questions. . . . Let’s look at some of the numbers on the other games that are going and compare them and then tell me what you think.”
He’s absolutely right about that. Sunday Night Football has consisted of plenty of lopsided games this year. Ditto for Monday Night Football. The difference is that the Sunday night package on NBC, which essentially took the reins from Monday night when Monday night migrated from broadcast to cable in 2006, entails games of significance, regardless of the outcome. The portion of the Thursday night package that was simulcast on CBS and NFLN featured divisional games only, adding a rivalry dynamic to games that wouldn’t naturally draw as much widespread interest.
Simms misses the mark when assuming that the criticism comes from people who work for other networks. Most if not all of the other networks want to acquire the rights to the Thursday night games when the package is finalized for 2015 and beyond. Most of the concern about Thursday night games comes from folks with no direct or indirect connection to the broadcasting industry.
The concern extends beyond the quality of the contests. Playing with only four days between games has triggered a string of complaints from players and coaches over the years. Simms speaks as if the opposition from those who have to perform with only four days in between is narrow and limited.
“I have not heard a player or coach complain to us — a few players have spoken out, ‘Oh, it’s stupid and this,’” Simms said. “But you do it once a year, and let’s be honest. Most players on a team play 20 to 30 snaps every game. They’re not out there for 60 or 70. There’s a few. Offensive linemen. A few special people on defense, whatever. But all in all, I’ve gotten great feedback from the players. The one reason they like it, they get that mini-break when it’s over. And even the coaches say the same thing to me, almost universally, that this is good. Play the game, get a few days off, and start again.”
In my own experience, it’s more mixed. Plenty of players like it, plenty of players don’t like it. Most coaches don’t like it, but they tolerate it. Coaches prefer as few variables as possible; for them, the best schedule has every game being played at 1:00 p.m. ET on Sunday. All coaches definitely prefer having more than three days between game days to get a team ready to play again.
Simms also defended short-week football from an injury perspective.
“We haven’t had like a rash of injuries on Thursday night,” Simms said. “I can think of very few, really. So, you know, I don’t know the numbers. I’m sure somebody has crunched those numbers, and the fact that I haven’t heard them tells me that they’re not negative towards the Thursday night game. Because if they were . . . other people doing games would bring them out.”
There’s that whole “only people who work for other networks complain about Thursday night” thing again. Regardless, the issue with player health and safety isn’t that there are more injuries on Thursday. It’s that players with injuries from the prior Sunday have less time to recover. Making it harder for them to play well or to play at all. It also exposes them to enhanced risk of injury aggravation.
Bottom line? Thursday Night Football will continue. And the complaints about it will continue, no matter how much it ticks off Phil Simms or whoever is serving as the analyst for the Thursday night games. And the complaints will have no connection to inter-company politics and rivalries about which no one outside the industry really cares.
The fact that this dumb ass continues to post lies and "rumors" about NFL players and NBC allows it and then doesn't allow anyone to voice their opinions on his website's comments area is pathetic. Florio must of been desperate for money when he agreed to be affiliated with NBC, keep in mind that Florio used to be a lawyer which leads me to believe that at some point he was sued for libel for defamation by one or more players or personalities before he agreed to be NBC's puppet bitch.
If he was indeed sued for this, that would explain why he agreed to partner up with NBC. A Broadcast Company like NBC without a doubt has to have a legal team to completely wipe out or defend an idiot like Florio for making false statements about players, people and for posting stories that should be considered and treated as libel and defamatory towards players.
In 2012 Florio felt the need to embarrass and humiliate LSU Cornerback Morris Claiborne for scoring a 4 out of 50 on the wonderlic test which the NFL gives to players before the draft at the scouting combine. Many media outlets and other writers and sport reporters knew about this and decided not to write about it, yet Florio felt the need to do so just to attract attention to his pathetic piece of shit website.
The only reason his website even gets any traffic is because of the "rumors" and total bullshit that he posts on it, at some point the website was hurting which is when I am sure Florio decided to completely turn into the biggest asshole in sports reporting and was probably about to get sued or worse by someone or more than one person.
Some of you guys might say, "holy shit Cheech why the hate towards Florio", well it's simple ... this asshole was a Lawyer, probably a very bad one to begin with, he decides to start up a website about the NFL, he starts to posts rumors which is fine, but then he starts to posts complete bullshit about players, he criticises players for doing what they do in the NFL, from how they play the game to what they do in their personal lives just to make a name for himself and ends up cashing in at the expense of making NFL players look like idiots, uneducated, selfish, classless, thugs, ciriminals and the list goes on and on.
So yes, I hate Florio, not because he might be making tons of money but because he has no fucking clue about the NFL and the players in it. He was lucky enough to start a website at a time when the internet was just booming and more and more households could afford a computer and the internet, but he did it at the expense of many player's reputation and he should get sued by the players who he has defamed over the last 10 years or more.
Claiborne gives birth to a four on the Wonderlic
Posted by Mike Florio on April 3, 2012, 7:18 AM EST
The NFL has kept the Wonderlic results under tighter wraps than usual this year. Or maybe the media has had enough other things to keep itself occupied.
Regardless, the first eye-opening score has leaked from the 2012 edition of the 50-question Wonderlic test. Per multiple league sources, LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne scored a four.
Yes. A four. Out of 50.
Six years ago, quarterback Vince Young initially got a six. Re-scoring of the test bumped it to a seven. A next-day Mulligan moved it to 13.
Finally, Young has someone at whom he can point and laugh.
The joke, however, continues to be on anyone who thinks that all college athletes are also students. Plenty of them aren’t. They’re minor-league football players who have no choice but to wait at least three years until they get a shot at joining the NFL.
How else can anyone explain a person who presumably has found a way to avoid failing out of college getting such a low score on a basic intelligence test?
And that gives rise to a more important question. What did LSU actually do to keep Claiborne from failing out of school?
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