Quote:Nobody is asking 90 guys to do anything. 1 man is going to have a show, he is the only one who has to do anything. If he allows himself to be distracted by it all, then he probably wont make the team and that will be his own fault.

 

3 the last 4 teams on Hard Knocks made the playoffs. The evidence strongly suggests its not that big of a deal.

 

 

You can't have it both ways. Either a camera crew following you around at home as part of a reality TV show is a major distraction or it isn't. If it's not a distraction for multiple guys selected for a camera crew to follow them around to watch their daily lives as part of Hard Knocks, then how can it be different for Sam?

 

Just because they edit it together for a 1 hour show that focuses mainly on football, doesn't mean those cameras in those players lives are any less intrusive at the time than the ones that will follow Sam.

A football show dedicated to one team who will occassionally shadow a specific player is much different than a player coming into the league who has done squat getting a show. That would cause a distraction in the locker room for sure. There have been off the record, published remarks already, and has been pointed out already as well, The Rams basically put the kibosh on it too.

 

Add in the fact that the team would get bombarded with questions when the show did start by media. You think they want to answer a multitude of questions each day on a player who has done nothing about his own show? There's a reason it got nixed.

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