Quote:ehhh Lynch does that for media, he loves the media, thats the difference. People eat up the hoopla like deflate gate and "I'm just here so i won't get fined". The media loves, that, he loves that, the NFL loves that. Thats press. Blackmon either burned too many bridges while in jackonville, or the local media simply turned on him because of the off field stuff and they jumped the gun too early on saying he won't play again for the Jaguars. 

 

Im not defending Blackmon, and I'm not too sure at this point if he plays again. I just don't like being lied to, and the position those local media figures are in, they are in no position to state their opinions as fact, then try and backtrack when they know they are wrong. Justin Blackmon is still on a year long suspension, we should know in a month or so if he will ever come back in the league. 

 

I think the issue with Mark Long is that he stated an opinion and that opinion got reported as fact, not completely by him.  Dempsey gave that story legs.  So did Alfie and other outlets that picked up a tweet about Long's comments during a radio show interview.  In the end, it was just Long's opinion.  He tried to spin it in a way that implied he was getting that info from insiders, but clearly that wasn't the case.  As soon as his feet were put to the fire, he couldn't get away from the story fast enough.

 

To their credit, most of the media in Jacksonville, including the official television station and MOST of the official radio guys didn't touch this story.  Same with the team website.  Oehser couldn't verify anything from the story. 

 

So, it came down to 1 guy just speculating, and a couple of others looking to get that breaking story they could run with to generate clicks and ratings. 

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