Stunning Omission By Peter King
October 17th, 2011
For those out of the loop, famous Sports Illustrated NFL writer Peter King, who also is an analyst on NBC-TV football broadcasts, NFL Radio and more, writes a gigantic column Monday Morning Quarterback column for SI.com. It’s several thousands of words on everything King thinks fans need to know out of the previous day’s NFL games — and a little bit more.
It’s a great column, and clearly King stays up all night writing it before it posts on Monday morning.
But something shockingly was missing from King’s column today. There was not one mention of Tanard Jackson.
Jackson was home last Monday finishing out more than a year suspended by the NFL for substance abuse. Then he gets reinstated, attends a few practices and flourishes in the starting lineup Sunday against arguably the best offense in the NFL.
There’s no question that Jackson’s story was one of the more stunning in NFL this season, complete with Hollywood storylines of getting an early interception and having to leave the game for a spell with cramps, yet not a peep from King in his all-encompassing column.
Joe respects and likes King, but this was either a major screwup or just evidence that the Bucs are nothing more than an annoying afterthought for the national media.
Either option sucks.
October 17th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Joe,
Do you have anything yet on the post’s and twitters saying we picked up Chad Spann? HE is reporting per his twitter that he is on the plane to london. Sorry do not mean to hijack this newstory. Just wandered what Joe might have heard on the Chad Spann signing.
Joe’s on it. In the future, please don’t bust out a comment that’s totally off topic. And always remember: Joe’s about topics, not transactions. Thanks. –Joe
October 17th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Unless you are the Saints, Eagles, Cowboys, Giants, Jets or Pats…nobody cares….Fact of life. Evertime we beat a good team, the response from the national media is “Well I guess the ***** werent as good as we thought”. Never, “Wow, the bucs are pretty good.” Should be used to it by now.
October 17th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
In my best Rodney Dangerfield “No respect, we don’t get no respect”
October 17th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
there’s most def hateful agenda against tha Bucs(BSPN and NBCease in particular). Being tha youngest team along with a black head coach doesn’t make things better.
October 17th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I think the biggest issue is not that you like Peter King or that he didn’t mention Tanard, but that you are giving King credit for being an NFL Insider, X’s and O’s guy, or something other than a guy that casually gazes at headlines, watches highlights, looks at a few stat lines and then writes his column.
Peter King, afterall was the same guy that predicted the Bucs go 2-14 in 2010 despite being a very young team that finished 3-6 in the last 9 games of the same year under a rookie QB. Any dunderhead with any credibility would realize in the natural order of progression that the team would improve, but not King. Don’t give this guy too much credit.
October 17th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I think it’s more important to draw attention to something else that he said:
”I think Mike Florio and I are getting the hang of nailing each other pretty good on Friday night,” ~Peter King
THAT IS WORD-FOR-WORD from his column today.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
No one will give the Bucs any respect because of the mistake riddled play. They are winning but it’s sloppy and compared to the surgical teams the Bucs are inferior in terms of scheme. When the Bucs are close to getting attention they blow it or look bad. So no they will not be a household team and it doesn’t matter. You can’t blame the media for that. They don’t make any money talking about nonfactor teams. Who would you talk about, Rodgers 6+ 300 yard games with highlights galore or Freeman to Williams for 10 yards? I hate ESPN but the Bucs aren’t explosive, attractive, or appealling enough to become a name. Its no ones fault.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Joe,
We never get any respect? What are you thinking man. I think the highlights f us playing the saints was maybe 20 seconds this morning. But i see the first games being talked about on Bspn are about 2 losing teams shegals and cowgirls. Course no one’s gonna talk about us. It’s always “The (insert team here) had an off game and lost to the bucs” Not “The bucs are a good team that played well and won this game.” Whenever we beat a good team its the other team that beat itself. If we beat the packers in 4 weeks what do you think ESPN will say?
October 17th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Joe’s right. What Tanard accomplished is nothing short of unprecedented. It’s simply amazing that he was able to play tha well yesterday. Mr. Jackson already got my applogy earlier. I wont doubt him again.
For King to ignore that Story doesn’t just insult the Bucs, it greatly discredits King’s body Of work. That was a once ever event. When your job is to report football, you don’t overlook those.
October 17th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
d clark:
Shame on you. If you would break yourself from the mental bondage BSPN tries to force upon innocents and watched the NFL Network this morning, all games were given equal airtime.
Free yourself. Be a man!
October 17th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
even his takes on coffee suck
October 17th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
The best was the highlight that CBS showed on NFL Tonight, or whatever their evening Sunday NFL show is called. I would have showed one of the EG long runs, or maybe Benn’s 64 yard TD. Even Parker in the end zone. Nope, they talked about it almost being impossible to win three in a row on the road, showed Brees throw the last int while trying to, and then said it is impossible to win three in a row. That my firneds is Bucs coverage. Who cares though, let our young Bucs be the under dog…they seem to play better when they are.
BTW Architeck, I just mentioned three plays that stand up to the highlight reel for the rest of the teams, so I am calling BS on your riddled with bad play crap. I would say the Saints 4 turn overs could have been shown from a Bucs persopective as well. Plenty of highlights in all but the loss to SF. Agin though, I do not care about the national media. The crowd was noisy and into it, just like the old days of blackouts. We may not have all the fans in the stands, but the ones that show are awesome!
October 17th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Sloppy wins?? But then when the pack wins while allowing the opposition to score over 40 points it’s not sloppy?
October 17th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
It’s all part of the Giant Anti-Bucs Media Conspiracy.
October 17th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
1. That is a giant story he missed when King usually gets off on stories like Tanard Jackson’s.
2. Also, unless I missed it, he went totally in-depth about Payton getting injured but nothing about our assitant coach, Lake. That’s another quirky thing he usually goes nuts for but did not cover. It’s bizarre enough that one coach got injured at a game, but then also two?
3. Unless the NFL Network upgraded their highlights, the highlights were not equal. I only saw an interview with Drew Brees at the end of the Bucs/Saints highlights; not one with Josh Freeman. Freeman was the winning quarterback … that is who should be highlighted; end of story. I could care less if Brees is more veteran or has won a Super Bowl. Granted I’m biased toward Freeman, but if you’re going to have an interview clip of the quarterback from the losing team, you should also have one from the winning team, too. Otherwise, it’s not balanced.
October 17th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Look, we just got our cajones handed to us in San Francisco. Yes we came back and beat a really good Saints team but it’s gonna take time for people to write that Frisco game off as an abberation. Stats are for losers but that’s all the pundits care about and statistically we just don’t look that good. We beat the Bears in London and come back and beat the Saints at their house….there will be major buzz.
October 18th, 2011 at 9:26 am
I will give ESPN and the likes, a small amount of credit in that they are consistent. They consistently dont care about the Bucs whether we win or lose. Of course it pisses you off if they don’t show us stepping over the saints…but I’m also glad they didnt make a hugh deal of us getting train-wrecked by the 49ers. We can beg for coverage time when we win, and want everyone to forget about us when we lose. That 49er game was stacked with highlights…against us. They couldve had a field day if they truely “hated” us like some of you are saying..we are a victim of our success just like we are a victim of our regressions. #BUCNATION
October 18th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Hey Joe
Before you jump all over the NFL channel band wagon, you should really look at the air time and interveiws these guys are giving.Granted they are a little better covering the Bucs but not much.I watch the channel every day and think most of the hostes are also anti-Buc. Just my opinon.