[CBFF] Draft Coverage

[Kenny Claxton]

I did catch some of Keyshawn Johnson's work and he was very good. He may
wind up doing this after he hangs them up. Salisbury at least was fired by
Espn-am 1000 and not a moment too soo. He was an awful qb, an awful analyst
and apparently a perv according to reports.

On 4/30/07, Tom Shannon <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com [mailto:cbff-
> > bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Madsen
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:48 AM
> > To: CBFF
> > Subject: Re: [CBFF] Draft Coverage
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> > Let me say it again, in the same way the Sun-Times sports coverage
> > outshines the Tribune's, the NFL Network's Draft coverage outdid
> > ESPN's.  I have so little use for the eastern sports programming
> > network these days.
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> Jerry,
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> I don't get the NFL Network.  But I didn't think ESPN did a bad
> job.  Their
> main team of Kiper, Mortenson and Berman covered things from a lot of
> angles.  Keshawn Johnson was surprisingly good.  In fact, there were
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> instances when I think he irritated Kiper because, when he disagreed with
> him, he did it for very well-defined, logical reasons.  Michael Smith
> surprised me as well.  He really had a good grasp on what each
> organization
> was thinking in the first round.
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> But the guy I really loved was Jaworski.  They let him show film of some
> of
> the prospects where he could specifically show strengths and weaknesses in
> the breakdown.  I can never get enough of that stuff.
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> The second day was the best when most of the time was spent listening to
> Jaworski, Mortenson, Kiper and Suzy Kolber talk about various NFL related
> issues and the state of the league in general.  All of the prospects were
> minor but the conversation was great.  They did it without a lot of the
> loud
> yelling that seems to characterize the programming during the week.  I was
> glued to my TV and I consider it to be a day well spent.
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> The only two drawbacks were Steve Young and Sean Salisbury.  Young came
> across as too loud and obnoxious.  Salisbury was... well... Salisbury.
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> What was it that you specifically didn't like?
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> Tom S.
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