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Of the Jets beat guys, Rich Cimini is completely horrible, Bart Hubbuch has hilariously bad opinions, and Manish Mehta and Jenny Vrentas are both very good. Brian Costello and JP Pelzman are alright, I guess.
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Kalli posted:Peter King's got everyone involved in the NFL on speed dial but gently caress that, let's spend a page on how tough it is to get good WIFI at the airport. Where else would you get advice on what lattes to drink during Super Essex Conference field hockey and lacrosse?
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Mar 15, 2012 02:09
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Rap posted:Manish Mehta seems to get the most national scoops of any local beat writer anywhere, I think. Any idea how often he's right? Not like in terms of a spreadsheet, but he's usually pretty good. He was the guy who initially reported the Holmes/Burress/Mason rebelling against Schottenheimer/Sanchez stuff early last season that everyone called fake...and which turned out to be dead on the money.
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Mar 15, 2012 23:51
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GD_American posted:Darrel Rovell is the only high-profile Twitter douchebag I know on ESPN, and most of that's from his CNBC time. Every few months the ESPN-NY Mets beat guy Adam Rubin goes nuts on Mets ownership, but that feud predates his ESPN employment.
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Jul 10, 2012 15:42
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The Ledger is moving Jenny Vrentas from the Jets beat to the Giants beat 
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Sep 4, 2012 23:25
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superaielman posted:She's usually on point when I see her quoted on twitter. Do the Jets have any other not terrible writers? Cimini is the one I see besides for her, and he's kind of a tool. Manish Mehta gets good stories planted with him and Brian Costello is fine, but Vrentas was the best beat writer overall by a rather significant margin IMO. Cimini is...well, yeah.
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Sep 4, 2012 23:57
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FWIW it was widely believed at the time of the Tebow trade that he was going to be given a fair shot at the job. I would have been stunned to disbelief if you'd told me that not only would Sanchez play this bad and Tebow would never see the field, but that Sanchez would have ultimately ended up ceding the job to McElroy and not Tebow.
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Dec 19, 2012 01:09
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Two Tone Shoes posted:I don't know why you'd be surprised, Tebow is quite awful. It's just mindboggling that you'd trade for Tim Tebow and use him neither as a short yardage runner nor as media cover to usurp your increasingly unpopular starter. I'd ask what the point was but I don't think they ever knew either.
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Dec 19, 2012 22:51
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MMQB's problem is not the writing talent; Vrentas is great and Bedard has his moments although like most of the Patriots writers for the last 5-8 years he's an enormous Belichick sycophant. Though that's not his fault, nobody else actually survives on that beat because the Patriots dole out morsels of info for positive coverage and freeze out anyone who is neutral to negative, which they can do because they say nothing publicly.
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Jul 23, 2013 16:04
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I had to permanently mute Cimini because people kept retweeting his awfulness into my timeline. I wish I saved this quote but someone a couple years ago said that the Jets have the most miserable core of beat guys of any team on the planet (i.e., not the people like Jenny or Conor Orr that rotated through for a season or two and moved onto less green pastures).
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Aug 13, 2013 03:51
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Manish isn't getting the scoops he'd gotten during the past few years between Pettine leaving and Idzik trying to run a Belichick style ship, which has meant a lot more op-eds and a lot less interesting stuff.
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Aug 13, 2013 18:08
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Update on the absurd Jets media blackout: a couple of completely meaningless nuggets out of Jets camp like "Stephen Peterman working as the backup center" and "Sheldon Richardson working as a blocking specialist fullback" got tweeted by beat guys or retweeted from fans, which led the Jets to threaten everyone again, which in turn of course itself got reported on.
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Aug 21, 2013 17:51
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Ehud posted:I thought you were pro media blackout because you said the writers would be negative no matter what, but at least embarrassing leaks would stop. I think the blackout is stupid and ridiculous but the media reaction is even funnier; the harsh media reaction also largely isn't to the blackout but to the fact that Tannenbaum and Pettine are gone and they were handing Mehta and to a lesser extent Cimini and Martin the choice morsels, and they've been replaced by people who are shutting the hell up.
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Aug 22, 2013 23:12
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